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Amir Khan: The April Fool
date April 3rd, 2015 | Post Comment - 163 Comments
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amir5445By Robbie Bannatyne – The strange and wacky wheel of the boxing world has taken another turn for the bizarre with the announcement that Amir Khan will face Chris Algieri on May 30th. When I awoke to the news I was confused and thought it must still be April Fools Days. Now it is clear that ‘King Khan’ is the only fool left in April.
I mean what the hell is Khan playing at? He could bank of millions of pounds by facing Kell Brook in the biggest British fight of the year, yet he elects to box Chris Algieri in a fight that will struggle to find a broadcaster!
He passes up an opportunity to fight for a legitimate welterweight title, in the hottest division in boxing, against an unbeaten world champion to face light welterweight Chris Algieri, who is rebounding from an embarrassingly one sided beat down at the hands of Manny Pacquiao!
It goes way beyond the borders of disbelief and if he needed confirmation of how mind bogglingly absurd his decision is he got it from Showtime- who are reportedly refusing to even show the fight on their network! Talk about how to lose fans and alienate yourself. For a fighter who is constantly bumping his gums about wanting ‘the big fights against Mayweather and Pacquiao’, he seems intent on isolating himself even further away from these fights with his unfathomable career choices.
The most frustrating thing in this whole farcical saga is that Khan is a great fighter who is as well placed as any welterweight to compete with Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao. Instead of remaining in the lull of his delusion that it is somehow his divine right to face either Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao, he should prove he deserves a shot by beating Kell Brook in front a sell-out British crowd.
After all, Khan would be the bookies favourites to beat Brook, and winning the IBF belt would be the best way to force a fight with the winner of Mayweather vs Pacquiao. It stands to reason that whoever prevails in the May 2nd mega fight- valid for the WBC, WBA and WBO welterweight titles- will look to unify the 147lb division entirely by adding the IBF title to their collection. Instead of chasing the carrot on the stick, it looks like Amir Khan has been beaten to the head with a stick- how else can you explain his baffling reluctance to fight Kell Brook?
Khan should have been banging Kell Brook’s door down for a fight, yet it was Brook begging Khan to take the bout. Unbelievable. You really couldn’t make it up. Millions of pounds in the bank and a world title belt that is super bait for the winner of Pacquiao vs Mayweather still couldn’t convince Amir Khan to take one step closer to making his dream a reality.
Make no mistake, Khan will live and die by his decision to face Chris Algieri instead of Kell Brook and in the weird and wonderful world of boxing, who would bet against Khan being forced to swallow the bitter pill of Brook bagging the winner of Mayweather vs Pacquiao at his expense.
Now that would be poetic justice.
Amir Khan: The April Fool
date April 3rd, 2015 | Post Comment - 163 Comments
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amir5445By Robbie Bannatyne – The strange and wacky wheel of the boxing world has taken another turn for the bizarre with the announcement that Amir Khan will face Chris Algieri on May 30th. When I awoke to the news I was confused and thought it must still be April Fools Days. Now it is clear that ‘King Khan’ is the only fool left in April.
I mean what the hell is Khan playing at? He could bank of millions of pounds by facing Kell Brook in the biggest British fight of the year, yet he elects to box Chris Algieri in a fight that will struggle to find a broadcaster!
He passes up an opportunity to fight for a legitimate welterweight title, in the hottest division in boxing, against an unbeaten world champion to face light welterweight Chris Algieri, who is rebounding from an embarrassingly one sided beat down at the hands of Manny Pacquiao!
It goes way beyond the borders of disbelief and if he needed confirmation of how mind bogglingly absurd his decision is he got it from Showtime- who are reportedly refusing to even show the fight on their network! Talk about how to lose fans and alienate yourself. For a fighter who is constantly bumping his gums about wanting ‘the big fights against Mayweather and Pacquiao’, he seems intent on isolating himself even further away from these fights with his unfathomable career choices.
The most frustrating thing in this whole farcical saga is that Khan is a great fighter who is as well placed as any welterweight to compete with Floyd Mayweather Jnr and Manny Pacquiao. Instead of remaining in the lull of his delusion that it is somehow his divine right to face either Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao, he should prove he deserves a shot by beating Kell Brook in front a sell-out British crowd.
After all, Khan would be the bookies favourites to beat Brook, and winning the IBF belt would be the best way to force a fight with the winner of Mayweather vs Pacquiao. It stands to reason that whoever prevails in the May 2nd mega fight- valid for the WBC, WBA and WBO welterweight titles- will look to unify the 147lb division entirely by adding the IBF title to their collection. Instead of chasing the carrot on the stick, it looks like Amir Khan has been beaten to the head with a stick- how else can you explain his baffling reluctance to fight Kell Brook?
Khan should have been banging Kell Brook’s door down for a fight, yet it was Brook begging Khan to take the bout. Unbelievable. You really couldn’t make it up. Millions of pounds in the bank and a world title belt that is super bait for the winner of Pacquiao vs Mayweather still couldn’t convince Amir Khan to take one step closer to making his dream a reality.
Make no mistake, Khan will live and die by his decision to face Chris Algieri instead of Kell Brook and in the weird and wonderful world of boxing, who would bet against Khan being forced to swallow the bitter pill of Brook bagging the winner of Mayweather vs Pacquiao at his expense.
Now that would be poetic justice.
Roc Nation made some deals with BET and Fox Sports 1. Word is Andre Ward's June 20th return will be on BET vs TBA.
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I agree Haymon is probably planning on having him on a PBC card, Showtime is like "we passed" to save face, but I disagree about his popularity dropped. He's still a fairly big name in boxing but he's getting SHITTED on something awful right now for this fight. But Danny Garcia got shitted on big time for his Rod Salka fight and it didn't seem to matter.
PBC is buying airtime themselves on all these networks so nothing is exclusive. Everything is coming out of their pockets (their investors pockets to be clear). That's why what Haymon is doing is really interesting - where is the profit coming from? Like the card today all the commercials were PBC commercials besides one or two. They must be willing to lose a ton of money in hopes of future profits down the road.
Foreign markets, replays in other markets, advertisers and ancillary goods. Profit will come, but what's going to happen is the networks will switch and start co-branding if the numbers are consistent or rising. And if the numbers continue to be stable or rise, then the networks will end up paying to keep the product there.
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I think it works differently when he's the one buying time. Its not the networks saying Hey let us have ur product, it's basically like infomercials in a way. If there becomes interests from the networks to actually pay him for it like HERESY said, then I'm sure he'd want exclusive deals, I don't think he's in the position to demand anything yet.
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Haymon proboly just trying to profit for his own pockets..over pays his fighters with the investers money takes his ten percent cutt from each fighter as manager/adviser he probly just going to fuck them over how did to oscar gbp,hbo,showtime,beyonce and now the investers going to get burnt....this guy is all bad for boxing
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Margs is on a fucking roll with these pictures lately lmao
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