In real terms Amir is paying McCloskey out of his own pocket but he’s okay with that

Also, if they had the choice of paying Rahman 100K and having it on PPV, don't you think they'd do that to get 900K more instead??

They aren't stupid, like many of you think. Undercard budget had **** all to do with whether it was the PPV decider or not.

 

"There was a fixed budget"

Well when it looked like it was going tits-ooop UNFIX THE BUDGET and spend every penny to save the show.

They thoght they could slide it, but SKY called their bluff and Team Khan were like............atsch

There should have been a contingency in place, its boxing - things **** up.

Monumental **** up.

 

laz u are sayin 1 thing and everybody eles is sayin another, face it u can only put an undercard together if u have the money, no such thing as a budget look wheres it got him now, more cash to rahman and it would of been on, get that into your skull everyone on ere are sayin they are inexperienced stingy ****s, which is true, laz are u still not going

 

All bickering aside, the main reason this has got so messed up is greed from team Khan and Sky. Sky know they have several pay per views lined up for the next few months (DeGale/Groves, Haye/Klitschko, Khan/Bradley etc)

Khan/McCloskey, even with the best touted undercard, isn't near the standard of any of the other cards. Times are tight and sure you might make more money short-term from ppv, but you also risk losing potential customers in the future and an increase in Sky Box Office events could well alienate the casual fans.

I don't know what the solution is because as is clear from this thread alone, boxers like Amir Khan and McCloskey in this case can make much more fighting on pay per view. But it isn't ideal and limits the number of fights everyone can have. Because of this, even average domestic boxers like John Murray and Matt Macklin are being made to wait at least 6 months for every fight.

I must say I prefer the old fashioned way where boxers earned money by fighting regularly rather than just selling a big show a couple of times a year.

 

Shouldn't have made such a sh!t fight then Khan

 

Khan's a good fighter and a decent lad, but he needs to set aside family from business now, tell his father and his uncles to kindly back the fúck away, and get himself a real promoter, so this shít won't happen. I'm glad he left Frank Warren because Warren would have never put him in a ring with Maidana. But his own promotion team will run him into the ground. Khan PPV'd against Prescott, ***an, Barrera, before he ever won a world title, he's just come back from the states off his biggest and most difficult win and is fighting an unbeaten European Champ with a huge Irish/N Irish following and can't sell toffee, something has gone horribly wrong with who ever put this together because this event has been a complete train wreck.

Golden Boy are surprisingly quiet about this fiasco, considering Khan is one of their hottest assets you would have thought they would have intervened when it started to go pear shaped.

 

Slap, if they could save 900,000 by giving Rahman 100,000, don't you think they would do it? Come on, they aren't that damn stupid!

As I said, it wasn't the budget that was the problem!! How are you so sure it was the budget? I don't understand who has been feeding everyone about all this ****.

It seems you have all been brainwashed to assume that Khan's Team is just stealing all the money and not paying anyone else a penny.

Contingency? Like what? If Macklin chooses to take a World title and Rees pulls out with injury, what contingencies can be taken?

For the last time, the budget was not the damn problem!

 

i just remembered ortiz vs berto will be on that night!

thank god for that!

 

Be honest, did you read my post which I replied to you?

Because it sounds like it's back to square one with this:

 

Which post was that Laz?

Look I'm not knocking Khan. As I said in my post, there's no real answer or solution to this. PPV clearly makes the most money for Amir Khan, but this, compared to other fights coming up, isn't really ppv worthy even with the original undercard.

This thread basically sounds like we should praise Amir Khan for taking a pay cut on a fight where he would have made far more money than he realistically deserves. No hating, that's just the truth.

 

what were the ppv buys for the maidana fight?

 

Even that was a **** up because it was originally Gr8 Britain v the World then about 3 days before got changed to King Khan and the Brit Pack

I know pull outs and cancellations are always likely in boxing but Sky need to remodel their pay per view structure I think.

 

I'll find it for you.

Bro, I don't care if you knock Khan, it really doesn't bother me.

What's bothered me is so many have been accusing the PPV fallout on the budget of the undercard when the budget was absolutely NOTHING to do with it! - so where's the greed? I haven't seen an ounce of evidence suggesting the undercard died due to the budget, and people on here are saying that I'm just hugging Khan and talking ****. I'm just stating what I know. - No one has given any evidence to say that Khan's team has been cheap.

Neither was Haye/Harrison, but 700K still paid for it.

There's unjustifiable criticism of Team Khan on here sometimes, and if people are blind to see that, then there's really no hope because I'm sure I've said these sentiments 5 times at the least, today.

 

The thing is it's not unjustified. You can point to this and that about this particular event but what it always goes back to, for me at least, is the fact that Amir Khan moved to Sky Box Office as a novice and after struggling against a shot version of Michael Gomez.

Then he gets blasted out in a minute against an unknown foreigner and Joe Public has still been expected to cough up £15 every time King Khan decides to put on a show?

Now Team Khan have something that's gone against them for whatever reasons and we're supposed to feel for them because they're losing a bit of money on it? Come on Laz really?

 

I read afew boxing forums but this Laz guy has to be the biggest nut hugger iv ever seen, what a twat.