Froch: “Why Doesn’t He [Khan] Go and Get The Rematch With Prescott?”
July 31st, 2009
By Scott Gilfoid: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch was recently expressing his dissatisfaction with newly crowned World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s performance against Ukrainian Andriy Kotelnik on July 18th, calling it “Boring.” Froch wonders why about Khan, asking the question “Why doesn’t he [Khan] go and get a rematch with Prescott?” This is a good question and one that’s been on the minds of many in the boxing world when looking at the career of the 22-year-old Khan.
Why doesn’t he try and avenge his 1st round knockout of Breidis Prescott? While Khan wants to be respected and thought of as a potential superstar in the sport, he isn’t doing the things that he needs to do to get to that level. Fighting a weaker puncher like Kotelnik, who a lot of people felt was the weakest of the light welterweight champions, did little to dispel the notion that Khan has a glass chin and can’t take a heavy shot without being knocked out.
Khan changed trainers after his loss to Prescott last year and signed up Freddie Roach, an American trainer known for having worked wonders in refining the crude fighting style of Manny Pacquiao. Roach has made some changes to Khan’s style of fighting and has made him more of a mover and defensively-oriented fighter.
From the outside appearances, Khan has improved since being beaten by Prescott, but given that Khan hasn’t faced a real threat since that fight, you can’t really tell for sure. Beating Kotelnik isn’t a real big deal because he doesn’t have much of a punch and wasn’t ever a real danger to test Khan’s weak chin.
Roach, however, seems to think that Khan is the finished product now and won’t be making any more mistakes like he did in his fight with Prescott. That may or may not be true, but unless they put Khan in with Prescott in a rematch or another big puncher like Marcos Maidana or Victor Ortiz, we won’t know for sure.
Whatever the case, the Prescott loss remains a dark stain on Khan’s career and is hard to ignore no matter how many Kotelnik type fighters that Khan fights in the future.
Froch thinks that Khan is being protected from Prescott by Amir’s promoter. “Warren protects all his fighters and Khan’s definitely being protected too much,” Froch says in an article from The Sun. The problem is that unless Khan goes after a rematch with Prescott and try to prove people wrong about his weak chin, he’ll look to many people as if he’s ducking Prescott. Froch thinks that Khan will never be a great fighter until his promoter stops protecting him so much.
As for Khan’s recent fight with Kotelnik, Froch wasn’t impressed with the fight, calling it a “Safety first” type approach and saying that Khan has to fight this way to guard his fragile chin. Froch thinks that if Khan takes a big hit from someone, he’ll go down. Froch points out that Khan is fighting at a distance now, jabbing and keeping his guard tight to prevent from getting nailed by a big shot. He sees him as a champion over a weak division. Froch is wrong about that.
The light welterweight division is actually pretty good with fighters like Timothy Bradley, Maidana, Kendall Holt, Victor Ortiz, Nate Campbell, Victor Cayo, Ricky Hatton, Mike Alvarado, Juan Diaz, Randall Bailey, Junior Witter, Devon Alexander and Joan Guzman. The problem is Khan needs to fight some of these guys and not step around them looking for weaker opponents.
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prescott lost his last fight…hes gna have a long crawl getting back to where he was unfortunately. as for froch’s old arse, he needs to realise that khan is still young and getting better…yeah i think he definitely lose some more fights and win more belts throughout his career…as for carl froch, a guy who was losing to jermain taylor if not for a freak knockout, at ur age ur career aint going anywhere…ur always gna be in calzaghe’s shadow…it shud say that on ur grave. and to the author…write about somebody else now!!!
if amirkhan is a champion he should re challenge with presscott and show his power otherwise ????????????/
well i do,if your a fighter your a fighter,crap like that shouldn’t come into it,if it does then you should do something else
we all have our opinions but no matter how old you are,how much you improve,how fast you are,one thing you can never do is improve your chin,once chinny,always chinny.All he can do is work on his defence,make it tighter but any top class boxer that can punch will always find him out,we don’t even know how good prescot is,but what we do know is he can knock out kahn.He been down 7 times in his career without ever fighting anyone top class
Mark f – Very good response
I take it from you post that you would give credit to Khan if he went after the very best and not cherry pick opponents (I hope that’s right).
Very valid point but Amir Khan is still maturing as a fighter and getting better with each fight since being wih Roach.
Amir Khan would not be the first boxer to ever be ‘protected’ this way but I don’t see it as a reason to doubt his talents.
If I was a trainer and I had a great prospect I wouldn’t throw him in the deep end.
(He is only 22 years old)
I have no doubt that he will be taking on the very best of the best soon.
You guys are difficult to please !!!
You must have incredibly high standards to say ‘yip this kid has talent’ (I’m not being sarcastic)
Khan looked great against Barrera and recently Kotelnik (both quality opponents)
He is over-hyped (at the moment) but not totally without merit.
What does he have to do to impress you guys??
