The case for Khan....

[The Gambler1981]

1.5 million US buys equals 135 million in revenue.

Anyone who thinks a promotion with Khan is going to sell as well as one with Hatton is crazy. Floyd Khan might max out around 600k buys @ $14.99 per for 9 million in revenue.

Of course the UK broadcaster takes half of that leaving this mythical UK PPV pot-o-gold sitting at about 4.5 million bucks to split up. Not really **** when one guy is carrying a 32 million dollar guarantee and the other guy is such a spoiled b*tch he surely believes he deserves 5-6 million himself.

All numbers aside - the fact that the ****ty Mayweather PPV's have done well in the past is because they have done a good job taking guys like Cotto, Ortiz or Guerrero and making you like them and turning it into a good guy underdog vs. big bad champ matchup. Maidana can play that role as well - and probably much better than the other guys.

You put Amir Khan in there and you basically have two c*nts scissoring each other until Khan's G-spot is exposed.

Let's not even get into the fact that if Khan is announced as an opponent his ****** ass will do everything possible to make fans care about him even less than they already do with his false bravado and delusional self evaluations.

Aren't British PPV 15 pounds, which 1 pound like like $1.64 or 1.65. That is $24.60 which times 600k is pushing $15,000,000

[Hitman932]

Aren't British PPV 15 pounds, which 1 pound like like $1.64 or 1.65. That is $24.60 which times 600k is pushing $15,000,000

Not sure what the conversion is, however you still have to halve that number. Plus it's probably taxed all to hell. Also I think 600k is generous.

Any way you cut it the entirety of the UK revenue basically covers Khan's purse and that's about it. It doesn't even make a dent in Showtime's #

The reality is that people in this thread are acting like Showtime has a magic formula that will calculate the PPV's and that there is a 0% chance of it being wrong.

Showtime is HOPING Amir Khan sells as well as he might have sold 2 or 3 years ago when he had some career momentum and hadn't lost embarrassingly three times.

They certainly don't know it. What they do know is that if they let Amir Khan fight anyone other than Mayweather he probably loses and goes bust for good anyway so they may as well cash him out in a fight where there is some kind of upside.

Putting Khan-Mayweather together and letting Floyd kick Amir's ass is probably better for Showtime long term than putting Maidana-Floyd together for marginally more buys and having Khan get his ass kicked by a Julio Diaz and get nothing at all out of him.

[- Ram Raid -]

Khan and Mayweather's last bouts were both broadcast on Boxnation which is a flat fee monthly subscription channel. It doesn't charge PPV.

[dc3383]

I personally thinks a Maidana fight does better numbers; but GB and Showtime see's something I don't with Khan I will be interested to see the numbers for it.

[The Gambler1981]

Not sure what the conversion is, however you still have to halve that number. Plus it's probably taxed all to hell. Also I think 600k is generous.

Any way you cut it the entirety of the UK revenue basically covers Khan's purse and that's about it. It doesn't even make a dent in Showtime's #

The reality is that people in this thread are acting like Showtime has a magic formula that will calculate the PPV's and that there is a 0% chance of it being wrong.

Showtime is HOPING Amir Khan sells as well as he might have sold 2 or 3 years ago when he had some career momentum and hadn't lost embarrassingly three times.

They certainly don't know it. What they do know is that if they let Amir Khan fight anyone other than Mayweather he probably loses and goes bust for good anyway so they may as well cash him out in a fight where there is some kind of upside.

Putting Khan-Mayweather together and letting Floyd kick Amir's ass is probably better for Showtime long term than putting Maidana-Floyd together for marginally more buys and having Khan get his ass kicked by a Julio Diaz and get nothing at all out of him.

I get your point, but still when comparing Khan to Maidana that amount is a bunch more than Maidana can bring from Argentina 7.5 million is still at least 7 million more than Maidana brings from his home country.

It is not like Khan is a surefire hit though, even at his peak I don't think he was any bigger in the US than Guerrero. It is more like making lemon-aid out of lemons