Amir Khan: Is he for real?
March 3rd, 2010
By TJ Amin: Throughout the years the boxing public have been duped many a times into believing a fighter is far better then he actually is. Whether this is down to great promotion, hand picked opponents, intriguing personalities or just biased blindness, the fact of the matter is the boxing fans are being conned time and time again, I see the same thing happening with Amir khan. In terms of the promotional side Amir Khan has made all the right moves, he has moved alliances from the best UK promoter Frank Warren to the best US based boxing promotional company in Golden Boy Promotions.
The same applies to khan, regardless of the skills, talent and trainer he has at his disposal (amazing speed and great trainer in Freddie Roach); a boxer is predominantly judged by what he has done in the ring. This is when the question is asked of what has Amir Khan done in the ring to deserve this elite boxer status? Prior to getting brutally knocked out by Bredis Prescott, he fought nobody worth mentioning (in the process getting knocked down by guys named Michael Gomez and Willie Limond).
He then beat Oisen Fagan (another nobody), an over the hill Marco Antonio Barrera on cuts, which granted him an undeserving world title fight against the one of the weakest champions in boxing. To Khan’s credit he easily dismantled World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Andriy Kotlenik, and then went onto beat Dimitri Salita (another nobody) in impressive fashion. Next up is Paulie Malignaggi, a man who has fallen well short when stepping up to the elite level. With all this being said I am sure we are still going to fund the khan cash register until he is shown up for what he really is, that’s is a over hyped and below elite level skilled boxer with a weak chin! Naseem Hamed, Jeff Lacy, James Toney. I think we soon we will be adding Khan’s name to the long list of what I personally consider boxing pretenders.
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I for one can honestly say i am NOT a amir khan hater ,he can box and move superbly and his hand speed is excellent, But that said the reason people will not whole heartedly get behind him is because they genuinely believe hes not ben realy testedby credited fighters. How can you call willi limond and salta good oposition irrispective of how they were built up . Since the prescot fight everyones been calling for a rematch but its not happened, however Kevin Mitchel stepped in with prescot and fought brilliently to secure a win full well knowing prescots power shots. Now if mitchell will get in with prescot why wont khan? after all hes got lots of boxing ability .The reason is he and his camp know if hes hit on the button he”s gone so it will not be risked hence Malligana and Not Maidana is up next,And true fight fans know that and always respect a fighter regardless of creed or colour when he steps into the lions den and fights a worthy apponant instead of cherry picked ones.
i just think that if kahn had gon through the domestic scene then the european scene then onto the world scene he would be a lot more respected in the uk he has to avenge the prescott defeat and the mitchell fight has to be a uk superfight dont go near valero though thats just crazy kahn wud beat hatton if they ever fight
I think that the real reason for all this questioning of Khan is because we haven’t seen him step up in levels i.e British and European so nobody really knows what level he’s at. Beating Kotelnik is in my view his greatest achievement but then nobody really knows what level he’s at either. He only won the title with a laboured win over Gavin Rees and i’d hardly call him a world beater. Still though time will tell and im going to reserve my judgement until i’ve seen him in with Malignaggi who while not an elite fighter he’s a good test to see if Khan belongs at world level!
Amir Khan is he for real?
LOL no he just the WBA 140 champion for fun, he got his title by collecting 4 tokens from the Sun paper LOL
And GBP singed him because he can cook a good curry LOL
The writer and all u Khan haters, will soon go missing when he cleans out the 140 division by the end of this year, and soon be in the top 10 P4P list.
the writer of this article must be deluded FOOL. How could he compare Naz to all those fools? Naz was a unified champion PROVEN champion and exciting to watch as much of a clown he was, he was a better fighther the you have listed him as! He got dethroned by a fighter who went on to become pound for pound best in his respected division MAB!
Anonymous- What a berk you are. Tim Bradley is the number 1 in the division, so until khan grows a pair of balls and fights him, then you cant say hes the best in the division.
So when hes fought someone decent you can come back and talk.
