Kerry Davis thinks that Khan has the ingredients to be a star
May 17th, 2010
By Sean McDaniel: Kerry Davis, the senior vice president of sports programming for HBO, liked what he saw of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s 11th round stoppage victory over Paulie Malignaggi last weekend. In an article by writer Gareth Davies of the Telegraph.co.uk, Davis said “He [Khan] has an extremely telegenic style. Speed sells; Power sells. And he has both in abundance. I was surprised that he was faster than Paulie [Malignaggi]. Paulie adjusted after a few rounds, but his speed even so is very impressive. He’s very fast. It portends to some very exciting match-ups down the road, whether that be [Marcos] Maidana, [Timothy] Bradley or [Devon] Alexander. They are fights I would pay to see as a boxing fan.”
In other words, all soft punchers who were of little threat to Khan’s sometimes brittle chin. That’s just the way it is. You can whitewash it any way you want, but Khan has been matched against pretty much light punchers since the Prescott fight. Khan did call out the hard hitting Maidana after Khan’s win over Malignaggi last Saturday night, but unfortunately Maidana has a hurt back and there’s a question whether he’ll be able to fight Khan any time soon. Khan wants to fight again in July, making it very tough for the injured Maidana to be ready by then. Khan’s promoter Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions is looking at matching Khan up against a lightweight, Michael Katsidis instead of putting him in with the top light welterweights.
That probably won’t do much for establishing Khan’s credibility as a future star other than proving that he can beat a shorter, smaller lightweight, who would be forced to move up in weight to fight Khan. It would be sad if Khan keeps beating these people that are put in with him only to get knocked cold once he’s matched against a top light welterweight like Maidana, Bradley or Alexander. This is why I think it’s a bad idea for Khan to fight Katsidis, even though I think it would be a much better fight than his bout against Malignaggi. Picking a lightweight reeks of cherry-picking and that’s something that Khan doesn’t need after fighting a 36-year-old Barrera, Fagan, Kotelnik, Salita and Malignaggi. Khan needs to take on one of the top fighters in the light welterweight division to show fans that he’s for real.
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@ afr:
Completely agree. Khan has now cemented his place as a top fighter in the LWW division by beating a good fighter in Malignaggi, despite lack of power.
Now it makes sense to put khan in with maidana, bradley and alexander. he has sent out a statement.
I personally think khan could beat maidana by outboxing him.
maidana is slow and purely a slugger. with and improved defence and style he could make an even bigger statement against him.
if marquez or hatton fight amir khan in the uk i think khan can fill man city ground even 50,000 or 60,000 ppl it would be a mega fight for us uk fans
khan should fight hatton or marquez next i know marquez already duck’d khan but now its a money fight and marquez knows he can make alot of money and have a chance to be a four weight world champion at 140 we all know he was slow at 147 but this is 7 pounds under so he has a chance so marquez step up to the plate and fight khan we all know the kid is fast but can the kid beat you
This will hold true when Floyd fought Marquez but it was even worst then because Marquez had to fight two divisions higher and had to put on a lot of weight which considerably slowed him down..yet, Floyd came in 2 lbs heavier! And what a fair play he is talking about!
Well, to be fair, he didn’t ask Marquez to undergo random blood test, did he? Even if Marquez admitted drinking his own pee!
khan is special…britain shud be thankful for him becoz he will be the greatest boxer to come out of england, way better then bum hatton and even naz…mark my words
uk only have two good world champions in amir khan and david haye all the rest like kevin glass chin mitchell and murray just fight bums i will give murray the credit when he fights a world champion but now he is just fighting bums like mitchell to build his record up look at khan he is only 23 with 24 wins and he is fighting world champions and if you look at mitchell age 26 with 31 fights still fighting bums and murray age 26 with 29 fights still fighting bums my point is mitchell and murray are older then khan and have more fights then khan so why are there still fighting bums and why dont we give credit where it is due with amir khan who fly’s the uk flag and fights for us
where is ***oli and ashish the indian f**k i dont see them on here now khan will fight the best and he said he wants to fight the best he has great speed very fast hands and power i cant believe pauly took all them shots if it was maidana it would of been lights out for maidana who doe’nt have a great chin anyway great fight guys you need to watch amir khan live to see he is the best out there at 140 he will beat bradley and alexander but i think he needs abit more time two more fights i think next year he will be ready for them but he can beat maidana now he only needs to box
hey guys i’m back from new york and what did i say he will stop pauly and he did and forget about the tko he gave pauly a beating of his life not even cotto or hatton could do what amir khan did to pauly and what did i say about mitchell he is a bum with a glass chin its easy to build your records up fighting bums but when you come across a good fighter like katsidis and he is not a world champion yet? i knew he would lose and lose by knock out mitchell is damage goods now lets see what happens to murray when he steps it up another bum
Leanne all you go on about is maidana all he is, is a big hitter nothing else if Kahn ever does fight him he will totally expose him and jab the face clean off him!! Katsidis would be a harder fight for Kahn
Okay you guys who say Khan ‘only beat a feather fisted opponent’ – why did Diaz not stop Malinaggi? Or a prime Cotto?
Khan beat who was put in front of him, that’s what he does.
Maybe his ‘team’ are protecting him a bit, but Khan is game for anyone. Plus: he’s only 23 so give the kid a break. He’d knock all you guys out with a jab. Prescott just caught him walking on to shots, I know he hasn’t got the best chin, but I don’t subcribe to this ‘glass jaw’ nonsense.
Weird how paulie has been EXPOSED by 2 brit boxers,hmm….and who the f..k is maidena???nothing but a crude midget version of that other argentine bum from yester-year. juan roldan.
The gentleman may possably be correct in his statement, but he will have to stay well clear of any big hitters to accomplish it.
They’re really hyping Up Amir Khan arent they?!!! Well done Boy.
Katsidis would be an intersting fight. Though Amir should come out on top, it would still be good to face someone like Katsidis before the bigger tests. We all know Katsidis can punch, he’s an all action fighter and this would be an entertaining fight which i would be happy to see.
Katsidis will catch Khan on numerous occasions and it will be reassuring that Khan can atleast take these punches, though as i said before, Katsidis is a heavy handed puncher and can be dangerous
look khans 23 years old he is in no rush. people think his got a glass jaw. when he got ko he wa fighting lightweight he had to lose muscle not fat. he will unify the the 140 division. then go up and do the same…………
all amere con has done is prove he can beat an opponent who is feather fisted. we already knew that. he did come from england. so he hasn’t shown us anything new. if he wants to prove something, fight Timothy Bradley. Bradley is a smart boxer, that doesn’t have bone crushing power. but he does have enough power to be able to drop amere con.
Khan has power in abundance?? What the excuse for not knocking out man who’s face was an easy target the entire fight?
Well after talking with quite a few American boxing fans, reading some American news and sports news articles and treckin through a few websites id say its job well done for Khan and GBP.
They wanted Khan highlighted and in a good manor and id say hes done that.
I agree, but it’s just not going to happen ‘cos Khan is all hype. Simple.
He can call out who he wants. We don’t want to see him calling people out, we want to see him FIGHT them!!!