By Scott Gilfoid: In one of the more hilarious press conferences I’ve ever seen before, Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions, was bragging about his fighter IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan long and hard.

Schaefer said “Watch and see, this you man [talking about Khan] will become pound for pound the best fighter in the world, no question about it. I really have zero questions about that because he has the skills, tremendous power in his punch. He has the heart of a lion and in the [Marcos] Maidana fight, he showed he might have the best chin in the sport of boxing.”

Good God, who are you talking about, man? This can’t be Khan, can it? Schaefer was really pouring it on kind of thick if you ask me. I mean all those qualities Schaefer listed, those couldn’t have been Khan, because he’s the guy that was knocked out in one round by Breidis Prescott and still won’t try and avenge the defeat. Khan is the one that has been kept away from sluggers ever since then apart from his fight against Maidana last year, which you really have to put a question mark over because of the way that referee Joe Cortez kept pulling Maidana away from Khan in the last three rounds when Khan was badly hurt and taking punishment. Khan is the one that hasn’t faced a puncher since the Maidana fight. In other words, Khan has fought one guy with power [Maidana] in the past eight fights and even that win was hardly impressive because Khan was badly hurt, and seemed to be saved by the referee in the last three rounds. Even with the referee getting in the way of Maidana, Khan’s faced looked like he’d been run over by a motorcycle by the end of the fight.

The best chin in boxing? What a laugh. I wonder what Schaefer will come up with next. I do think Schaefer is doing his best to market Khan and put him in fights that he has a chance of winning. Schaefer isn’t putting Khan back in with Maidana, Prescott or putting him in with other fighters that can punch like Mike Alvarado. He seems to be trying to put together a package that the boxing fans might see as a pound for pound number #1, but given that Khan isn’t facing the dangerous punchers and is going to get destroyed by Mayweather next year, I can’t see the boxing public buying into the hype.