How come Khan looked so tired and marked up against Malignaggi?
May 18th, 2010
By Scott Gilfoid: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) stopped Paulie Malignaggi (27-4, 5 KO’s) in the 11th round last Saturday night in Khan’s debut fight in the United States. After only one fight in the U.S. against the fading Malignaggi, Khan’s trainer Freddie Roach has already declared that Khan can beat the other 140 pounders in the division. I don’t know if I agree with that. While Khan did get the win over the light hitting Malignaggi, Khan looked really tired by the 10th round and his face was badly marked up by Malignaggi’s weak shots. I don’t know about what Roach thinks on this matter, but I don’t see this as a good sign.
Right now, Khan is riding the crest of success in beating Malignaggi, but what does that win really mean when Khan is looking tired and getting marked up badly? What meaning is there in beating Malignaggi and looking tired when there are much tougher fights ahead of him? Instead of getting excited about it and seeing Khan as already the best in the light welterweight division, Roach needs to be looking at Khan’s performance with a more realistic look and see the flaws that Khan showed. Khan beat a guy that was hand-picked for him to beat, yet still got marked up and couldn’t take him out until the 11th round.
I have hard time seeing Malignaggi lasting long against Maidana, Bradley, Ortiz or Alexander. I think Malignaggi would take terrifying punishment against any of those fighters and wouldn’t make it anywhere close to the 11th round. Can you imagine what Maidana would do against a stationary fighter like Malignaggi? In the past, Malignaggi used to be able to move well. However, last Saturday night his legs appeared to be completely gone. It was all he could do to slowly move around the ring like an aging heavyweight. If he fought like that against Maidana, Malignaggi would be ripped apart and sent into dream land by the 5th or 6th rounds.
I think Roach needs to take a second look at the Khan-Malignaggi fight like I have and seen the flaws that Khan showed in that fight, because right now I think he’d be knocked out by any of those aforementioned fighters. He’s a good basic fighter, but he seems to be lacking in the chin and the stamina department. His defense needs work too. Khan need to adopt a different style of fighting if he wants to beat the better light welterweights, because he’s going to run out of gas against them and if he takes shots, I can see him breaking down and getting stopped again.
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stupid post.
anyone in the game of getting punched in the face for 36mins will get marked up if they are hit.
and u hate uk fighters and ur mom takes it in the ass
Ok guys i admit it i suck Andre Dirrell’s big one and i havnt got a f*ckin clue about boxing
scot u mother fu.ker your moms a slag who likes black coc.k or dirrels black coc.k………
@ Northfleet Mauler – what fight did you see??? Form your own opinion, rather than just follow what is written on here. Bet you never even watched the fight.
If Khan had won how come he hasn’t offered a re-match-it’s exactly the same as when Prescott Bredis knocked hom spark out in less than a minute.
He isn’t a bad fighter per se, he just needs to prove himself at domestic level before being pushed forward, just because he is “marketable” he is being hurried along.
i thought khan looked great…and i am not really bothered by his first round ko…it can happen to anybody if you get caught just right…anybody can potentially get ko’d in the first…he may make his defense better…
He didnt look tired to me, he looked focused and thoughtful in his approach…he worked on setting his feet in this fight, he kept things simple…believe me khan can throw 150-200 punches per round with ease.
He looked marked up because it was a fight which saw him against someone who dipped low to avoid punches, so khan got caught with the head and elbow now and then…that is enough to mark anyone up…if you watched the fight you could see he didnt get caught by punches to cause such marking.
He looked tired because paulie didn,t lay down for him .He had to think and work.
Khan had it right ..”if you get in the shower you’re gonna get wet”………doesn’t mean you’re in trouble……
Ha Ha Ha, that a good ‘un Scott. Why not not let Paulie lace on the gloves and punch you a few times in the face Scott?
Then you will really know for sure whether he is a powder-puff puncher or not.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…..please stop writing these ludicrous articles, yer killin’ me….(gasp!)….ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha………………………..ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. I hope your eyes don’t get too bruised. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
To the writer:
The reason Khan is marked up and or tired is simple.
IT”S BOXING!!!!
What do you expect??
The most terrible read, in all of Boxing websites..
what a joke!!!! he looked tired hahahaha paulie looked heart broken and tired khan looked calm collective and unhurt what more do you yanks want
I was cheering for Malignaggi….but let’s be real….Khan was not tired at all……his eyes were surprisingly marked up since it didn’t look like Paulie hit him in the face much….but Khan looked fine to me. It’s a fight though and it only takes one punch to blacken an eye. He won and wasn’t hurt or tired. What more do you want?
DlRTY P#Kl KHAN GOT KFTO IN S!DE 1 RD .lool. KHAN UR A BUM
At last an article that makes sense. AK may have got the win, but look how marked up he was. PM has a dismal KO record, only five in his whole career, and two of those were in his first couple of fights against nobodies.
