Amir Khan will be good not great
October 24th, 2009
By Dennis Broadhurst: WBA light welterweight world champion Amir Khan will develop into a very good fighter. He has extremely fast hands, decent ring movement, has a fighting heart, he can put punches together very well and he ahs the experienced trainer Freddy Roach behind him.
I am not going to say that Khan has a glass chin because I have not faced Breidis Prescott myself in a boxing match but Khan certainly does not have a strong chin. Khan does not look to have great power, his training seems to all be revolving around speed and fitness and if he cannot put away fighters like Kotelnik in a 12 round fight then he is no Earnie Shavers. That is it, that is Khan’s weakness, it can all be improved except his chin but if a fighter has great defence then his chin does not always need to be the strongest.
Khan also has strengths as all fighters do, his first and most obvious strength is his speed, Khan is extremely fast and is unlikely to meet a fighter who can equal his speed. Having great speed can also equal power because of the sheer volume of punches. Khan has great fitness, he can fight 12 rounds and not be looking to fade much in the later rounds, I think we can thank Roach for that. Khan also has a fighting heart, he is hungry for success and wants to prove his critics wrong. They are Khan’s main strengths which will get him through a number of bouts but I feel that his chin will eventually give out.
I feel that Khan’s speed and fitness will take him places if his defence improves which I think it will. Khan will get through a lot of fighters and will be champion for a couple of years, but eventually he will face a tough, fast and powerful fighter who will catch him with a perfect shot much like Prescott did and then the questions will be coming in from the critics.
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Nick Griffin got slaughtered on Question time and who never seen that coming!!?? When you throw a Fox to the Hounds it normally goes like that. Jack Straw also got slaughtered when Griffin exposed his father as a coward who would not fight for his country against the REAL NAZIES. So when Jack Straws political Party sends Young British men to their Deaths in the name of what????? I suppose his coward Father will be turning in his Coward grave. Griffin for his part love him or Hate him, His Party has been democratically elected and they must be beaten by debate and not smeared as NAZIS or FACISTS by the left in an undemocratic manner. The real issue is how these Far right partys can get into main stream politics. And the answer lies with the Present Governments Failings. I will leave it up to you to work out.
amir khan is englands best fighter at 140, and will be for a long long time. hatters will just have to except it.
I think on the whole,its not a race thing.theres allways going to be racist morons,but they are the minority.its just that they are far more noticable.
nothing to do with colour, ask many khan haters if they hated the prince, I bet they don’t.
i think the reason khan gets so much negative press is cause he has been over hyped by hes promoter from day one, topping bills from pretty much his first fight being sold to the general public as the saviour of British boxing when there is alot of other fighters out there who have paid there dews and get nothing for it
got half way through the artical before thinking it was poor, khan didnt put away kotelnic….but neither did Marcos Maidana, who is one of the most powerul punchers in the division
khan’s a moaning,whinging hypejob!
he might be leaving the country now because of all the negative press and boxing fans saying negative things about him. i dont think he should go because its just discussion but if he’s really unhappy about it then he should go.
yes khan is improved under roach but he has been fast tracked and over invested in .he will once again taste defeat in his next outing and fade out within 2 years
He is still only 22 which is hardly near peak for a boxer? although he has improved a lot as a boxer, he still can come far. I can’t remember many boxers apart from Tyson who hit there peak early. I would’nt expect him to be a great, but he could prove otherwise, you only have to look at Manny the improvements a boxer can make under Roach.
good article mate
my comment was to short, thats what they told me.Spot on!!!
this article is great,
i am a amir khan fan, and i agree,
but i want amir to go all the way to the top.
If there is one fight id tell Khan to watch and review and learn from its the Benn vs Watson fight, to me Michael Watson was one of the most balanced boxers ever, khan could learn alot.
Is that a prediction or a prophecy?