Khan expects 150,000 buys for Judah fight Posted on Jun 15, 2011 WBA light-welterweight champion Amir Khan has revealed he expects to get 150,000 buys on British pay-per-view channel Primetime for his upcoming unification clash with Zab Judah. Primetime will screen Khan vs Judah live on their on their Sky platform at channel 480, Virgin On Demand and via a live stream for Internet subscribers for £14.95 and the Bolton man is expecting a large take up of subscriptions. Khan who did almost 70,000 buys on independent PPV channel in his last outing against Paul McCloskey when Sky Box Office dropped the fight in the final week reckons his clash against Judah is a much bigger sale. I think we can hit about 150,000 buys for this fight, Khan told Boxing Futures. Thats what were looking at because its a big fight. This content is protected Judah is a much bigger name than McCloskey and a lot more people know him. Plus its a unification fight and its in Vegas. To get 70,000 buys on Primetime after selling the fight in three days was massive. People couldnt even get through to book because they didnt have enough staff to man the lines. But now those who are already registered can just press the red button and theyre going to have more people working in the call centres in the build up to the fight. http://www.boxingfutures.com/news/0615-khan-expects-150000-buys-judah-fight
He's forgetting half that 70,000 that watched him against McCloskey will probably never watch another boxing match.
He's also forgetting he won't have any Sky build up at all, no irish fans to pad out the numbers and it's on at 4 in the morning.
he wishes.......does that count for worldwide?? maybe if it is he might get 100k... if not more like 50 odd...single not thousand. laz and his mates and khans nana and that
2 million Asians in the UK, If even just 10% of them buy PPV thats 200,000 PPVs and £3 million in the bank for Khan, Khan doesnt need Irish/English/ or others to buy his fights he just needs a tiny percentage of his Asian community to buy them. I dont think you realize the purchasing power of Asians in the UK. There are not many Asian sportsman of international repute and Khan will be backed to the hilt. Not just that but he will get buys in the middle east and Pakstan.
the figures will do the talking when they come out...... i bet they are nowhere near 10% of what you said.