Salita: “Amir Khan has my belt”
December 2nd, 2009
By Sean McDaniel: To listen to unbeaten Dmitriy Salita talk it sounds like World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan is in a whole lot of trouble this Saturday night. Salita is determined to defeat Khan and capture the title, which he feels is his. “Amir Khan has my belt and I’ve trained very hard to take it and will do whatever is necessary to bring it back home with me,” Salita says.
Salita is the underdog for the fight, but no one knows how good he really is and what he’s capable of doing because he hasn’t fought anyone in the top 15 as of yet. Khan doesn’t have that much experience either against top level opposition, losing to Breidis Prescott in a 1st round knockout last year, beating an old Marco Antonio Barrera on a 5th round technical decision and then winning a 12 round decision over Andriy Kotelnik in his last fight.
The Kotelnik fight was impressive, but Khan was facing a weak puncher and he still ran for most of the fight from Kotelnik. Salita appears to have more power than Kotelnik and he could be trouble for Khan if he connects with a big shot on Khan’s vulnerable chin.
Salita says about Khan, “Khan’s a chinny guy and there’s nothing he can do about, it’s just the way he’s built.” Khan takes exception with that description and says he going to get even with Salita in the ring on Saturday. Much of Khan’s reputation for having a weak chin is due to him being knocked down by relatively light punchers while working his way up the pro latter. It didn’t help Khan any that he was destroyed in the 1st round by the first real puncher that he’s faced in his career in his knockout loss to Prescott.
Khan blames the loss on him being careless. That may be, because Khan did go right out and try to slug with Prescott in the opening seconds of the fight. However, Khan initially wasn’t hurt by a power punch from Prescott. He was nailed by a jab of all things and staggered badly. After getting hit with a hard jab from Prescott, Khan was vulnerable for anything that Prescott threw after that.
One would hope that Khan doesn’t take Salita for granted because Salita will be putting all he has in every shot looking to take Khan’s title. Salita hasn’t tasted the big money that Khan has and is hungry to win a title and start getting paid well. With Salita desperately wanting this win, Khan might be better off staying as clear of Salita as possible to avoid getting rocked by one of Salita’s big shots and taken out again.
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haha, all mouth, no action
76 seconds salita got put down in..
76 seconds!
Khan by a wide points margin or late stoppage imho. This Guy doesn’t bring enough to the table other than a punchers chance.
Khan is getting KNOCKED. OUT!!!!!!!!!this isn’t a hand picked opp 4 khan,this is a mandatory, and the kid from brooklyn is gonna take that title!!!
the kosher kid is in for it sat nite
y isnt hatton fighting pacman??????? whys he looking for marquez??? the reason he wanted 2 fight pacman was to win and have a rematch with mayweather… fatton should quit
any fighter that got hit on the chin by prescott like that would go down
Its all talk from Salita, if you can’t fight talk big. What everyone wants to know Why is Salita the mandatory challenger?
if he get hit on the chin hard hes going over!!
KHAN WILL WIN INSIDE 6!!! KHAN IS JUST TOO FAST AND AS VERY SKILLFULL OPERATOR!!
AS MUCH AS I HATE KHAN U GOTTA GIVE HIM CREDIT FOR RE-BOUNDING BK FROM HIS SHOCK 54 SECOND KNOCKOUT TO THE FIERCE PRESSCOTT!!
WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT A YR LATER THAT KHAN WOULD BE WORLD CHAMPION???
So many people unestimate the skill, speed, power and intelligence that amir khan has.
Before his loss to presscot he was a very aggressive figher, he can punch and he can punch fast, very fast.
His feet are also very fast.
He is going to dance around Salita all night, like manny pacman would. Then jump in with attacks of his own… then back out again.
Khan will walk this fight (or should i say run) but this still does not prove he is a good boxer he fights bums and past it fighters and his first real challenge with Prescot was a joke it showed that Kahn can NOT take a shot at all and he is fooling the part time fans who know little to nothing about the sport!
It will be intresting to see what road Khan really takes after his next fight?
I have no ill feeling towards Khan but i dont like it when boxers make as much money as Khan has and he has never really faced anyone of real talent, and you get other boxers who have had harder fights with better opponents and find it hard to make a living like they still have to work the bins or builders etc,etc some of the men that dont get the chance to train full time with the likes of mr roach, boxing is becoming a joke where you dont need to be good you just need to be managed well to make money and that makes it easy for boxers to cherry pick fights!!
Salita is too slow for khan. Since Khan joined Freddie Roach he is far way better then he was when he fought prescott. I think Khan will win by late stoppage.
anyway i shall conclude by requesting u 2 actually put an article looking at khans strength and how he could win this fight and then i may take more intrest in ur articles.
im a khan fan. and personally most people say he’s arrogant and so on. i disagree to an extent that much of it is down to the media and to compare khan to other fighters he actually seems like a nice lad.now that its clear i will like to praise u for this article slightly biased in terms of saying khan should watch out and not actually giving the lad credit on how sharp and focused he looked in the recent workout with freddie roach.having said that the media is playing a huge fight in terms of the hatton v khan saga.they have sucked him in and his words are getting twisted and lets not forget 6 months ago khan made it clear hatton is his friend and he wouldnt want 2 stand toe 2 toe bt anything is possible and that should of been the last line.although i shall agree that salita could surprise and no one really knows what the lad is capable as the same applies when prescott v khan. 90% would agree khan was going to walk that fight.also what i hate most is that khans NOT THE ONLY BOXER 2 LOSE A FIGHT.LOL..