By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KOs) has been stopped twice in his career in losses to Breidis Prescott and Danny Garcia. In both cases, a badly hurt Khan was able to get back to his feet before the fight was halted.
Khan was technically not knocked out in the clinical sense, but he so badly hurt in both of his knockout losses that he wouldn’t have likely stayed upright with the first punch he was hit with by Garcia and Prescott.
Khan feels that he wasn’t knocked out like Manny Pacquiao was in his 6th round stoppage loss to Juan Manuel Marquez in 2012. Because of that, Khan questions why boxing fans want to see Mayweather fight Pacquiao instead of him.
In other words, because Khan wasn’t knocked clean out by Prescott and Garcia, he should have fans wanting to see him fight Mayweather just as much, if not more, than Pacquiao fighting Mayweather.
“I wasn’t knocked out. I was on my feet, but then you’ve got Manny Pacquiao, who’s been knocked out cold, and you guys are saying he should be next in line?” Khan said to Fighthype.com.
There’s kind of a difference in Pacquiao’s situation compared to Khan’s. First off, before Pacquiao’s loss to Marquez, he hadn’t been getting hurt left and right and he hadn’t been previously knocked out by a guy named Breidis Prescott. Pacquiao walked into a big shot thrown by a very, very good fighter in Marquez.
Prescott isn’t a great fighter, and his career has really gone downhill since his win over Khan in 2008. Khan was knocked down by Willie Limond in the 7th round in their fight in 2007. In Khan’s fight against Marcos Maidana in 2010, Khan was out on his feet in the 10th and arguably would have been knocked out in that round and in the 11th if the referee Joe Cortez hadn’t kept pulling Maidana off of Khan when he was attempting to finish him off.
Cortez wasn’t letting Maidana work on the inside when he was overwhelming a badly hurt Khan with shots. In Khan’s fight against Danny Garcia, Khan was knocked out in the 4th. Yeah, Khan got back up but he so badly hurt that Garcia could have knocked him down with a feather.
The referee did Khan a huge favor by stopping it when he did because it was only a matter of time where Garcia would have knocked Khan down in the 4th round to where Khan wouldn’t have gotten back up.
Boxing fans would be clamoring for a Mayweather-Khan fight if Khan had come back from his losses to Prescott and Garcia by either facing them again or taken on someone good like Keith Thurman, but we haven’t seen that.
Khan isn’t being matched up against Keith Thurman, and instead he’s been put in with Carlos Molina, Julio Diaz and Luis Collazo. None of those guys are big enough names to make fans forget about Khan’s losses to Prescott, Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia.
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