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Chambers2 wrote:I'll be buying it with a few mates and I'm quite looking forward to it, Amir gets too much bad press IMO. He's excellente! in terms of his ability and excitement in the square ring and with his profile and backing he should be in numerous massive fight

Amir will go down as a legend IMO

only with terrestrial !!

now he will go down the calzaghe/hatton route... he'll be a household name without any households actually watching him

i agree he has bags of talent




but he was the one british fighter who could have started another golden age for british boxing , with the kind of viewing figures the likes of Benn and Eubank generated on 1tv, 12 -18 million

but then im a true boxing fan

i actually wanted Khan to stay in the amateurs (until the next olympics) , for exactly the same reasons...his presence in the ams would have rejuvenated the sport from grass roots....

instead they followed the quick and easy money

its a shame

ditto all the recent olympians with Warren....drifting in a sordid backwater of alphabets titles, distilled talent, and meagre viewing figures

No way, Jose. Not paying a dime for that rubbish. I like Khan, but it's a poor main event, poor undercard and, aside from Mitchell-Prescott (is this fight even happening?), I'm not remotely interested in anything on this bill.

Eraserhead wrote:No way, Jose. Not paying a dime for that rubbish. I like Khan, but it's a poor main event, poor undercard and, aside from Mitchell-Prescott (is this fight even happening?), I'm not remotely interested in anything on this bill.

What makes you think Mitchell-Prescott may not be happening? I'm looking forward to that more than the main event

funso banjo baby wrote:

Chambers2 wrote:I'll be buying it with a few mates and I'm quite looking forward to it, Amir gets too much bad press IMO. He's excellente! in terms of his ability and excitement in the square ring and with his profile and backing he should be in numerous massive fight

Amir will go down as a legend IMO

only with terrestrial !!

now he will go down the calzaghe/hatton route... he'll be a household name without any households actually watching him

i agree he has bags of talent




but he was the one british fighter who could have started another golden age for british boxing , with the kind of viewing figures the likes of Benn and Eubank generated on 1tv, 12 -18 million

but then im a true boxing fan

i actually wanted Khan to stay in the amateurs (until the next olympics) , for exactly the same reasons...his presence in the ams would have rejuvenated the sport from grass roots....

instead they followed the quick and easy money

its a shame

ditto all the recent olympians with Warren....drifting in a sordid backwater of alphabets titles, distilled talent, and meagre viewing figures

If we had to rely on terrestrial TV to make boxing legends then we'd be pretty fooking short of them in last few decades. Terrestrial TV are just not interested in the sport and you're demented if you think that any UK TV programme will get anywhere near 12-18m viewers

someone remind me why I am supposed to care about allegedly's glass chinned wunderkind's latest effort on his painful, meticulously planned and ever so slow route to finally getting sparked again, let alone waste my own energy and the energy used by the television, in addition to PAYING FOR IT?

Pleaaase put this guy in with Marquez and be done with it all for good.

I'm off to a bar to watch it with some mates

I'll be getting it, but like others i am more interested in the mitchell prescott fight.

Chambers2 wrote: Amir will go down as a legend IMO

got sky plus hd and a 46 inch samsung but im gona watch it on a stream on my 10 inch netbook thats how much i think of amir khan the over hyped over protected over self important t.s .er

sg1985 wrote:

banger wrote:got sky plus hd and a 46 inch samsung but im gona watch it on a stream on my 10 inch netbook thats how much i think of amir khan the over hyped over protected over self important t.s .er

Why bother watching it at all?

Exactly. I'm not.

Anyone else having trouble booking this over Sky HD? It's only giving me the option to book the repeats on the Sunday.

banjo wrote:

sg1985 wrote:I don't mind paying for fights occasionally, I very rarely do, we hardly ever have ppv here, although there have been more in the last couple of years, I miss Setanta!

