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Originally Posted by TheDon
The original card did.
Matt Macklin vs Ghevor (WBA Middleweight eliminator)
Anthony Crolla vs Gavin Rees (British Lightweight title)
Scott Quigg vs Someone (WBA Super-Bronze Intercontintental Bantam thingy)
Then all 3 of those fell through for various reasons and they were then replaced with:
Tyson Fury vs Hasim Rahman
Gary Buckland vs Someone
Rendall Munroe's comeback
Which wasn't anywhere near as strong, but still not dreadful.
Then Rahman pulled out of the Fury fight and it suddenly is dreadful and not deserving of a PPV.
It doesn't really have anything to do with the public being turned off PPV boxing, people will still pay for the right card. It has to do with that card not being anywhere strong enough, and no where near as strong as the card that Sky Sports agreed to show on PPV.
It's no surprise they pulled it from PPV, and that they haven't been able to agree a deal to show it on normal sky sports is down to the Khan camp who think they can get more money off primetime.
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I agree the replacement card wasn't as strong as the original but in my opinion Sky were absolutely right to pull it as a PPV event when the Rahman fight was cancelled. Greed on the promoter's part seems to have won out. It will be interesting to see what affect this will have on Khan's promoter's relationship with Sky in future.
Posts on the The Eastside Boxing Forum are reporting that the fight is confirmed for Primetime, I haven't seen anything official myself.
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/...d.php?t=302069