Sky sign Khan!!!

Sky sports channels are so over priced its not even funny. Their boxing events in the last few years have been ****. The odd Hatton PPV? Not alot else.

Since Hatton is done and near retirement they need a new PPV cash cow.

I dont mind paying for setanta. They put on alot of decent shows which feature Calzaghe and Haye (not to mention other events from america including great UFC cards).

 

Your right, all the best US fights are on Setanta. Cant remember the last decent overseas fight on Sky.

 

Lately theres been less and less WBU Warren fights.

His only WBU belt holder Is Michael Jennings.

 

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The Aisan Population of the UK is less than 2 million. At best 25% of that would watch the Khan fight so 500,000 of 6mil is not a great deal.

its not just aisans that watch Khan, theres not that much decent level sport on terriestrial tv, at prime time, so it gets allot of attention from sports fan in all corners. plus Khan is the hottest prospect in world boxing.

 

not if Murray goes to ITV with Hennasy

 

25% is generous. from personal experience make that about 5%.

 

500,000 is A GREAT DEAL considering that the margarito/cotto fight sold 450,000 in America where they have a much bigger population, and that khan is not even fighting for any legitimate title or against a world/european/domestic class fighter.

 

its a great deal when your selecting from a 2% of the uk population.

 

So lets turn this around a bit...out of Sky and warren who do you think approached who?warren approached Sky or did sky approach warren ?

 

Well sky hate his guts.

 

if nelson will be at ringside giving us his insightful commentary i'd rather not watch

 

bout time he stepped up

 

It wouldnt surprise me if he puts him on PPV against no hopers staright away.

Warren is trying his hardest to create another Naz, starting out on ITV to get exposure, then onto SKY and charge silly prices once a gullable fanbase has been built and lets face it, if no true fans of boxing were to watch Amir he'd still make a fortune with all the nut huggers paying to watch him anyway. Warren is very good at building up a fighters reputation as far as joe public goes and he can make them out to be the best fighter since Cassius Clay and as long as he keeps beating all the blown up feather weights his nuthuggers will always pay to see it

Thing is though, Naz actually had the talent whereas Khan is looking more and more iffy each time he gets tagged.

Warren has a bad habit of neglecting his other fighters when a new project comes along. Joe Calzaghe was fighting cardboard cut outs until Naz was gone, Hatton had to threaten to leave him in order to get the Tszyu fight, Alex Arthur is at the stage in his career he should have been at at least 3 years ago but Warren had a new toy (Khan) so that didnt mean **** to him then I remember Warren in an interview stating Kevin Mitchell was the best prospect he had ever seen but along comes Amir and Mitchells career just stalls. Kev is now starting to move up in his career but it feels like he has been at the same level for years. Scott Harrison was asking for a big fight for years and even if he wouldnt have won he'd have been a handful for any of the top guys with his granite chin, no retreat attitude and physical strength yet Warren was tending to his latest toy.

Yep, thats how I see it, Frank has put years of cash and time into Khan (more than I've seen him put into any other of his fighters) and with all these wobbly episodes each time Khan gets clipped by a blown up SFW I doubt very much we will see him stepping up anytime soon (if ever)

Funny thing is though, even at the level Amir is fighting at currently its only a matter of time until one of these wee fella's tags him and puts his lights out and its gonna be funny as feck watching Warrens fish face as it happens