By Saqib Khan: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan last Saturday fight with Paul McCloskey might have been a farce, but there was no denying one thing Khan is a Pay-per-view fighter, from such short notice khan vs McCloskey were able to generate 50,000 PPV on Primetime channel. Primetime submitted a statement that Amir Khan had broken their last PPV record which was held by the super six fight Carl Froch vs Mikkel Kessler “We are delighted with the figures which was a record breaking night for Primetime.”
Later this week team khan sent out a statement via twitter that the PPV figure exceeded fifty thousand plus.
Well Eddie Hearn and sky box office eat your own words. This is really bad news for sky box office as they have lost a marquee name. Amir Khan Promoter Oscar Dela Hoya also stated he will do future business with Primetime and put on his other fighters. Sky should have known Khan was going to get good ratings after the Marcos Maidana fight and they weren’t even interested in the Bradley fight. That’s a pick ’em fight where anyone can get KO or loose, even though I pick khan to KO Bradley early. Sky should have realized is that Khan is marmite he has two set of fans who are a passionate both ways, to see him get a knockout or to see him win that’s why he is a PPV attraction, my friends who don’t like Amir khan would pay to watch Khan vs Bradley to see if Khan will get a knockout.
As for the fight it was a landslide for Amir Khan, Paul McCloskey didn’t even throw a punch. This was his world title fight he needs to throw more, boss the fight. As for Khan I didn’t think he was in good shape for this fight …. He looked pale and weight drained for this fight, and his punches did not have any effect in the fight, there was speed but no power. I think there was a case to say Amir khan you need to bring back Alex Ariza before you fight Tim Bradley, because there was big difference from the Paulie Malignaggi and this one as both fighters were awkward customers, and you Amir khan did look weak in the fight.
The second part to this is does Paul McCloskey warrant a rematch, there are many factors:
On the fight performance no chance, all he did was dodge and weave and made Amir khan look clumsy, and you don’t win world titles like that you have to win them.
If McCloskey really wants the re match he should look no further that golden boy promoted fighter Maidana who is the interim WBA champion. That fight in Ireland would sell thousands and if he did beat him then he would become mandatory. Amir Khan would have to face Paul again, but Maidana would destroy Paul he would look clumsy but when he connects it would be lights out.
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