By William Mackay: WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia saw Amir Khan’s win last Saturday night over the smaller lightweight Carlos Molina, and Garcia says Khan looks pretty much the same as he always has in his past fights. Garcia noted that Khan is still getting hit a lot despite having a new trainer in Virgil Hunter, who Khan maintains has improved him dramatically on defense.

Garcia said to Radio Raheem “He [Khan] did what he had to do. I guess the smaller guy [Molina] can’t punch. To be honest, I saw the same Amir Khan. He was getting hit a lot with punches, but the guy couldn’t hurt him because he was a smaller guy with no power.”

I agree with Garcia. Khan looked like the same fighter to me. He was still rushing in, throwing flurries, and getting way too involved in going to war. Perhaps Khan only did this because Molina can’t punch, but I think it’s more of case of Khan being resistant to change.

It’s like someone saying they’re going to stop smoking and then the next second they’ve got cigarette in their mouth and they’re puffing away. The changes that I saw with Khan’s fighting style were only cosmetic. He backed off every now and then in a kind of robotic manner, but much of the time he was still opening himself up for shots by throwing combinations and flurries.

Khan was lucky he a punching bag with no power, no size and no speed in the ring with him because it could have been another knockout loss for Khan if he fought someone with some decent power.

Khan has been talking nearly nonstop about how he’s changed his fighting style, and fixed his leaky defense, but it’s pretty clear that this is the same Khan that was knocked out by Garcia last July. There’s not enough of a change in Khan’s fighting style to keep him from getting knocked out again. It’s like Joe Frazier when he fought George Foreman for the second time. Frazier made some changes to his game by fighting more defensively, but it wasn’t enough to keep him from getting knocked out again.