Khan vs McCloskey

[spud_gun]

16th April at the MEN in Manchester.

It'll be on normal Sky not PPV



**** undercard with an iffy main event. Not PPV worthy. Thank **** Sky have seen the light and not made this a PPV fight.

[Tee]

Nice move. I know nothing about McCloskey - is he a serious threat or will this be the 'easy' fight following Amir's fight v Maidana.

[spud_gun]

Nice move. I know nothing about McCloskey - is he a serious threat or will this be the 'easy' fight following Amir's fight v Maidana.

He's a decent enough fighter but Khans at least a level above him. He's not faced anyone in Khans class and he certainly doesn't have the power that Maidana has.

Should be an easy fight for Khan if he's had a decent camp and got his head screwed on and is not looking ahead to a unification fight against Mekon Bradley.

[Tee]

He's a decent enough fighter but Khans at least a level above him. He's not faced anyone in Khans class and he certainly doesn't have the power that Maidana has.

Should be an easy fight for Khan if he's had a decent camp and got his head screwed on and is not looking ahead to a unification fight against Mekon Bradley.

[Daniel 7]

Sounds like a fight for the UK fans to go to for an Amir win.

[spud_gun]

Fight is now not being shown on Sky Sports at all

Looks like team Khan took the hump with Sky's decision not to make this a PPV event.

[Gibbo]

Its that type of greed that pisses me off with some sportsmen, take their ball in just because Sky wont show it as a PPV, he should be grateful he is talented enough for his fights to be shown on tele at all. Can't Sky show it anyway? Surely Khan is under a contract of some sort.

[red g]

Primetime will pick it up probably?

[Rudo]

What time does the fight start?

[Rudo]

Fight is now not being shown on Sky Sports at all

Looks like team Khan took the hump with Sky's decision not to make this a PPV event.

FFS, ******s!!

[Tee]

What a bellend Khan is. He has thrown his toys out of the pram it I hope Sky just bin him altogether. This was a great opportunity to give the fans in the UK something back but he has clearly become too greedy for his own good.

[Chris]

Its on primetime, laughable, it'll get about 100 buys.

This is what happens when you're surrounded by greedy, yes men who have no clue about boxing.

[Rudo]

What a bellend Khan is. He has thrown his toys out of the pram it I hope Sky just bin him altogether. This was a great opportunity to give the fans in the UK something back but he has clearly become too greedy for his own good.

****in disgrace alright. £££

[Chazza]

What a joke, who is going to pay £10 - £15 for this??

Looking at the full card I doubt most pubs will bother either

Amir Khan bids Sky deal goodbye as title defence against Paul McCloskey is dropped by channel

Sky television have pulled the plug completely on Ami Khan's world title fight against Paul McCloskey this Saturday night.

Sunday's failure to come to terms for a normal Sky Sports broadcast – following the network's decision to axe the pay-per-view screening – leaves the promotion at Manchester's MEN Arena in financial turmoil.

Khan's fourth defence of his light-welterweight championship is likely now to be relegated to the fringe Primetime Cable channel, which has been picking up Carl Froch’s recent Super Six world super-middleweight title fights.

Sky had hoped the promoters would accept a token fee for a regular channel slot in return for the wider audience which would build Khan’s projected world title unification bout with America’s Tim Bradley into a midsummer pay-TV bonanza.

But with Northern Ireland’s unbeaten Paul McCloskey already having been paid a reduced purse of £100,000 and Khan accepting a £1 million pay cut, down to £250,000, Khan and Hatton Promotions appear ready to accept a marginally higher bid from Primetime. This will supplement the American rights fees for a tape-delay screening paid by HBO.

A sell-out 16,000 crowd – which looks probable with almost 14,000 seats sold already – might enable the event to break even so the show is expected to go on. But this saga is sure to damage the relationship between Khan and Sky.

The implications for televised boxing, and the big pay days for top fighters that go with it, are serious also.

Behind a back-drop of the mega-millions earned by the likes of Manny Pacquaio, Sky have been propping up the business here. Even Ricky Hatton’s high profile fight with Pacquaio registered just 300,000 pay-TV hits on Sky Box Office, while advance sales for this Khan-McCloskey bout had reached barely 50.

Khan’s team are aggrieved that their TV partners moved the goal-posts so late but Sky were also concerned by the lack of quality remaining on the partially collapsing undercard being put together by Hatton.

A proposed heavyweight clash between Britain’s Tyson Fury and Hasim Rahman, who once knocked out Lennox Lewis, fell through and Matthew Macklin pulled out of a championship fight.

That, following the fiasco of Audley Harrison’s timid pay-per-view challenge for David Haye’s world heavyweight title, has deepened Sky’s concern that their subscribers have not been getting value for money.

Primetime figures for this fight are unlikely to exceed by many, if any, the roughly 50,000 viewers for Froch’s exploits.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/oth...McCloskey.html

[PTP]

lol - i was looking forward to watching this on sky - purely thinking great a 'decent' title fight without paying for it

****ing primtime though **** that **** off.