An honest question to team khan and primetime (venusdiablo)....

Theres been adverts in the daily rags in the sports sections today.

 

About a 3rd/ 4th of a page.

 

There is a lot of advertising in the national press, there are TV adverts going out and there will be a number shown during the Fury vs Chisora fight, however it would be impossible for us to advertise on every channel all the time....

 

This fight appears to be practically invisible to the general public. Even Chisora Fury seems to be off the radar. It just goes to show how much Sky Sports News has an effect on fight publicity.

The entire Khan-Mayweather press nonsense which Team Khan used during the last few weeks in order to promote the fight using Mayweather's name seems to have failed aswell. Since it began I've had many different casual sports fans mention in conversation after seeing the stories, saying "They were saying in the paper Khan is going to fight Mayweather".. discussing it for a few minutes about what it said, and not one of them seemed to have taken notice of the fact it mentioned he was fighting on the 23rd against Judah.

 

Dude, the fights on at 3 in the morning, why would any casual sports fans want to stay up for that?? I consider myself a keen boxing fan but its only really the big ones I'll stay up for, Khan Judah doesn't do it for me yet.

As for Khan needing to worry about his UK fans, I disagree entirely, he's clearly gone for the US market and its probably fair to say is more well liked over there than here where we seem to resent successful sportsmen on the whole, so not surprising he's aiming for the US, sensible business move surely!

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You clearly haven't heard of such a thing called 'marketing budget', have you? Primetime is new, young, and doesn't possess the muscle that Sky has. Their promotion of fights will always be second best.

 

And honestly, this whole "Khan must think about the UK fans that made him" bull**** is overblown. The man would occasionally get jeered by his own fans on his own soil. See the Barrera fight. And last December when he was fighting an Argentinian who made it known it was an Argentina vs England thing, a lot of the UK fans were supporting him over Khan (lol). He's hated here more than he's loved. No one should blame him for wanting to make it in the US instead. A place where success is welcomed, not resented.

 

i agree, i have mates that would be more clued up than your casual fan and none of them knew about this fight when i invited them up to my gaf to watch it

 

To be fair, Primetime aren't Sky Sports, most people who watch sports watch SS, Khan burnt bridges with SS and thus he has no hype.

 

It should be looked at neutrally, Sky are just as equally at fault by making a statement to team khan saying we have no interest in the Judah or the Bradley fight therefore team khan HAVE to use primetime anyway.

I know the team had disagreements with sky but broken ties can always be mended and as far as I see it sky don't want anything to do with team khan anymore so it is not team khan that don't want to be on sky

 

i read the Edinburgh Evenign News ,and its not advertised in there .do you not thinkthat edinburgh boxing community would like to know that mr khan is fighting on saturday ,or dont they matter to you ?:scaredas:

 

was it a argentian v england thing ,or an argentine v uk think ? make your mind up