Khan doesnt wanna fight anyone decent so how can he be the best LOL
Wow. If James Toney is a con, Amir might as well give up now!
naz a con and pretender. you retard. you don’t know anything about boxing.
no, malignaggi is not exciting, he has no punch, he slaps and he cannot do anything in that fight. his head will be battered about by khan all night long. predictable.
maidana was robbed in the kotelnik fight so those who keep going on about his loss should watch again.
and its cayo that brings no hype to the fight not maidana. maidana v khan was the fight everyone wanted to see. malignaggi is a poor substitute, but i can understand why they went with him. as long as they fight maidana further on down the road and dont use this not to match them up all together. but they are hoping ayo beats maidana and khan will never have to face him. also you insult prince naseem to the writer of the article.
The fact you call James toney (!) and naseem hamed pretenders blows any credibilty you may have had out of the water.
Stick to reporting on football, rounders or golf. You clearly have NO boxing knowledge.
James Toney a pretender? Shows what you know.
@angel
That is preciasly why team Khan did not want to fight maidana, YET, he brings no hype to a fight!!!! yet is a dangrous and underrated opponent!
Malinaggi on the other hand is much more exciting and brings muhc more hype and money to the fight!
I hope this makes it clear.
@ angel
Cayo is not a world champion and really has fought no-ones. Maidana had his title shot and got beat by Kotelnik, who was taken apart by Khan.
Malignaggi is a former world champ with loses to only a prime Hatton and Cotto. You do the math… Maidana is over-rated and if he gets KO’d I won’t be in the slightest bit surprised. Khan is 23, world champ and will fight everyone out there, just give the guy a chance, he won the title and faced his mandatory so he deserves a big name, big money fight… don’t you agree?
Khan will be in the P4P top ten list very soon.
The facts are that, Khan isn’t the best at 140. How can he be? with out fighting all the top fighters in that division. Can he be in the future? Who knows. All this is, Khan haters vs Khan lovers, throwing out htier own opinions and winding wach other up. Khans an exiting boxer, will he get knocked down again? it’s boxing! who cares, What we should be asking ourselves is, will he get back up? Khans making this division exiting, period. Whether people watch in the hope he wins or the hope he gets smashed, it’s exiting for both parties.
the problem with khan is that everything is handed to him on a silver plate. look at maidana fighting victor cayo, un defeated, skilled. where’s the hype about his upcoming fight, is it at maidison square gardens? no, he could well lose to a good but unknown fighter while khan gets to play it safe in spectacular style yet again. we’re sick of the excuses as to why he avoids the best out there and wants hogs all the attention.
TJ Amin – Are you Lame Santiago in disguise?
Khan should fight valero nxt… N that should b a showdown
Golden Boy will get Him bling judges thats for sure sp its a good move for Mr Khan, They will rob Paulie no matter how bad Paulie beats Khan
khan will Whooop bradley !!!!!!!!!!
ha ha ha OLI
What can you guarntee you turnip !
sweet FA
Amir khan is the best fighter at 140 at the moment anybody can see that with half a brain. You just hate amir and write negative tosh for the sake of hating.
Stick to writing on super tim articles OOOHHHH sorry they aint none !!!!!
Amir khan will clean out the 140 division get over it haters
Jmaes Toney was a former P4P king, NOT a con. Naseem Hamed was a good fighter.
BUT yeah i totally agree with the rest of the article Amir Khan is the biggest fraud in world boxing. Hes done NOTHING to deserve his status. He is a manufactured, protected, hype job and in 5 years time will NOT be on the scene this i guarentee. The only way they can keep him solvent is by cherry picking his opponats with the greatest of care for the rest of his joke of a career
@cherry. ok so that’s your opinion regardless of mine or other’s opinion. my point is that it doesn’t take so many articles over & over & over again to state that you think he’s protected or that he’s got a questionable chin or that he’s fought hand-picked easy opponents. Regardless of whether I agree/disagree this all doesn’t need to be stated over & over again. This is not “..new24..”, instead it’s biased opinions just b/c it’s done so much.