How does AK expect to perform against Bradley, Mediana, Alexander etc… The stoppage was very fortunate, at that point I had PM two rounds ahead. The stoppage was an excuse by the referee due “ensure” AK won.
Notice how AK has not discussed giving PM a re-match, course he won’t, he will want to avoid PM like he avoids Prescott Bredis since he got iced in one minute.
Unifying the division…..?Thats a laugh.
You need to get over your xenophobia, you seem to take every opportunity you can to put down british boxers. I’m not khans biggest fan but look at his age and he’s a genuine world champion and contender for the other belts. We should be talking about his potential and leave the postmorten until he’s 28, i trust roach and his judgement as you should as he is the most respected trainer in the world. It’s very obvious what you do on this particular site and thats to provoke people and try and split opinions to gain a reaction. But this will only get you so far and you want be respected as a boxing journalist untill you start writting about your educated opionions and not what you think will get the biggest response!
@ Akira – what do u mean Khan has never gone past round 5? idiot! What about Kotelnik? Gary St Clair? Richarde Drilzane? Limond? thats only to name a few…
Oh right. After 11 rounds of professional boxing against one of the most skillful boxers in the division, a boxer is supposed to look completely unmarked and fit. Kind of stuff that only scotty boy says
Just imagine trying to hit Paulie repeatedly for 11 rounds. Of course you would get tired. It’s incrediblY hard to land a shot against him, with all the head movement
who are the people that write these crazy posts? khan looked tried cos he’s never gone past the 5th round before. his stamana will improve more with time and experience. the paulie fight was totally 1 sided. i personally thought that it was gonna be very close but it was far from it. i agree that he did look a bit beaten up but i challenge anyone to box 11 rounds and come out looking fresh. his lip was fat before the fight had even started. alexanda and bradly will eat khan alive in my view however the rest in the divison better watch out. khan would knockout ortiz easily, so stop your that nonesense about ortiz, he’s alot worst then khan. if khan fought campell that night the fight would of been over in round 5.
if your gonna get in the shower your gonna get wet
@ andre your bang on with your post degale got gold does this mean he wil get twice the exposure kon got and the same easy path to a title with smaler weaker oppisition
“marked up” cos he had a little mouse? i don’t think so.
This article has gota be a wind up?! Nothing positive can come from an article like this, If he was in a meeting with Dela hoya and came out the office looking like that, your article would hold some substance. Its embarrassing this is.
Kahn looks tired coz he was on the ring fighting! isnt it obvious? try stepping on the ring see if you wont get tired! WOW! where are they getting this writers.
Khans awesome performance at the weekend really has got the haters wound up good and proper. Great job Amir!!
Many die-hard fans have an issue with Khan’s path to his particular crown. When he started out he was on terrestrial tv headlining events as a pro novice. His Olympic profile allowed this. Where the resentment built was seeing Khan boxing like a novice but being sold as a superstar. This built further when a pattern of opponents emerged: Typically he was fed bums usually a couple of divisions lighter than himself. Once Khan started being wobbled by these physically challenged individuals the alarm bells really started ringing…then Khan was put in the ring with someone his own size and reach and…well the rest is history! Now Khan’s handler’s have ridden his major drawing power off the back of his Olympic achievement. And that means he must be carefully steered toward the status ‘prematurely’ bestowed upon him by the Olympics. In effect? The focus is on about maximising on Khan’s major draw potential nothing else. That said, they will try and keep his fights as ‘acceptably challenging’ as they can without ‘immediately’ cooking the golden goose (i.e. by not putting him in with any of the top three anytime soon!) So, look out for more Khan camp posturing over certain fights, delays, pull outs and lower weight challengers coming up to fight Khan.
This websites owners are stupid people.. i CAN GET AWAY WITH WRITING ANYTHING…!! especially nonsense like this,… believe me.. my job is to just chill out l……… I have no boxing experience at all and i blow shafts for a living
I was drunk.. sorry guys… let me beat myself now
omg what nut huggers you lot are. he’s right, khan looked battered like he’d been in a war. imagine if he had been in a real war, what will he look like then? but then he wont be standing by the end of thats one thing you can count on.
Is this writer for real? he was tired? Khan throw almost 1000 punches against andreas kotelnik and went 12 round!! Now his tired after throwing half that and only going 11 rounds + he was more composed and saved energy! this writer is pure jokes LOL…
mexican boxers are de best
Kahn looked great in his fight, he had allmost a full tank at the very end. He has a bright future ahead of him. I like the way he fights and he is able to focus very well…….I was not a big fan of his but he is a for real guy.
to the owner of this site,SACK GILFOID PLZ
Not the biggest Khan fan in the world, but what a stupid bloody article. To say Khan looked tired is nothing short of either stupidity or lack of a boxing brain, he look as though he could have went another 11 rounds with the same blistering hand speed.
