Amir Khan vs. Kell Brook | Sky Sports PPV - 19 February 2022

[Dioufy]

Can’t have an open stadium fight in February though. Imagine it. Minus 2 and sleet.

[JamesPhilips]

Wow. I guess Amir Khan is a much bigger name still than I thought

His name never declined. Just he never fights and mostly fought in US recently.

I would’ve thought that had an effect. But still a huge name. These ticket sales won’t be for Kell Brook

[Ruthless-RKO]

Wow. I guess Amir Khan is a much bigger name still than I thought

His name never declined. Just he never fights and mostly fought in US recently.

I would’ve thought that had an effect. But still a huge name. These ticket sales won’t be for Kell Brook

Yeh no doubt.

His fright against Lo Greco sold out too at the Echo.

That was his first bout in the UK in like 5-6 years.

No one cared one but that it ended in a minute.

But I guess the opponent name does help.

Also, the fact that it’s 90% possible both will retire after this, or at least one of them.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Can’t have an open stadium fight in February though. Imagine it. Minus 2 and sleet.

Yeh no doubt.

Someone was saying should have done Old Trafford.

Im sure had it been Summer, it would have been considered.

[mickey1975]

Some people need a dance partner. Khan-Kotelnik was half full. Barrera was nearly full. Fury-Haye sold In minutes, other Fury fights haven't.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Some people need a dance partner. Khan-Kotelnik was half full. Barrera was nearly full. Fury-Haye sold In minutes, other Fury fights haven't.

Yeh definitely. Khan will always sell tickets, but against the right opponents or someone the fans to see him fight, he’ll sell out.

With more or less any boxer.

The Haye-Fury was probably more Haye than Fury at the time.

[mickey1975]

Some people need a dance partner. Khan-Kotelnik was half full. Barrera was nearly full. Fury-Haye sold In minutes, other Fury fights haven't.

Yeh definitely. Khan will always sell tickets, but against the right opponents or someone the fans to see him fight, he’ll sell out.

With more or less any boxer.

The Haye-Fury was probably more Haye than Fury at the time.

It was the match. Haye got nowhere near selling out The O2 in his home area. He was at Huddersfield sports centre as a European champion with a couple of hundred people there.

[maverick23]

Some people need a dance partner. Khan-Kotelnik was half full. Barrera was nearly full. Fury-Haye sold In minutes, other Fury fights haven't.

Yeh definitely. Khan will always sell tickets, but against the right opponents or someone the fans to see him fight, he’ll sell out.

With more or less any boxer.

The Haye-Fury was probably more Haye than Fury at the time.

It was the match. Haye got nowhere near selling out The O2 in his home area. He was at Huddersfield sports centre as a European champion with a couple of hundred people there.

From memory Haye sold out or got close selling out the MEN against Ruiz and Harrison. Sold well at the O2 against Enzo and sold 30,000 against Del Boy. He was a long way off from his Huddersfield and Altrincham days. The fight certainly helped but Haye was selling against anyone at that point.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Yeh definitely. Khan will always sell tickets, but against the right opponents or someone the fans to see him fight, he’ll sell out.

With more or less any boxer.

The Haye-Fury was probably more Haye than Fury at the time.

It was the match. Haye got nowhere near selling out The O2 in his home area. He was at Huddersfield sports centre as a European champion with a couple of hundred people there.

From memory Haye sold out or got close selling out the MEN against Ruiz and Harrison. Sold well at the O2 against Enzo and sold 30,000 against Del Boy. He was a long way off from his Huddersfield and Altrincham days. The fight certainly helped but Haye was selling against anyone at that point.

Yeh, a few of his HW fights took place at MEN arena. Not even near his home city.

[mickey1975]

Griffin was at The O2 and caused huge controversy when he started a 2-1 deal after they'd gone on sale. It was after Enzo.

[maverick23]

Griffin was at The O2 and caused huge controversy when he started a 2-1 deal after they'd gone on sale. It was after Enzo.

Griffin?

[mickey1975]

Griffin was at The O2 and caused huge controversy when he started a 2-1 deal after they'd gone on sale. It was after Enzo.

Griffin?

Barrett.

[maverick23]

Griffin was at The O2 and caused huge controversy when he started a 2-1 deal after they'd gone on sale. It was after Enzo.

Griffin?

Barrett.

Yeah - whilst Haye sold well against Enzo he didn’t cross over until Valuev. He had the world title belt and was on the chat show circuit. I watched that fight in a packed sports bar and everyone was watching it there. Ruiz came after that it was the first time my casual mates joined me to a Haye fight. A few of them joined me to Hamburg too for the Klitschko fight.

[mickey1975]

Griffin?

Barrett.

