Schaefer: I’ve always believed Khan can become a top pound-for-pound fighter in the world

By Boxing News - 12/16/2012 - Comments

003KhanvictoryIMG_5867(Photo credit: Tom Casino/Showtime) By William Mackay: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer was really pleased with Amir Khan’s comeback win over Carlos Molina last Saturday night in Los Angeles. Khan gave the smaller Molina a real beating en route to a 10th round stoppage. The fight was the equivalent of watching Khan hit a little heavy bag with arms. It was that one-sided, and you can commend Schaefer on his skillful matchmaking or damn for putting such a fight like this together.

Schaefer said this after Khan’s fight as quoted by Lance Pugmire “I’ve always believed in Amir Khan, and I’ve always believed he can be a top pound for pound fighter in the world.”

I think Schaefer needs to step back and put things into perspective for what Khan just accomplished in the ring. He didn’t invent a cure for cancer; he beat a handpicked little 5’6” fighter with no power from the lightweight division. Khan had a huge size advantage over Molina to go along with his speed and power advantage. That wasn’t a sporting a fight and it was no indication of what will happen when Khan is eventually put back in the ring against someone with a lot more size, speed and power than the little Molina.

It’s hard to take Schaefer seriously as a promoter when he’s talking about Khan as a pound for pound fighter when he came into fight with Molina having lost his last two fights, with one of them being a knockout. Beating Molina proved nothing at all.

Schaefer said at the post fight press conference that he doesn’t consider Khan’s loss to Lamont Peterson as a loss, as he thinks Khan won that fight, and he believes that Khan wouldn’t have been knocked out by Danny Garcia if Khan hadn’t been hit in the neck by a big left hook from Garcia.

Khan lost to Peterson because he couldn’t handle his pressure and had resort to fouling by shoving off and pulling down on his head all night. And Khan was going to get knocked out by Garcia no matter what happened in that fight. Garcia would have gotten to Khan eventually even if he didn’t flatten him in the 4th. It was clear that the knockout was going to happen soon because Khan was getting hit more as the fight progressed.



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