Khan VS McCloskey, April 16th, MEN Arena

Fell through, due to the floods

 

how the **** can katsidis fall through but hatton/alvarez is still on?

 

I really found Khan's excuses for every fight not happening irritating last night. The "I'll fight anyone" logic is honourable, but not when your management aren't getting it done. Personally, if I were Khan, I'd stick my head around the door and tell them to get something together if he wants to fight one of these people. Otherwise, he's having something to do with it not happening. This "they want too much money" issue doesn't fly.

 

Because Hatton and Alvarez wern't affected by floods?

 

khan says he is willing to fight anyone. seems to me the mccloskey fight is dead.

i can't see kats happening so my money is back on prescot now. he knows it will sell, he (misguidedly IMO) thinks he will win. plus it will remove the blot on his career.

 

Prescott or Murray would be great

 

I could be way off the mark on this one, but I'm starting to think Sky won't allow them to take Prescott. Or at least, wouldn't put it on PPV.

Team Khan are obviously looking for the cheapest option, and Prescott wouldn't be demanding as much as the rest. I think if they could, they would have already got him for the fight.

 

http://www.fanhouse.co.uk/2011/01/30/boxing-how-amir-khan-upset-paul-mccloskey-as-fight-talks-broke/

McCloskey told Fanhouse UK: "Their demands were too much and they made it impossible to accept the fight. When we rejected the first offer, they came back with an improved offer which didn't really improve.

"They're very disrespectful toward fighters and they have to respect the man that's going in there to fight them - they have to value him. We're talking about world championship boxing and there has to be a line, a fair line at that."

They were very awkward to work with. They are going to find out, when you're fighting people for world titles, there are two boxers in there and they deserve good money," claims McCloskey.

"Obviously with Khan being the champion he's going to get more, but the terms I believe I should be getting were a lot less than what was being given.

"My promoter Barry Hearn has loads of experience promoting world title fights, these (Khan's team) is their first time promoting a big fight themselves - they're still learning the ropes and Barry thought it was a dreadful offer."

 

This is worrying for Khan...they might end up with no opponent in April!

 

This is a pretty amusing read.

Katsidis's trainer, Brendon Smith

"Everyone knows it has been of interest to us and we have negotiated once before to fight Amir Khan last year," Smith told AAP.

"There's been a couple of occasions there that the fight just hasn't happened because the offer has been lower.

"Amir Khan said Michael didn't want to fight him and we got a little bit upset about it, because it wasn't about the fight, it was about the money."

Sorry to tell you Brendon but there is even less on the table this time!

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport...ampion-amir-khan/story-e6frep5o-1225997611554

 

It looks at the moment to be going the same way as last year. Where they ended up on only 2 bouts due to inability to find an opponent for July 31st.

If HBO have pencilled him in for July 30th this year to fight Bradley, there is no way they can fit a fight in unless it happens on that April date

 

Gazanta breaking news!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Amir khan will take on undisputed heavyweight champion of great britain david '*****' haye in a catchweight 180lbs, live on sky box office for a tidy sum of £39.99!

 

I seem to remember Khan's team offering Katsidis the same money he earned in the Mitchell fight, which was around 400k, and they declined. Can anyone confirm this for me? Laz?

 

Well, for the Mitchell fight he got 80% of $515k, around £260K. For Marquez he got around £350k.

If we are to believe Mccloskeys & Petersons teams who say the offers on the table are around $200K dollars (£125K), then there is no way it's going to happen IMO.

They have tried previously to secure Katsidis, for the planned July 31st last year. As referenced by Brendan in that news article, it fell through due to the offer being too low. He makes an obvious suggestion that, due to it appearing that they are not willing to pay a great deal for this bout, and the fact last time they offered little, it's very possible that them stating they are going to "Talk to Katsidis", is more of a means of getting other lower profile fighters in the UK (Murray) to come to terms.