Ok from my understanding, it appears as though both Haye and Wlad were willing to fight each other in April of this year. However, Sky don't want to show two ppv's in the same month and have already promised Khan a date in April. So why would Sky give priority to Khan when.... - Khan doesn't even have an opponent named yet. - His fight in April is most likely going to be a tune up in preparation for a unification fight with Bradley/Alexander. - Khan is NOT a ppv draw in the UK. The last time he had to carry a ppv he did 30k buys against Kotelnik. I am convinced that Khan would not be able to do 500k+ buys unless he fought Hatton, Mayweather or Pacquiao. Sky will be lucky if Khan's April bout does 100k buys. - In contrast, Haye has proven himself to be a huge draw in the UK. Consistently doing over 500k buys. You add that to the fact that he's fighting the number one heavyweight in the world and you're almost guaranteed to be doing over 1 million buys. As far as the Wlad/Haye fight not happening, I can understand both perspectives. Wlad doesn't want to remain inactive for over 9 months during his prime. Fair enough. Haye on the other hand doesn't understand the logic in risking the most lucrative heavyweight fight since Lewis vs Tyson for the sake of a tune up bout against a fighter with only 14 professional fights. Personally, I really think that Sky has dropped the ball on this. Why turn down the most lucrative heavyweight bout since Lewis vs Tyson in favour of a Khan tune up fight? It makes no sense!!
I agree that Haye - Wlad is the fight, and I assume Sky know this. That's why I would guess that Khan already has a contracted date cemented with Sky in April. It makes sense considering both him and Golden boy have said several times they'll fight in April, in the summer and towards the end of the year. Even directly after Maidana. If Sky pulled the plug it would **** up Khan's/Goldenboy's plans and I imagine they would be eligible for compensation. Again, I'm just speculating!
I agree its all a load of BOLL*X! I hope Wlad was serious about having the 2 fights and Haye just bloody accepts Wlads offer of July 2nd and get this fight on!
Khan is a long term investment with Sky though and he has potential mega fights down the line. Haye wants out of boxing by October so they could cash in quick with Haye vs Wlad or they could hedge their bets and stand by Khan. I may be wrong but im pretty sure Khan is still the box office bread winner and Haye seriously hurt his reputation with the Harrison fight, Sky received a hell of a lot of complaints had to fork out a fair bit of £££ in refunds to angry customers for that fight.
both sky and rtl are let downs. sky wont do it in april,but rtl will. rtl wont do it in may or june,but sky will. **** these networks,just do it on free channel in uk,another channel in germany,or both just do hbo/showtime,and only do primetime for uk and germany.
Yeah unfortunately none of us know the details of Khan's contract with Sky. Nonetheless, Golden Boy also owns a piece of Haye. Surely they should recognise that Haye vs Wlad will make more money than Khan vs Peterson/Ortiz/Katsidis. It doesn't take a rocket science to figure out that Khan's fight in April won't sell ****. I agree Khan is a long term investment for Sky, which is precisely why he shouldn't be on ppv at this point in his career unless he's unifying the division or facing a huge name. They're harming his fan base by putting him on ppv when people aren't willing to pay to see him fight yet. Hatton spent years fighting on Sky Sports before he became a big enough name to fight on ppv. Seeing as though Haye is retiring in October it makes all the more sense to cash in on him whilst they still can. Whilst there was a public backlash to the Harrison debacle, most people held Audley responsible and not Haye. I don't think it would affect the numbers for Wlad vs Haye. It's the fight that the public are calling for.
People have taken these comments about the Khan fight to mean something it doesn't The Khan fight is not the reason April could not be made. Klit's could fight on the 30th only. The royal wedding is on the 29th. This makes the fight almost impossible even without Khan. Khan's fight on the 16th would mean they would have to promote Khan, then have 14 days to switch to promoting Haye taking the wedding into consideration. It just isnt feasible. That fight made Sky a fortune, however it did create a bit of bad press. If Sky could do it all again, they would still do the same thing, because it made them a huge sum of money.. and as ever, the public easily forgets. A mere few weeks later they did pretty well on the Khan PPV.
Wlad can only fight on April 30th. Sky doesn't want to broadcast it on that day because it would get less interest because of the royal wedding also happening on that day.
But they stand to make money from both, so I can't see them caring when either happens as long as it does. Also, bear in mind this fight only collapsed in the last couple of days, so Goldenboy won't even have had time to react properly yet, I imagine there's a fair bit going on behind the scenes.
I dont understnd this as david haye is a bigger ppv seller than Khan by a long shot, which is surprising giving that it was because of his sole win over the giant, amazing what one fight can do.
Looks like Sky doesn't give a crap about Haye anymore, and why would they. Haye has confirmed multiple times that he'll retire in 10 months. I completely understand that Sky has a vested interest in a long-term relationship with Khan over a Haye who appears to be disillusioned with his boxing career.