Why is Amir Khan so heavily invested in?

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I was there so I know you're talking shite, but if you want a few more sources then here you go...

"The splattering of empty seats at the MEN were as glaringly apparent as Khan’s superiority over Kotelnik.

Around 8,000 were on hand to watch what may prove to be one of the most significant nights in British boxing history – something the absentees may live to regret now that he plans to decamp to America on a permanent basis."

[url]http://www.theasiannews.co.uk/sport/boxing/s/1127194_comment_khans_next_battle[/url]


"He is desperate to see Khan capture the public's imagination in the same manner as Ricky Hatton but given the pockets of empty seats for the 22-year-old's WBA title victory against Andreas Kotelnik in July, there remain question marks over his long-term popularity. Murray's trainer, Joe Gallagher, said: "If you make John Murray v Amir Khan, the MEN Arena would sell out."

[url]http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/boxing/s/1158923_warren_murray_can_forget_khan_fight[/url]

 

Because he's different

Fast Hands + decent power + suspect chin = Very exciting to wach

 

He couldn't sell more than 8,000 tickets for a World title fight in an arena 10 miles from his home City, comparing him to what Mayweather did against JMM is pointless as Britain is known to draw bigger crowds for popular domestic fighters on a regular basis unlike America, see Calzaghe pulling in over 50,000 for the fight against Kessler.

ITV's figures mean very little either as Saturday night viewing is limited and with the fight being free it attracts a lot more casual supporters who will watch him because it's on, Audley Harrison got decent figures on the BBC (3.5 million against Dominic Negus) which again means very little.

Warren said himself that Khan drew in excess of 100,000 in PPV's while the Klitchko's promoter said Khan only drew 30,000 for the Kotelnik fight so talk of 300,000-400,000 are hugely over the top.

His popularity in Pakistan is irrelevant as the point was over his popularity in the UK, do you think he will be taking the same sort of support to a possible JMM fight in America that followed the likes of Naz, Hatton or Calzaghe over there?

 

He is the new Naseem Hamed, 'nuff said.

 

He doesn't though. He actually gets pretty poor turn outs for his fights these days, and alot of the tickets that do get sold are for the fans of undercards fighters. Hence Khan's recent comments about how he'd be a superstar if he was white.

 

Marketing

 

Alot of truth into this, people like to see something different every now and then in the sport.

 

Now he has moved outside the protective frank warren bubble hopefully he will be tested by some harder opponents.

 

Khan is of Pakistani decent, he is muslim and he is British, one thing we know from British fighters is if they connect with their audience they go all out to support them, take Ricky Hatton. Plus Khan will appeal to Pakistani's as well as the British and more importantly he will appeal to many many Muslims!

 

So you're telling me that Khan's massive following didn't turn up for his first ever World title fight 10 miles from his home town because they knew Kotelnik wasn't an exciting fighter?!

The reason they didn't turn up was because he's not a big draw yet in the UK, that's not to say he won't ever be but at this point in time he's not, as I've said the thinking behind Golden Boy signing him up is that if he can get some big wins under his belt then his fanbase over here and in America will grow, he needs to endear himself to the fans more if he does want backing like Naz, Hatton and Calzaghe first and claiming he would be more popular if he was white isn't the way to do it.

 

I know what you mean. His ppv sales are very poor. And his fights are boring.

 

The age he was at the Olympics was the youngest ever so he had massive news coverage and was well promoted over here, I didnt really like him to start with but met him briefly and was a really nice guy, the girl I work with met him last weekend at the Bolton game where they both have boxes and he was really nice too she said.

She is taking something for me to be signed next weekend hopefully

 

He's still largely untested.

The fact of the matter is that the only puncher he's faced, who wasn't moving up a division or two, was Prescott, and Khan got bazooka'd.

He had a comeback win against ***an, which was a nothing fight.

Since then he got a win over a big name in Barrera, but the fight should have been stopped in the 1st round and declared a NC following the cut. Plus Barrera was not the fighter he once was, and was fighting at a higher weight than he was used to.

The win over Kotelnik was good, and he should get a lot of credit for it. He picked himself up a paper title and showed a new style in the ring with the largely hit and move tactics. But Kotelnik was the weakest of the champions at LWW, and seemed to be a good style match-up for Khan.

And finally the win over Salita, which is the really strange one. Everyone knew going in it was a mismatch, everyone knew that Salita was **** poor and had a terribly manufactured record, and everyone knew Khan was nailed on for the victory. The only thing that came as something of a surprise is that it was over so quickly, taking into account Khan's largely patient approach in his previous contest against Kotelnik. And its the hype from this fight which has everyone talking about Khan and how he's gonna be a dominating force in world boxing for years to come. Its a fight that told me nothing tbh. It was over too quickly, and I don't think you can say this points to some knew kind of awesome power Khan has developed since moving up a couple of pounds and getting together with Roach. It points more to the lack of quality of the opponent, and that maybe Salita was somewhat overcome by the occasion and suffered a bad case of first round freeze.

We need Khan to face his mandatory Maidana in order to discover whether the improvement since the Prescott defeat have really been that dramatic. That is a fight that will tell us a lot.

 

D-Mac my friend you talk alot of sense:good