Also to say he would be comprenhensively beaten by Ortiz, Maidana, Alexander, Bradley etc. Is ludicrious! Devon and Bradley are the only ones that have the abilty to beat Khan. Maidana granted is a thunderous puncher, but lacks even the most basic boxing skills(see Kotelnik fight for proof) and Ortiz is nothing more than decent prospect that was beaten into submission and there are still doubts as to whether he has truly put that behind him.
As I said I am ain’t a huge Khan fan but can see clearly that he is a talented young boxer with the world at his feet. Only weakness is a suspect chin.
@ george… joe calzaghe beat so called top afro amer/ black boxers roy jr, b-hop, jeff lacy.. what an overrated euro fighter eh..
just show a loser,never can admit he was wrong in picking khan to lose,he down plays khan accomplishments to makes himself feel better. grow up…….. how old are you ? I dont care for khan but he did the walk, for the talk, lets see what else he can do. he earned it.
I agree, you are very wrong, at 23 years old Khan did an excellent Job against Paulie and was not tired, he carried him self very well, and at 23 the best is yet to come ! Watch this space
gilfoid you are complete joke. who ever runs this site should kick you off you know nothing about boxing. get a life.
european boxers are horrible and overated BIG TIME
This division is gonna be full of top fighters they are gonna build them all up to be superstars then cash in on the lot of them. Boxing looks in a really good state at the mo it makes me laf wen mma people say that the sports dying when youv got up and coming fighters like these
I think Khan may need to watch cuts … i think he took too many left hand…
I saw the fight and amir khan did not look tired at all. In fact his workrate was preatty much evan throughout the fight because he was jabbing and throwing hooks.
I think khan needs to put more experience in his resume. He will beat madaina then someone like ortiz will be a good tune up fight to face devon.
Are you guys kidding me or what? This guy was stretched by the ordinary Brendiss Prescott!!! And you think he could beat a guy like Tim Bradley?? Have you seen Bradley’s resume?? World class fighters and he has handled them all!! Did you see what he did to Lamont Peterson? Why don’t Khan fight Lamont Peterson and see what he could do! He just beat the powder puff Malinaggi and you guys are in a up roar…
GILFORD THE IDIOT HAS NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT ANY BOXER EXCEPT FLOYD. GOTTA GET YOUR FACE OUT OF FLOYD’S ARSE AND GET SOME AIR. YOU’RE STINKING THE PLACE, BY THE WAY KHAN EXECUTED HIS GAME PLAN PERFECTLY. BREAK MALIGIRLY DOWN, AND GO FOR THE KILL. PAULA TOOK A BEATING, HA! HA! HA!
you are a tool Scott…ha ha !!! seriously, Scott he was playing a game of chess & thats what made him tired, Scott you forgot to say he looked slow or looked old. Pure nonesense every time
Pathetic. Not one good word to say about Khan ever. Your a tit.
bradley vs alexander and khan vs maidana but bradley is ducking alexander will it ever happen???????????
I didn’t think he looked tired, just a bit nervous perhaps in the first 4-5 rounds.
It was a really solid performance. I found the article rather amusing, it’s not the fight I saw at all.
The writer commented on Khan’s chin, even though he was never troubled during the fight. His stamina is also questioned even though he was on the front foot putting in the work all night. The “good basic fighter” comment is plain silly, he’s a silver medalist with a great amatuer record.
I get the impression the writer doesn’t like Khan and has written a biased article. Poor show.
The marketing machine Scott Gilfoid is at it again writing another button pushing article to get a reaction out of the posters and we fall for it every time.
Anyone else find it hilarious how this guy genuinely believes he know s more about boxing that one of the greatest trainers of all time?
Your absolutely right, why the f*ck would you get marked up in a boxing match? Good points, valid, valid. (sarc.)
What a suprise. Scott is writing off a British fighter and one of boxing’s top prospects.
If I remember rightly, Khan won virtually every round and then stopped Malignaggi. What more do you want him to do? He won easily in his US debut against a former world champion, in his back yard.
Face it Scott. You just hate British boxers. If that had been Dirrell in there you’d be on here saying he was the second coming and about to blow all the opposition out of the water in the next few years.