Yeah - whilst Haye sold well against Enzo he didn’t cross over until Valuev. He had the world title belt and was on the chat show circuit. I watched that fight in a packed sports bar and everyone was watching it there. Ruiz came after that it was the first time my casual mates joined me to a Haye fight. A few of them joined me to Hamburg too for the Klitschko fight.

Was you out with us lot in Hamburg?

[maverick23]

Barrett.

Yeah - whilst Haye sold well against Enzo he didn’t cross over until Valuev. He had the world title belt and was on the chat show circuit. I watched that fight in a packed sports bar and everyone was watching it there. Ruiz came after that it was the first time my casual mates joined me to a Haye fight. A few of them joined me to Hamburg too for the Klitschko fight.

Was you out with us lot in Hamburg?

No - for some reason we decided to drive over for it. Left work mid afternoon on the Friday, got the ferry, one night in Holland and then hit Hamburg at 2pm on the Saturday. We ballsed up in not having a clue where the stadium was in relation to the Reaperbahn so tried walking back to some bars and got absolutely drenched. By the time we found a taxi, we just went back to the hotel bar.

The 2 other times after that we went to Germany for fights were Fury/Klitschko and Barker/Sturm. We got flights to both and whilst we missed the laugh in the car, we made sure to enjoy the nightlife post fights.

[mickey1975]

There was a strong boxrec turn out in Hamburg. Mickey Helliet, Buncey, Dave Coldwell. I can't confirm Coldwell tried to get ForceFraser to wrestle with Shirow back at the hotel. I did notice him messing around with a thermostat, though.

[mickey1975]

I preferred dusseldorf, great Irish bars.

[stujones]

Haye was a huge star after Valuev. Remember also HBO had pulled out of Heavyweight boxing but they returned for Haye vs Wlad

[margaret thatcher]

haye was supposed to be the savior , there was so much energy for him. he was gonna thrash the boring , negative klits and take over. hw boxing would be a thrill again

[KiwiRider]

There was a strong boxrec turn out in Hamburg. Mickey Helliet, Buncey, Dave Coldwell. I can't confirm Coldwell tried to get ForceFraser to wrestle with Shirow back at the hotel. I did notice him messing around with a thermostat, though.

Good God, not the thermostat

[maverick23]

I preferred dusseldorf, great Irish bars.

We didn’t see enough of Hamburg to properly judge but Düsseldorf was good fun. Frankfurt was a great place.

[mickey1975]

Ticketmaster themselves are selling "premium" tickets. Around £500 for lower tier. Face value was less than half that, from them! Ringside has doubled as well, £2,500. There's nothing premium about them. They're exactly the same seats. I think I paid £80 for lower tier Hatton-Kostya and Calzaghe-Lacy and only a couple of years ago £60 for WWE. I even only paid £90 for front row Beyonce. £50 for Phoenix Nights Live. All at the same venue. Boxing is horrible at times.

[maverick23]

Ticketmaster themselves are selling "premium" tickets. Around £500 for lower tier. Face value was less than half that, from them! Ringside has doubled as well, £2,500. There's nothing premium about them. They're exactly the same seats. I think I paid £80 for lower tier Hatton-Kostya and Calzaghe-Lacy and only a couple of years ago £60 for WWE. I even only paid £90 for front row Beyonce. £50 for Phoenix Nights Live. All at the same venue. Boxing is horrible at times.

I wonder if FW will go after Boxxer with this like he’s consistently done with Matchroom.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Ticketmaster themselves are selling "premium" tickets. Around £500 for lower tier. Face value was less than half that, from them! Ringside has doubled as well, £2,500. There's nothing premium about them. They're exactly the same seats. I think I paid £80 for lower tier Hatton-Kostya and Calzaghe-Lacy and only a couple of years ago £60 for WWE. I even only paid £90 for front row Beyonce. £50 for Phoenix Nights Live. All at the same venue. Boxing is horrible at times.

Hearn reckoned the fight wouldn’t do 1 million buys.

The fight would probably had to be on DAZN PPV tbf

[a force]

The fights huge. Khans obviously a massive name but Brook’s big in his own right too. He did record figures on regular sky sports at one bit. It was only when Froch fought Bute that he was beaten.

There was 27k at Brammall Lane when Spence came over & as brilliant as Spence is / was he was a complete unknown to anyone outside of hardcore fans. It wasn’t like a Golovkin coming over at the time.

I don’t think it would do that well in Cardiff though. There’s a lot of Asians & Khan fans in Greater Manchester & West Yorkshire. He’s gone to restaurants in places like Bradford, Leeds, Huddersfield, Keighley, Dewsbury etc & he gets mobbed by fans lining the streets..

However it’s one thing to travel an hour or so away but it’s a long trek down to Cardiff both their fan bases.