The only PPV's we have in this country seem to be when a British fighter is involved. We got Pacquiao v Cotto, Mayweather v Marquez, Mayweather v Oscar, Mayweather v Gatti, Mayweather v Baldomir, Hopkins v Tarver, Morales v Pacquiao I & II all on normal Sky Sports but they charged 15 quid for Khan v Prescott

And I bet Pacquiao v Oscar would have been on Sky Sports had Khan not been fighting Oisin Fagan on the same night which gave Sky the excuse to combine the two and sell it as one show on SBO.

Hopkins-ODLH and their preceding double-header, as well as most Tyson fights post-Bruno 2, were UK PPV.

oliverfennell wrote:

banjo wrote:

sg1985 wrote:I don't mind paying for fights occasionally, I very rarely do, we hardly ever have ppv here, although there have been more in the last couple of years, I miss Setanta!

The only PPV's we have in this country seem to be when a British fighter is involved. We got Pacquiao v Cotto, Mayweather v Marquez, Mayweather v Oscar, Mayweather v Gatti, Mayweather v Baldomir, Hopkins v Tarver, Morales v Pacquiao I & II all on normal Sky Sports but they charged 15 quid for Khan v Prescott

And I bet Pacquiao v Oscar would have been on Sky Sports had Khan not been fighting Oisin Fagan on the same night which gave Sky the excuse to combine the two and sell it as one show on SBO.

Hopkins-ODLH and their preceding double-header, as well as most Tyson fights post-Bruno 2, were UK PPV.

As were most Lennox Lewis fights and he was Canadian.

We pay for Sky shouldnt have to pay PPV as well

princess wrote:We pay for Sky shouldnt have to pay PPV as well

We get off lightly, take a look at what the yanks pay

sg1985 wrote:

Hagler2002 wrote:

princess wrote:We pay for Sky shouldnt have to pay PPV as well

We get off lightly, take a look at what the yanks pay

And we get most of the big American fights for free.

And with the new law they're trying to pass we'll get all fights of national importance for free apparently.

kingfinn wrote:

sg1985 wrote:
And with the new law they're trying to pass we'll get all fights of national importance for free apparently.

Like when they stated sky were a monopoly regarding the Premiership and but the rights up for a % of matches over the season, Setanta won them and it ended up costing more to watch them all having to pay for 2 subscriptions

sg1985 wrote:

kingfinn wrote:
And with the new law they're trying to pass we'll get all fights of national importance for free apparently.

What law?

The Ashes & England football internationals should be broadcast on terrestrial TV according to the government, no chance of boxing been added to the list.

Hagler2002 wrote:

sg1985 wrote:

kingfinn wrote:
And with the new law they're trying to pass we'll get all fights of national importance for free apparently.

What law?

The Ashes & England football internationals should be broadcast on terrestrial TV according to the government, no chance of boxing been added to the list.

Election talk

I'll be buying it, good card and as others have said a cheap night in and on at a decent hour.

£15 in house or £70 for a Saturday night out 3 weeks before xmas, simple maths.


Whoooosh £10 a bottle of voddie at Tesco's

sg1985 wrote:

banger wrote:got sky plus hd and a 46 inch samsung but im gona watch it on a stream on my 10 inch netbook thats how much i think of amir khan the over hyped over protected over self important t.s .er

Why bother watching it at all?

love my boxing but not having my trousers pulled down by fwank. ;;-)

a PPV matchup should be contested by 2 legitimate stars with legitimate credentials and this one isn't I feel. I am a Khan fan and I like this bill. But you're correct. It is a big shaft job. If I had Sky I would end up buying it of that I'm sure. Seeing as I couldn't get accomm sorted in Newcastle to go, I shall be wathing in the local Pool hall who usually show the fights.

my predictons.

Khan on Points. Possibly having to pick himself up in the 4th.

Prescott in 8.

Simpson by round 6 stoppage.

Enzo to get beat.

Degale to get booed.

Artur and Wright I am going to say Arthur on points having rocked Wright once or twice.

As long as someone in my block/street has ordered it, I should pick it up for free on my dodgy box. If not I could be tempted as I'm not going out tonight. Having said that, I think the local might be showing it so that could be the cheaper option.

What a shit show.