Thats a pretty harsh assessment of a 23yr old fighter don’t you think? He beat Kotelnik when fighters like Maidana could not. He won every round against Barrera and KO’d a No.1 contender in 10 seconds. Khan is 23 years of age (did I already say that?) so give him a break, he cannot fight everyone and prove everything already. Get a clue.
not to mention the 13 count against the underpowered Willie… we all saw it…
To Nooski you really should read the article before you begin to ramble on. I did NOT question why khan has not fought a elite fighter, i questioned what has he proven so far in his professional carear to deserve all this hype. As for mayweather he is PROVEN at the MOMENT thus he deserves all the hype and aclaim! get ur finger out dude!
couldnt agree more…Khan is a con
yeah and fladz khans roaches fighter and dlh said that hatton and marquez would beat mayweather and that hatton would beat pacman so he knows a big fk all!oh and an answer to the article NO!
Well said Sardo. For the record both Freddie Roach and Oscar De La Hoya have said Khan has the potential to become a P4P champion, but what do they know?
In response to mauritius. pac man is asian and people love him. So that is rubbish. Also to flummex. Hamed wasn’t past his best at all he retired young after getting a beating from a superior boxer and realised after beating mainly over the hill and washed up fighters that when it came down to it he wasn’t quite good enough. Also to the writer of the article I think you could be right about Khan, but that remains to be seen. He could go on to learn the lessons he needs to. As for calling James Toney a pretender; Did you see his fight with Evander Holyfeild???
this guy needs to stop writing articles, how was Hamed a con. He beat lots of world champions and ex world champs and only lost once when he was well past his prime. As for Khan, yes his chin is weak, but he is a only young and has plenty of time in the sport to shine.
Its obvious he writes articles to provoke a reaction rather than discuss real topics
Okay, ONE insult, you’re a f*ckwit.
how many more amir khan articles can boxingnew24.com do in criticizing him time & time again. A few times by different writers is more than enough. that fact this place does it so much shows there’s some hatin going on.
I haven’t seen him fight.. But I herd he’s good.. Def in gonna watch him againts dj paulie d
did u say hamed was a con? hahah tj amin what a wankstain
this article proves its point, some of y’all still have the wool pulled over your eyes, face facts
Prior to getting brutally knocked out by Bredis Prescott, he fought NOBODY WORTH MENTIONING(in the process getting knocked down by guys named Michael Gomez and Willie Limond). you just mentioned two names right there.
lights out a con????…. the rest i agree with 100% but toney can fight!!!! period. would like to see him fight and beat david haye
Amere Con!?!?! haha thats a good one!! props!!
Amere Con is a pretender. Nothing more. He only wants to fight aging boxing legends who are too small for him with his cheating headbutt tactics. He tried to do that again with Marquez like the fraud that he is. Amere Con runs away from fighters who are still in their prime like the coward that he is. He is scared to death at fighters who are still in their prime. Like Marcos Maidana, Timothy Bradley, Devon Alexander, and Juan Urango.
Arturo Gatti, a pretender?
I can’t even think of the words to say how unbelievably wrong that is.
Hi, I’m boxing. Have we met?
Amir Khan can do well, but needs some serious defensive training, Roach seems to be working on his offense too much, Khan was always good offensively, but needs so much work done on him defensively it is unreal.
Not until he gets in with genuine punchers again will he be taken seriously by genuine fight fans.
break an egg not edge sorry
how can you call james toney a pretender he might have had a few weight problems but he was a great fighter. I think khan is alright. hes probably gonna look good and fight pretty agressively against paulie coz he cant break an edge but i expect his fights to get more and more boring as he steps up in competition and risk. he was cagey against kotelnik and it was a snore fest i cant remember 1 decent exchange in that fight and i think itll only get worse. hes got a very suspect chin. but you cant have everything
2 answer ur question ,, no he is not 4 real amir’s a joKe
This writer is a joke!
gatti pretending dont make me laugh