Real answers please!!!
khan…khant more like.i would love to see froch win,but i think youre right blade.kessler is to classy i hope im wrong though.keep those hands up froch!long odds on taylor..might be worth a bet
froch should keep is mouth shut and concentrate on his own career,(khans fight was the most boring ever)which is gonna be over very quickly if his last fight was anything to go by,,so he knocked taylor out with 14 sec to go in the 12th round,was that planned was it,for the enjoyment of the fans ,dont think so!!!!,froch didnt know what to do with taylor ,,,,couldnt outbox him,,,, and then got lucky because taylor wilted at the last hurdle,,,,he walks round nottingham like hes Ali,slagging calzaghe off every opportunity he gets ,(your not even in the same league),,now he,s started on young amir ,,well tell u what i was ringside for amir and i enjoyed that alot more than watching froch,and if youd seen the cheers amir was getting after the final bell im sure itd be an eye opener for you froch,last time i checked nobody wanted to cover your fights on tv ,is that because of the credit crunch,dont think so,because youv zero charizma,, nobody bothered about watching you ,,,now your slagn other british world champs off when u should be getting behind them,,,,ever remember ricky or calzaghe slaggin other british world champs off to further there career,NO,youv got no class,,,and couldnt fill my back yard ,,,champ,,,,,,more like chump!!!
FROCH is the man says it how it is and he will win the tournement with kessler 2nd abraham 3rd
ANDREW WAKE UP !
Someone made a fine point…if there was a tournaent at light welter i can guarentee amir khan would not wanna be in it.
Thats ridicalous,prescot would destroy him again,worst chin in boxing won’t last long at highest level.Totally agree tho on the Froch thing,he just trades off calzaghes name and i can’t wait for the tourno to see him get
battered
you know what i got a feeling Khan will fight Prescott, may be not in the next fight, i mean Prescott can’t jump the queue and get a world title fight after loosing, but may in a couple of fights, and when he does fight Prescott, Khan will demolish him and deep down most of us know that.
The month he meant was Ramanadan (he should have clarified in his blog)… yes Amir Khan fought Bredis Prescott in Ramadan (month of fasting)… a silly thing to do
Scott, what is up with you and talking trash about Amir Khan, while glorifying anything Froach says (to get publicity), are you and Froch lovers…..
I’ll be watching andrew,who you reckon for 1st defence?
another over hyped fighter ala hatton mode da.
Khan has a chin made of the finest glass.
When he stops running & fights one World Class guy who has a punch. . . it will be smashed AGAIN.
Blade – I respect your scepticism (given the KO)
But be prepared to watch him get better and better
Ive never liked khan but ive always loved watching his action packed fights. He was very fast and aggressive before he signed with roach.
He needs to find the perfect blend of roaches defensive style, with his old still of attacking heavily.
Look at what khans fast hands did to michael gomez!
Khan please dont bore the boxing world, a win isnt everything. This is entertainment.
a future all time great!Your cracking up andrew
Shawn u obviously dont know Froch well, he is a different breed to Khan, his first defence against Taylor shown that, also I bet my house that if a tourney was created in either the lightweight or light welter divisions Khan would not want to know. Its not just Khan though im digging at, we all know Haye pulled outta the wlad fight because of Setanta going to the wall, therefore shrinking his purse, Froch would have gone for glory and fought anyway, KING COBRA IS BRITAINS NO1!!!!!
Amir Con is afraid of Breidis Prescott
The reason why Amir Con does not get the rematch with Breidi Prescott is because he is a chicken.
Change the record Gilfoid. You are a muppett.
prescott was outclassed by miguel vazquez and lost. therefore he is no.30 in the rankings. also we saw that if u survive the first round against prescott it is easy to outbox as vazquez was knockdown in the first round. Therefore i think khan would outbox prescott if he survived the first round which i now think he will.
i want them to fight again so presscot can do the same again or maybe even better kill him!
How can you say khan only lost because he was fighting in that month he lost because presott was or is the better fighter. The answer to we will not find out until a rematch. I am a fan of Khan but he was outclassd by presott, I hope soon he proves otherwise.
I was happy to see Amir khan get knocked out !!!
WHY???
Because I knew that he would become a MUCH better boxer because of it.
Just ask Wladimir Klitschko and Lennox Lewis!!!!
I absolutely think Khan has the skills ,speed and god given talent to go down as one of the greats.
After they were KO’d Klitschko and Lewis both had to spend the rest of their careers with the whole
‘china chin’ label .
Guess what- they went on to dominate their division.
Khan would absolutely OWN Prescott if they fought again.
khan wont be champion long at light-welter, his chin is like a chandelere. michael gomez a natural super-feather weight floored khan wit a shot dat didnt even land flush!!
Scott give it a rest. All you write about is Amir Kahn! Why are you so obsessed with him? We get the idea you think he’s overrated. Find something else to write about, nobody cares.
Blade – ” I can think of 12″! LOL that’s good!
what month that?i can think of 12
Nice one anonymous!
Matt W,what is it with you and Froch!A stone cold killer,do you actually know anything about boxing,don’t answer that cos you don’t have a clue
Fact that prescott never got the shot at a title and kahn did is a disgrace!He won’t go anywhere near Prescott cos he knows what would happen,same as if he fought me,he’d get banged out!