Are you boycotting the khan fight?...

[Dioufy]

Funnily enough, I have just this minute recieved a text from Primetime asking me if I wanted to buy the Khan fight. Suffice to say I sent one back telling them that Khan is a coont and that I won't be buying. I doubt any human will read it, but you never know.

And Glyn, it is fun, especially done by a she/man with a bigger cock that you.

[palooka]

I feel that if we must pay extra (on top of subscriptions) for boxing, it should be a couple or 3 hours of scheduled action. Obviously; any fight can end very quickly but if there are no interesting or strongly competitive matches on the undercard; the main event needs to be a blinder. I'd pay to see a competitive bout, I'll not pay to see an exhibition. I like McCloskey as a boxer; he is getting more accustomed to European level and on his night has a pleasing style. I admire how McCloskey has carried himself through this and hope he does well in the bout.

No one would want to take a massive pay cut but it is in a mad world that Khan can figure getting £1,250,000 for boxing a man very few have given a chance of winning. A more than million £ purse should be seen as being thoroughly competitive; it is not as if Amir had to fight the murderers row to get the title.

It could be argued that Amirs' best performance has been Maidana, who didn't look like championship material last weekend against Morales. Boxing fans are taken for granted; they will spend the dough to watch the fights, even when the bouts are not up to much. It's not much of a buyers market is it?

[oliverfennell]

If it's on Primetime and £15 then I won't buy it, £10 I might be tempted

Yes, that would have been fair enough. If SBO said 15 for Khan-McCloskey and a decent undercard, and then pulled it off PPV on account of the weak undercard, then Primetime should have offered it at a tenner, say. Then Khan would have retained his PPV status and the fans would have been appeased somewhat.

I'd also suggest knocking a couple of quid off for the internet subscription, since internet broadcasts tend to be less reliable and of lesser quality, and also the broadcast itself costs Primetime less than the televised one.

And speaking of the internet subscription, I looked into that on the Primetime website and it said it was only available in the UK and Ireland.

Now, considering it's a fight between a Brit and and Irishman, screened on a channel only available in Britain and Ireland, surely the majority of people looking into the internet option would be overseas, in which case why are they being blocked from a legal means of watching it?? I can understand it if it's for countries which already have a broadcast agreement for the fight, but it's not accessible in any other country.

[Manchester Massive]

I was coming round to him after Maidana,

But the Ariza thing and now this jumped-up attitude and approach to them milking every last bloody cent out of the British public leaves me cold.

Were all racists so im leaving UK, McCracken is shit for not picking Harry Khan, his chaviness, his team, hand picking opponents, bragging and general aura and they way they treated Oliver, the Cuban - it's always someone's fault and never his.

He's just a thick nob.

Obsessed by fiddling every last dime out of any situation.

The way they broke into Ariza's hotel room shows the class of the them all for me I'm afraid - anything to get out of paying anything.

Well guess what pal, your not getting a cent out of me.

what was this about breaking into Ariza's hotel room, not heard this?

[Glyn Leach]

And Glyn, it is fun, especially done by a she/man with a bigger cock that you.

Ssssshh, you'll give Princess ideas

[Dioufy]

And Glyn, it is fun, especially done by a she/man with a bigger cock that you.

Ssssshh, you'll give Princess ideas

What's the going rate these days for not doing the pots?

5 lashes? 10 lashes? 45 lashes? A 8" black Mamba cock up you're arse; no lube?

[oliverfennell]

Last week Khan was fighting McCloskey on Sky Box Office. Sky pull it off Box Office, back Khan into a corner and all of a sudden he is a greedy bastard and Sky are heroes. He's fighting the same guy. Sky are pulling it because they don't think they will make money.

Good point. I'm sure SBO would still run it if they thought it would be profitable. But since they think it won't be, they can package it as a "quality control" PR push.

I wonder where this quality control was when we were given a ONE-FIGHT undercard to Haye-Harrison? (Since it was the undercard that was the deal-breaker in this instance).

What bothered me most about the Haye-Harrison PPV was not so much the main event, nor even the overall quality of the bill, but the fact that they had 4 or 5 hours at their disposal yet only broadcast two fights.

It wasn't a good bill by any stretch of the imagination, but since it was what it was, we could have seen highlights at least of the IBF eliminator, the Hall fight in full, and can they tell me there wasn't enough room for two one-round knockouts - one featuring a heavyweight prospect, and one that was KO of the Year material?

[oliverfennell]

No boxing card is PPV worthy, can you utter morons not see what has happened to the sport since PPV came in?

In the "good old days" of boxing on terrestrial TV, we'd get one 50-minute Big Fight Live slot on ITV on Saturday nights, which didn't leave any room for an undercard match unless the main event finished very early, and the odd fight sandwiched into Sportsnight midweek on BBC, which usually wasn't live unless it was Bruno.

[Glyn Leach]

And Glyn, it is fun, especially done by a she/man with a bigger cock that you.

Ssssshh, you'll give Princess ideas

What's the going rate these days for not doing the pots?

5 lashes? 10 lashes? 45 lashes? A 8" black Mamba cock up you're arse; no lube?

She favours the Meldrick Delux model

[Feargal....]

I won't be boycotting. Got two tickets for myself and the girlfriend. Hopefully Dudey can somehow get the win. Looking forward to seeing young Kavanagh fighting

[palooka]

We can all choose to pay for whatever we want. One of the calculations we must make though is whether the item (or service) is 'worth it' or whether the item is 'as described'. £15 is the going rate for a PPV (over the £80 a month subscriptions). I feel that if Khan were boxing a highly world rated light-welter or welter the bout may be worth an additional £15; as it is Paul is not highly rated in the world or considered a dangerous challenger. The bout does not equate to a bout highly looked forward to by the casual fan; this is not Pacquiao v Mayweather :(

[orbtastic]

You don't need an 80 quid a month sub to get a PPV, that's the whole point of PPV. Pay per view.

[hurlock]

whats all the fuss about??

to be honest, if i find myself with nothing better to do i may tune in as it isnt really that intriguing as mcloskey falls short of world class imo.

khan does make me laugh mentioning my british fans as he is some sort of international superstar.

[Exoddus]

Wasn't going to buy it before. Still not going to buy it now!

[Jeff Thomas]

I'm going to this now

Wouldn't have paid for it on telly though.

I feel dirty.

[Scottrf]

I'm going to this now

Wouldn't have paid for it on telly though.

I feel dirty.

You satan worshipper!

Although I'm going too. Any excuse to get up to Manchester and any way I can drag people to boxing!