Comments Thread For: Terence Crawford-Amir Khan Officially Set for April 20 ESPN PPV

[thack]

No, the biggest mismatch is crawfish vs. con. Hell Mikey would KO con easy. Mikey vs. crawfish would be an even fight.

Agreed , Mikey V Bud would be livewire

[BrometheusBob.]

Jesus at some point Khan's license is gonna have to be revoked for his own good. Dude lives to get KTFO.

[Michael1437]

What happened to all of the apps that were supposed to get rid of PPV?

[bigdunny1]

This is going to be a tough fight to sell as PPV. Face it Crawford is not a big draw the one time he fought on PPV it was a disaster (50K PPV buys with Postol) and that fight was one the public actually demanded and was a unification fight. You can't sell the fight on being competitive Khan isn't even top 10 ranked on most welterweight rankings. Crawford isn't a big name who can carry a PPV on his own especially a guy will be a huge underdog. So you are banking on Khan name value?

Casual fans only know Khan as the guy who got the holy spirit knocked out of him by Canelo 3 years ago and then disappeared from the American Public. Hardcore fans know Khan as the guy who's been beaten and KO'd multiple times and is more known for his losses and social media meltdowns with his wife cheating on him and him hitting on a ****** then he is for anything positive in the ring. And you asking hardcore or casual fans to fork over 60-75 bucks? smh

[jjsmyth87]

Crawford will sell 100k again. Who's actually going to buy this?

Arum built him up but he can't get him to the next level. Even Manny got out of there lol

Crawford bemavidez did huge ratings for ESPN, in fact it was the most watched fight in all of boxing in 2018. Considering Bemavidez isn't well known outside of hardcore boxing fans, that means Crawford has become a big star and is ready for ppv. Although Khan isn't as good as he once was, he's only loss in years was to Canelo in a fight many had him winning before the expected by everyone ko. Like him or not Khan is a top welterweight and does big numbers both in the UK and USA. Some of you guys trash Top Rank and Top Rank fighters no matter what the situation is, simply because you don't like Bob Aru, for whatever reason, and swing on pbc fighters nuts no matter what just because al Haymon is black. Pathetic

[BritishBoxing92]

Don’t really see the point in this fight being made, but okay if it attracts public interest and ends up being an entertaining fight then why not?

[bigdunny1]

So because two fighters are undefeated makes it better fight? Yeah right! Garcia/Spence is the biggest mismatch of the year!

Are you nuts! Say what you want but that's a fight between 2 prime undefeated consensus top 10 P4P ranked fighters. Spence will be favored because of size but Mikey has way more a shot of winning then Khan does because he is a elite fighter. Khan isn't on any credible top 10 rankings...at welterweight let alone P4P. And he's damaged goods. He's not only lost many times but been knocked out many times and the last one was maybe the most brutal KO you will ever see. Whatever you thought he was as a fighter 3 years ago Canelo beat that out of him. He is now a damaged shell of what he was. He was given a weak punching tailor made opponent to look good against his last fight and got dropped. His chin isn't holding up against Crawford or any top fighter.

[jjsmyth87]

This is going to be a tough fight to sell as PPV. Face it Crawford is not a big draw the one time he fought on PPV it was a disaster (50K PPV buys with Postol) and that fight was one the public actually demanded and was a unification fight. You can't sell the fight on being competitive Khan isn't even top 10 ranked on most welterweight rankings. Crawford isn't a big name who can carry a PPV on his own especially a guy will be a huge underdog. So you are banking on Khan name value?

Casual fans only know Khan as the guy who got the holy spirit knocked out of him by Canelo 3 years ago and then disappeared from the American Public. Hardcore fans know Khan as the guy who's been beaten and KO'd multiple times and is more known for his losses and social media meltdowns with his wife cheating on him and him hitting on a ****** then he is for anything positive in the ring. And you asking hardcore or casual fans to fork over 60-75 bucks? smh

If he's not a big draw how come his fight with benavidez was the most viewed fight in all of boxing last year? You can't say because benavidez so face the fact that he's one of the biggest draws in boxing and this is a ppv fight. Your one of those ppl I was talking about in my above post

[kevin-novice]

How do UK buy it.? Sky box office?

[bigdunny1]

If he's not a big draw how come his fight with benavidez was the most viewed fight in all of boxing last year? You can't say because benavidez so face the fact that he's one of the biggest draws in boxing and this is a ppv fight. Your one of those ppl I was talking about in my above post

Are you ****** there is a huge difference doing good ratings on cable tv then doing PPV numbers. Crawford did huge numbers on HBO then flopped bad his only PPV against Postol. Hell GGG did even better cable numbers and still flopped TWICE on PPV doing 150K PPVs against Lemieux and 160K PPVs against Jacobs. Both better fights with a much bigger cable tv Star in GGG. Getting folks to watch a fight when they already have that Cable channel and it costs nothing to tune in is a big difference then getting folks to fork over $50+ to watch them fight. This fight won't do well on PPV book it.