Comments Thread For: Hearn: Khan Won't Be Happy, Brook Calling The Shots

[Box-Office]

Not so sure Brook v Khan is on the scale of Froch/Groves 2 and have doubts that it would do 80k at Wembley stadium , yes it would be PPV 02 size I think.
It will be interesting to see what happens over the coming days and weeks but without doubt the no.1 welterweight in the uk at the the moment is Kell! So Khan will have to give it a go or fight a TOP guy and if Porter can't cement a rematch how about him??? Trouble is the Khan's won't they will always look for the easy route.

It won't be like Froch-Groves. That was something special, but it shall definitely do at the very least between 25-30 thousand. Khan did 18 000 vs a guy like McCloskey, so this can only be bigger.

[LacedUp]

Khan is more known, but if this gets made it will be a hugely pro-Brook crowd.

I'd guess Kell will have at least 70% of the crowd.

Probably more. I think most fight fans in Britain are forgetting that Khan is British

[LacedUp]

It won't be like Froch-Groves. That was something special, but it shall definitely do at the very least between 25-30 thousand. Khan did 18 000 vs a guy like McCloskey, so this can only be bigger.

It will easily do more than 25-30k.

I think it could do 50-60k after Kell has one more big win in the Autumn.

[Straightener]

Probably more. I think most fight fans in Britain are forgetting that Khan is British

I think amir himself has forgot he's britsh

[gmc_rfc_06]

Probably more. I think most fight fans in Britain are forgetting that Khan is British

I think it will be more too.

70% is the absolute least it will be, but it could easily be an 85-90% Brook crowd.

The TV didn't do it justice, you had to be there to realise just how heavily boo'd Khan was at Froch-Groves II. It was wild.

[swifty007]

Brook knocks Kan out. Thurman knocks Khan out. If Brook can beat a credible opponent like Thurman, JMM, or Bradley and Khan beats the ghost then Brook should win the Floyd sweepstakes. I think Alexander VS Khan is a toss up, and Alexander is a very difficult fighter to look good against so Khan may avoid him.

[JACK1190]

It will easily do more than 25-30k.

I think it could do 50-60k after Kell has one more big win in the Autumn.

For me that fight is better off at a smaller footie stadium like old Trafford or somewhere cause 80.000 is a big ask, Froch Groves 2 sold so well due to the first fight being controversial.

[TLC8]

Brook knocks Kan out. Thurman knocks Khan out. If Brook can beat a credible opponent like Thurman, JMM, or Bradley and Khan beats the ghost then Brook should win the Floyd sweepstakes. I think Alexander VS Khan is a toss up, and Alexander is a very difficult fighter to look good against so Khan may avoid him.

Brook-Khan job is a big "money" fight in the UK, nobody cares about Khan here in the states due to the fight not being competitive. Khan has ducked Bell for years, fans know this, and today this fight is not competitive. Many would like to believe it is based on who Khan was in 2010, the same way they thought Sergio Martinez was still the same fighter he'd always been, and he would give Cotto a Boxing lesson. When Khan gets knocked out, they will all jump off the bandwagon, and claim they all agreed all along Khan was a shot fighter who no longer could take a punch. Don't we find it strange Khan beats up a nobody at 147, and immediately cries out for the largest paydays in Boxing: he won't fight any of the top guys at 147 except Floyd and Pacquiao. Because Khan knows himself, that if he gets KO'd by Thurman, Guerrero, Provodnikov or Bradley, he never sniffs a Mayweather/Pacquiao sweepstakes ever. So he sits and hard sells the public without fighting, hoping they believe he's the same fighter from 2010. No chance. He was destroyed by Garcia and Peterson, doesn't want to trying redeeming that and won't talk about it.

[Wicky]

Brook knocks Kan out. Thurman knocks Khan out. If Brook can beat a credible opponent like Thurman, JMM, or Bradley and Khan beats the ghost then Brook should win the Floyd sweepstakes. I think Alexander VS Khan is a toss up, and Alexander is a very difficult fighter to look good against so Khan may avoid him.

That concept, "Floyd sweepstakes" is all about money. But, lil' Floyd is the one that makes the cash. Khan & Brook would both earn more from fighting a well promoted UK battle. Hearn's a good promoter, he'll know how best to develop the domestic battle for max revenue.

[TLC8]

That concept, "Floyd sweepstakes" is all about money. But, lil' Floyd is the one that makes the cash. Khan & Brook would both earn more from fighting a well promoted UK battle. Hearn's a good promoter, he'll know how best to develop the domestic battle for max revenue.

You seem to think you have promotional experience. Quit playing pretend. Both are large paydays. But to say you believe "a well promoted" UK fight makes more $$$ is to say you have a clue. Actually, a UK fight with Brook & Khan is the ONLY fight Khan deserves.... Barely. Even that fight is a big risk for Khan because when Brook blows him up in the ring, he can forget any other big payday in the US. Getting stretched out by Garcia, Peterson and Brook, basically closes the curtains on the Khan-job show.