Khan: “Whoever wants to fight me, just tell them to line up”
May 12th, 2010
By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan wants bigger and better things in the future after he hopefully beats Paulie Malignaggi this Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. The 23-year-old Khan is in a hurry to make a mark in the United States, hopefully against better competition than he’s been facing. Malignaggi is a small step up from the fighters Khan has been facing recently, but not the kind of competition that many of his fans were hoping he would make by now. In an article at ESPN.co, Khan says “Whoever wants to fight me, just tell them to line up, I’ll fight all of them. I’m ready, I’ll hopefully get this guy [Malignaggi] out of the way and my American debut out of the way and then I’ll be ready for all of the other fighters in the division and we’ll just go from there.”
Khan should get by Malignaggi this Saturday. He appears to be the perfectly picked opponent – one with zero power, a low work rate and a constantly moving style of fighting. There’s really no threat at all in Malignaggi and in some ways he could figure to be an even easier fight than his last opponent Dimitri Salita, who Khan stopped in one round. That’s not to say that Khan will be able to knock Malignaggi out in one. That likely won’t happen because Malignaggi will be moving too much for Khan to stop early. However, at least Salita was a slight threat to Khan because he had a tiny bit of power, but Malignaggi has almost zero power.
This means that Khan’s brittle chin won’t be tested in this fight, and it likely won’t get tested in his next fight either with whoever Khan’s promotional team selects for him to fight. I seriously doubt Khan will be fighting Bradley or Alexander next. I think both of those fighters would beat Khan if given the chance. Khan will, unless his chin gives out on him again, look good against the feather-fisted Malignaggi, but it won’t really give you a clear picture of whether Khan is good or not. For that to happen, Khan will have to take a giant step up and face Maidana, Alexander, Bradley or the hard hitting Victor Ortiz next.
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it really makes me sick why bring race issue in this forum…
This is supposed to be a boxing furum so why are certain individuals playing the racist card every time others do not share their views. Dog and King you must be of dark skin colour to keep bringing this up .i say that because you never hear a china man or japanese even a spaniard or german shout racist every chance they can .So try and enjoy the boxing commentry and others views instead of immediately thinking everyone is racist.I for one think Amir Khan has got emmense tallent and exemplary boxing skills but i am yet to be convinced he is or can be the real deal based on what i have actualy witnessed ;unless that chin of his upgraeds big style he is always going to be realy tested with any big hitter and average fighter.And if you know as much about boxing and the fight game as you continualy say you do then surely even you can see my points of view.
King,Is that so!!well no one ask you lot to come here in the first place so feel free to fu** off any time,oh and by the way there no queue waiting to cross the borders of that 3rd world country you like to call home is there and the same can be said of every place you lot have gone to around the world.
@cherry any one
Nah your totally wrong . what u mean half the world dont like you lot. more then half the world dont like you people more like. cause you have a the worst qualites.
you steel, you lie and deceave, you kill and rape and you hate. go study british history from the 13 century.
what planet is this guy on he livin in his own little fantasy land he aint even fought no 1 good yet he,s deluded !
@Chemical King- shut your extreme mouth lad and keep it about boxing. Shame you dont know nothing tho
all i hear is about this guy khan talking a bunch of S**t. if your so bad why didn’t you fight miranda. Who has khan beat? I hope malinagi gives khan a boxing lesson and he goes back to where ever he is from.
Anyway, Maidana is injured si
o he cannot fight Amir anytime soon.
Great boxer El Canelo Alvarez. i saw him on Floyd Mosley pre.
Ali and King, who give F*** whether you call people racist anway!! half the world doesn’t like you f***ing lot,
everyone knows salita didnt deserve a shot at khan, he’s even calling out bradley now, salita who was cowering in the corner at weak and fragile amir khan thinks he deserves another shot at a title.
everyone knew salita was going to get beaten, he was a bum with a glass chin worse than khans.
why is it people think if you’re intelligent and talk about boxing you’re a man. actually you sound like a girl LMAO so why would you do that and pick such a sissy name?
These racists can’t take the fact that an asian is making money and is famous! Even Mitchell the Harami complained that Amir Khan is gettin $1.2 mill and hes getting pennies.
Who did David Haye fight?? Carl Froch fought an old Kessler and lost!
I hope England lose to Sri Lanka Tonight. England = SA + a few asians + a Leprechaun!
Please get ur own sportsmen don’t steal them from others! LEnnox Lewis represented Canada at the Olympics!
