gave up watching 'boxing' fed up with so called super stars bashing up mexican bin men ! now, if you asked me to watch Roberto Duran ,, thats a different game !
[cite]Posted By: Solihull Addick[/cite]gave up watching 'boxing' fed up with so called super stars bashing up mexican bin men ! now, if you asked me to watch Roberto Duran ,, thats a different game !
I know this is said in hindsight, but how can Sky justify wanting to charge people an extra £15 to watch this fight on-top of their subscription fees. Never heard of the challenger and he wasn't even good enough to withstand one punch from Khan, seems like any title fight Sky get, they seem to think is worthy of PPV - thank you JustinTV!!
Was worth the fee for the undercard. The Mitchell vs Prescott fight was great. Think you are being harsh on the challenger, that punch would've stopped anyone at that weight. It nearly took his head off.
[quote][cite]Posted By: PeakieRocket[/cite]I know this is said in hindsight, but how can Sky justify wanting to charge people an extra £15 to watch this fight on-top of their subscription fees. Never heard of the challenger and he wasn't even good enough to withstand one punch from Khan, seems like any title fight Sky get, they seem to think is worthy of PPV - thank you JustinTV!![/quote]
Yeah mitchell was great,but dont go by boxrec for rankings,at one stage they had martin rogan higher than haye which is crazy.Fightnews.com or the ring mag.com for rankings.
will check them out,all in all khan boxed great,and he would not shy from anyone,but when he gets hit by a world class hitter the same thing will happen.
Heads up for anyone who might be interested - seems that Khan's fight tomorrow has been taken off Box Office and moved to Sky Sports 3 because of changes in the undercard.
Some of the shit they trot out on box office (e.g. Audrey), they must be really confident that the "challenger" is going to be a really credible opponent. They actually do have a binman on the undercard, so life imitates Solihull's sarcasm - although the fighter is actually not from anywhere as exotic as Mexico, he's from Leicester.
Nothing against the fighter himself Riscardo just thought it was funny that Solihull had mentioned binmen on the previous page. I just object to the whole sky box office razamataz that follows round any British fighter with a couple of wins. If the Khan camp ever really saw McLoskey as a serious contender why would this bout be scheduled shortly before his big money unification match. World Champions fighting contenders without a realistic hope, on PPV, is the issue.
Khan v McCloskey will now NOT be shown on any sky sports channel, apparently Khan and his team have rejected skys offer of showing the fight on sky sports 3. Now in talks with Primetime to have the fight on their but seems crazy to get on the wrong side of sky in my opinion. Although not on PPV the fight would have surely got big numbers on SS3.
I watched Maidana v Morales for free last night/this morning and saw a banger of a fight between Guerro and Katsidis on the undercard as well as a decent show from Paulie Malignaggi as well as a handful of other good quality bouts
Sky/Khan promotions have a few domestic bouts on the undercard and errrr that's it for your money!
Carter - great action last night I agree though the eyes failed me during the Maidana main event!
Very disappointed if this is true. It's a poor, nothing fight anyway and now it's going to be stuck on a poor, nothing channel and watched by a low audience.
sky only had 50 advance payers for this fight and the proposed undercard is falling apart. What amazes me most is no one seems to have figured the main problem with PPV fights which is that whether it's Hatton V Mayweather or Khan V McCloskey they will always charge £15. If the lesser fights like this were £5-£8 then I'm sure they'd get much better figures and probably make more money.
Gutting thing is at least when on sky box office they show it later in the week on sky sports for free now we won't even see that
I'll always pay £15 to watch Carl Froch and David Haye as for the better part they are always good scraps. The domestic thing Frank Warren did before Chirstmas was a stinker for the money.
When someone has a world title and is an exciting fighter to watch they are then worthy of being on a higher pay scale.
Comments
Was he on a stag night then?
Cotto v Pac Man? Free I believe.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/apr/07/amir-khan-title-defence-chaos
I watched Maidana v Morales for free last night/this morning and saw a banger of a fight between Guerro and Katsidis on the undercard as well as a decent show from Paulie Malignaggi as well as a handful of other good quality bouts
Sky/Khan promotions have a few domestic bouts on the undercard and errrr that's it for your money!
Very disappointed if this is true. It's a poor, nothing fight anyway and now it's going to be stuck on a poor, nothing channel and watched by a low audience.
Gutting thing is at least when on sky box office they show it later in the week on sky sports for free now we won't even see that
When someone has a world title and is an exciting fighter to watch they are then worthy of being on a higher pay scale.