By Ramzan Ullah: First of all, I want to say what a great fight on Saturday in the capital of boxing. Sin City1 at the Mandalay Bay, without a doubt in my opinion Fight of the Year. WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan did very well to win the fight defeating Marcos Maidana and came through some tough times, even thought many refs would have stopped the fight in the 10th round.

Many people are talking about the referee being very bias, which at first I didn’t notice only because I was so caught up in the fight. I didn’t take notice of the ref, but as the fight did begin, when I saw Joe Cortez, I was like ‘Oh no, this guy shouldn’t be a ref in big fights. I’ve seen many fights were Cortez was the ref, and I felt he ruined them. After watching the fight again, I think Cortez did a poor job in the fight by interrupting the action when Maidana was trying to finish Khan off.

Anyway, regardless of the ref, the fight was magical. Words can’t describe the feeling after watching a fight like that. If only most boxing fights were like that. Even though Khan was running, he still scrapped with Maidana, but Maidana is a beast. By far the most determined fighter I’ve seen in a long. I saw Maidana quit more then once in that fight but his heart didn’t let him quit! He should of won the fight just from getting up from that body shot, which would of ended 90% of boxer out there.

But the biggest thing that I learned after watching that fight was Khan ain’t on his way to be a elite boxer. Don’t get nothing twisted, Khan has get talent and hand speed, good offensive skills but where was the defence? He was getting caught way to easy from a boxer, who hasn’t got much boxing skills. No disrespect to Maidana. He doesn’t need skill. He has something that can’t be gained in no gym and that’s HEART! Anyways, back to Khan’s weakness. Khan lacks REAL punching power. We saw him tag Maidana with many great shots but I didn’t see Maidana take one step back at all. Last but not least this is biggest reason why he ain’t being no elite boxer. He cannot follow a game plan. You think Khan’s trainer Freddie Roach wanted the fight to go like that? No, Khan threw the game plan out the window and did what he did. If he had followed the game plan set by Roach, it would of been a lot easier for him. Khan is easily drawn into fights. Against boxer with great boxing skills, Khan will be hit way too much. But khan is still very young and he can improve, but only time will tell. I have my doubts.

The last thing I wanted to note was, where did Khan get that chin from? I’ve seen Khan floored by weaker domestic level fighters with weaker shots. Now suddenly he’s walking through shots that would normally put him to sleep. They say its because he’s gone up in weight and he has become more resistant to punches. Khan went up in weight by 5lbs, so if that’s the case when khan goes up to 147lbs, he is going to b unstoppable. By then, he could get into a ring with a heavyweight and take their punches from them? let’s be serious. Going up in 5lbs of weight can’t make that much of a difference to your punch resistant, it just put doubts in my head?

Hats off to both fighters, especially Maidana, who was making a fight out of it. Don’t take no credit away from Khan, he did very well to win a boxing match! Damn, I would pay to see this fight again with a different ref, and a big promotion team behind Maidana (Top Rank), that would make it more of a fair fight.

Personally, I had Maidana winning the fight. At the end of the day, I don’t score a boxing fights on points. There is a lot more to the fight then points, and if the fight was to carry on until one fighter was down and out, we all know who that would of been – the king would of been dethroned!

“Amir Khan might of won the fight, but he didn’t win the battle”