My grandma wants to fight you. You are so weak khan. I think you are a downgrade to the human race. You should leave boxing you bloody loser.
i still thinking CANELO ALVAREZ will be a good fight for both and see if this guys are for real,,,,
khan has a glass chin maidana would knock khan out
“line them up, whoever wants to fight me” hahaha, what a joke he is
@AmirNoChinwhiskerKhan
how dare u talk about islam like that. ur a racist and a discrace.
oli i told u to get a job and make money like amir does
khans deluded if he thinks he can take on pacquiao, seems roach agrees with me because he says the khan v pacquiao fight will never happen using the excuse that they are friends.
roach must be getting good at making excuses for khan by now, he managed to convince khans fans that he chose paulie because he’s a bigger name than maidana and not because maidana would have obliterated khans glass jaw with one punch into thousands of tiny shards of glass.
khans ego is racing out of control in these interviews, heshould calm down and stop making out he’s a legend in the making because he’s getting set up for another fall.
I do wish Amir would think about what hes saying and how things are being percieved . Hes not doing himself any favours.
@ Ali- You are a disgrace lad.
What else is a disgrace is this..the Khan extremists call others racist simply for daring to voice our boxing opinions.
Bur Chemical Ali can come on here and openly use directly racist insults, and the Khan loving crew dont say a word.
Paulie UD
Ali
Get over yourself you racist c**t
how about Khan vs Canelo Alvarez
the fact is that all khan haters are puys.
noi crusified Gesù, perché non si.
Amir è uno scherzo. Io ti rompere in pezzi, è stupido.
I will beat anyone, bring on Floyd, Manny and the rest could line up…Alah is king and Mohammad is his prophet….No one but Alah can defeat me…I Alah remade my chin of the hardest iron…lol…..
amir khan is a good boxer but he will never be a great because to be elite u need a good chin mayweather pacquiao all the top dogs got good chins khan’s glass chin will only take him so far
@boss
Yeah but how old is barrera again? Howmuch did barrara have left really?
Khan is a joke. All talk he has speed ill give him that but he hasn’t fought anyone.
Marcos Maidana, Devon Alexander, and Timothy Bradley all wanted to fight A mere Con. However, A mere Con is too much of a coward to fight them. A mere Con only wants to fight aging boxing legends who’s best days were at featherweight. A mere Con is a fraud and a coward.
Amir is getting hideous and too arrogant the following names have something in common, they will all ko him and amir will duck
Maidana
Alexanander
Urango
Mitchell
Alfonzo gomez
Well i was going to say give Prescot another chance, but i see some one of that name already called you out amir.
malignaggi is a slippery character and a step up from any other fighter he has beaten previosuly. malignaggi done a good job on diaz, the very diaz who done a good job on katsidis.
salita was the mandatory, you cant have two mandatory’s back to back so that counts out maidana, then again why fight a dangerous maidana in the future who has no meaningful belt when you can have similar risky fights with alexander or bradley and come out with a prestigious title?
i can only see khan stepping up and fighting either bradley or alexander next win or lose.
he’s believing his own hype. Paulie might not be able to knock him out, but once he grows some cajones and steps up the opposition, he will get eaten alive. so enjoy amere con for now, we won’t be seeing him in 3 yrs.
we have yet to see if khan can hold up…. he looked great against Barrera…. but he has more to prove in order to talk like he has been…
give the guy a break, hes fought lesser opponents, hes only had 25 fights, hatton fought malignaggi in his 46th fight, hes moving fast coz hes got the skills to do it, given time, he will develop into a great fighter, every1 needs to get off this guys back and respect what hes trying to accomplish
“I am your huckleberry” fight me. I am sure you know my name. You sure have a big mouth considering how your resume lack any decent puncher or good fighter.
maidana is so overated when Kotelnik AKA weakest champ in that division beat Maidana easily
He wants to be the next Floyd Jr. build a ppv magnet personality, but….. NEH !!!
dude, can someone put a muzzle on this fool, he hasn´t stopped yapping and is just making him self looking more stupid every time his mouth opens, no wonder nobody likes this dou$che bag in england.
Talk is cheap Amir given your over hype stage manage cherry picked career so far,what people are waiting to see is if you can stand toe to toe with a banger,or will your fights follow the same path as they have done so far with smaller, ageing, light punching, boxers that you’ve be fed so far.
Line them up and he will duck them. With Khan you can only believe it when you see it. Hes talked a lot prior to this fight with Paulie. For his sake i hope he can back it up.
Paulie UD