By Sean McDaniel: With WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) and his team deciding not to agree to having the April 16th fight between Khan and unbeaten Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) moved from Sky Sports PPV to Sky Sports 3, a non-PPV channel, Khan has now decided to move to Primetime PPV for the McCloskey fight.
Khan vs. McCloskey
Khan-McCloskey to go ahead as scheduled
By Sean McDaniel: The April 16th bout between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) And challenger Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) will go ahead as planned according to Khan’s father Shah Khan. The bout was in doubt after Sky Sports decided to change the Khan-McCloskey bout from a pay-per-view bout to Sky 3, which made took it off PPV and made it free for Sky subscribers. Khan’s paycheck will shrink dramatically because of the change but he’s okay with it.
Khan-McCloskey taken off Sky Sports schedule
By Sean McDaniel: Yesterday it was learned that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s April 16th bout against little known challenger Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) had been moved from Sky Sports pay-per-view to Sky Sports 3, making it available to be seen on free television. However, Sky has now completely take the Khan-McCloskey fight off their online schedule for April 16th, making you wonder whether they will be showing the fight at all. It’s unclear what’s going on with this, as it was thought that the fight would at least be available to viewers for free.
Khan should have picked Prescott as his opponent instead of McCloskey
By Dan Ambrose: With the news that news that Sky Sports has decided to move Amir Khan’s April 16th bout against Paul McCloskey to Sky Sports 3 instead of pay-per-view, Khan is said to be losing as much as £1 million pounds from this move by Sky. The card lacks a co-main event with Matthew Macklin vs. Khoren Gevor being cancelled and the replacement bout Tyson Fury vs. Hasim Rahman going up in smoke after Rahman decided he didn’t want to take the trip to the UK on short notice.
Khan’s purse for McCloskey bout reduced from £1.25 million pounds to around £250,000.
By William Mackay: Sky Sports had decided to move the April 16 fight between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) and Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) from pay-per-view to Sky Sports 3, a move that could reduce Khan’s previously hefty payday from £1.25 million pounds to around £250,000. Boy, that’s got to hurt. The card, which was rather skimpy and lacking in talent from the start, was recently beefed up a bit with the addition of Tyson Fury and Rendall Munroe.
Khan-McCloskey moved from PPV to Sky Sports 3
By Sean McDaniel: Next weeks’ bout between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) and Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) will be shown on Sky Sports 3 rather than pay-per-view. This comes after the news that heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury’s bout with Hasim Rahman is off the card. The Fury-Rahman fight was one of the best fights on the entire card, perhaps even better than the Khan-McCloskey bout.
McCloskey has to punish Khan when he attempts to hold
By William Mackay: If you ask me what the number one thing that challenger Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) needs to do to pull off an upset against WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) in their fight on April 16th, I’d have to say it would be for him to punish the Brit with nonstop punches every time Khan attempts to clinch while in close.
McCloskey’s trainer believes Khan is still vulnerable to being knocked out
By William Mackay: John Breen, the trainer for unbeaten light welterweight contender Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s), believes that WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) is just as vulnerable as he was previously thought to be in terms of Khan’s ability to take head shots.
Is Khan still vulnerable?
By Isobel Castillion: Will WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s chin hold out in future bouts while he faces faster and more skilled opponents than Marcos Maidana, cleans up the division, unifies titles and becomes a multi-weight world champion, which he has expressed an interest in lately?
McCloskey believes he has the style to beat Khan
By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) could have his grand plans of unifying the light welterweight titles dashed by his next opponent Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s), who Khan faces on 4/16 at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England.