IF ITV show Khan's next fight do you still think Mitchell will be on sky box office?

Khan has infinitely more fans than Mitchell, and he did poor ppv sales, cant see Mitchell doing more than a couple of dozen.

 

If he tears it up on Sky against Katsidis and wins, it could potentially raise his profile enough to get on SBO, as long as they aren't expecting outstanding numbers.

 

If i remember rightly Khan and Warren were all with setanta then they left and went with sky and part of the deal was Khan to go PPV but it wasn't Sky's choice. I may be wrong on that but i remember a fuss about his first fight on sky being a ppv.

 

it's not really to do with khan being with HBO, it's to do with ITV potentially buying the rights to show this event live on terrestrial t.v. to a much wider audience than sky can provide on ppv. Warren possibly putting this on ppv probably wont affect khan on itv one jot.
If anything it will affect warren if it is on ppv.

 

Those are not exclusive things.

 

Too soon for Mitchell to headline a PPV card.....far too soon.

 

What are you talking about? How do you think HBO suddenly own UK television rights to Khan's fights? I assure you they don't....

 

i accept all of that, but this thread is all about if itv show the khan fight, will mitchell be on ppv. Money aside, let's say itv do buy the rights, and shows the fight, you can't tell me warren would put mitchell on ppv, just to **** khan off? Mitchell is well known in boxing circles, but he isn't a name like khan is to joe public, so to suggest warren would do that to put a spanner in the works is a bit silly tbh as in terms of numbers there isn't a comparison to be made.
warren knows the score, he is trying to build a couple of new stars since joe, and khan left, chucking kev straight on ppv to bomb ain't gonna happen.

 

No they wouldn't because HBO don't own the UK rights. Why would HBO have brought rights to broadcast something in a country where they don't broadcast?!

 

You are so far wrong its unbelievable. Whoever wants to buy US fights over here buys them from the relevant promoter. Just like every other sport in the world deals with the governing body for the respective sport, not the host broadcaster. If a foreign broadcaster wants to show the Premier League, they deal with the Premier League, not sky.

That is why when we get UK fights the graphics are different, as we see what Top Rank/Golden Boy/whoever provide for international viewers. It comes with commentary, though sky usually scrub that out and provide their own-Setanta didn't tend to unless it was like Calzaghe or something.

Saturday's Klitschko fight on Primetime was the international feed pictures and commentary. Any english speaking countries who viewed the fight would have seen exactly the same we did.

As cobbler said, why on earth would HBO or Showtime care who is showing boxing in other countries around the world-they are only fussed about North America.

 

It's only ESPN Friday Fight Night that sells its rights like that. Showtime and HBO only own the rights for the US only (Showtime also buy the right for Canada as well for Super Channel) so the rights are left with the promoters.

 

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Talking about your favourite subject i see :hey:good:silly:deal

 

Khan can't sell. His last 2 fights flopped after the prescott whopping.

 

If you're seriously making this claim (and lets ignore the puzzle of why HBO would buy broadcast rights for Khan for countries they don't broadcast in, something I don't remember them ever doing for any other fighter), then you need to back it up.

When was this contract signed between HBO and Khan? Source please?