Your articles are full of sh*t basically.
khan should fight marquez/hatton next he will easy fill out man city ground with 50,000 or 60,000 fans it would be a mega money fight
because it was a tickling contest why hell do you think – did u see Hattons face after Lazcano
bradley vs alexander and the winner to fight khan
Hang on a minute gilfraud i dodnt see you question pacquiao when he faught clottey and came out looking worse then khan. this man gilfraud throws more sh1t at the wall and none of it sticks. the creator of this website must be as dilusuional as scott because to accept this as a decent artical is ludacris
Khan’s stamina is phenominal. He could have gone 20 rounds with Malignaggi. At the end of the day it’s a fight and boxers are going to get bruised and marked, but what matters is that Khan won every round. Paulie himself knew he was outclassed. Things can only get better for Khan, and I think that as he’s maturing physically and getting stronger, his punch resistance will also increase. Not to mention his improved defense.
khan will beat maidana and bradley easy fights, but i like alexander he is good maybe in a year or two they should fight? alexander needs to step up and fight bradley and bradley should stop ducking alexander.
khan age 23 has faught 4 ex world champion in 24 fights and his calling out maidana who is the best puncher at light welterweight and look at bradley who is ducking alexander and calling him self the best who has faught over the hill holt and nate?????
@ Dom – If you noticed Amir Khan is 23 give he guy a chance maybe by 26 he would have fought some great boxers!! Jeez
Next thing you will be saying if he beats Maidana oh Maidana’s not that good he should fight so and so to prove his worth!!
khan will beat maidana thats why he has been calling maidana out but khan wants bradley to fight alexander but bradley is scared of alexander and khan? bradley has no power a small man who likes to use his head in fights
Roach the same man who thinks Pacquiao would beat Floyd Mayweather easily?? The man is going mad slowly, Pacman could’nt hit Mayweather in a phone-box, the man will eat so many counter right hands he will beg Floyd for a left hook.
Nobody respects Khan because he has jumped into stardom having fought absolutely NOBODY!!! I bet anything Maidana knocks him out.
we want braley vs alexander and the winner to fight khan
Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan is the third youngest world champion in British boxing history, Perhaps you would rather he stayed in the UK like John Murray and fought the likes of world beaters in Gary Buckland.
Scott Gilfoid has never laced up gloves in his life and is just a miserable person.
***oli*** its a bit better from you but the word is wet??????
@ Racist card – You can hardly call Paulie aging he is only 29 years. Wish people would give Amir credit he’s 23 and not acheived his full strength and ability yet there is more to come. I bet he is far better than Paulie was at 23.
that’s not oli that wrote that. its warheed. khant khans fans grow up a bit
paulie was just a punch bag in this fight, it was horrible to watch khan use another aging and on the way out fighter to showboat against.
same sh*t, different fight.
who has bradley faught a over the hill holt and nate? and who has alexander faught a over the hill witter the quitter and urango who cant box if you look at this all good boxers are cherry picker
@ Oli
“if you do into the shower, your gonna get hit”
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i rather not shower than
mike u mean dirrell the actor lol……
i want to see the topic change to bradley vs alexander why is bradley ducking alexander? and why is alexander ducking a small man with no power in bradley?
pauly was ranked 5th best light welterweight in the world by boxrec and ring mag and khan school’d him and won by tko even cotto or hatton did’nt do that to him
Does anyone think the talented, awsome, great, next pound 4 pound andre direll ever has a few marks on his face after 11 rounds. i guess wel never hear about it in a gilfoid article…lol
khan said he wants to fight maidana and bradley should step up and fight alexander and the winner fights the winner to be the best at 140
khan was never tired in the fight why dont the publisher change the topic and spice things up? why is bradley ducking alexander
Oli – I don’t think skin comes into it. Gilfoid is just a rubbish writer.
I this Scott Gili-fraud is a blathering idiot. His opinions are non-sensical and his knowledge of boxing is non-existant.
Amir Khan is 23, Went half way around the world and fought Malignaggi in his hometown of New York, Beat him infront of a hostile crowd, He had visa problems, First time fighting abroad and instead of congratulating Khan on a great victory he talks about Khan being “tired and marked up”.
This is world class boxing, You are going to get tired and marked up. Like Khan said “If you go in the shower your going to get hit, You go into a ring your going to get hit”.
Malignaggi fought cotto who couldn’t knock him out… As Amir said when u go in te shower ur gonna get wet… When u go into a fight ur gonna get hit!! Give the guy credit where he deserves it… Malignaggi didn’t win one round!! I really begin to question the writers they have on this site…
..well 10 and a bit
because thats what happens when you box a professional for 12 rounds
Maybe because in UK time it was the middle of the night. Also this strange deal about his visa prevented him from training. If i didn’t know i would say it was all done on purpose.
I’ll have a stab in the dark and say its because he was in a boxing match!
This writer is an idiot . Khan did not looked tired he was firing regularly in round 10 and 11. Also gettin marked up ? Mallinagi may not be powerful he is faster than most fighters so you will expect him to connect and mark someone.
Yeah boxing for 11 rounds with anyone usually puts a mark on your face… Scott you havent even laced up gloves, join a club and see what you’ll look like