By Chris Gary: Reading the reactions to last Saturday’s fight of Amir Khan vs. Marcos Maidana it seems to me that the majority of American boxing fans know nothing of the sport.

How anyone can say Khan didn’t deserve to win the fight is beyond me Khan was the quicker more active Boxer and landed more punches than Maidana and he proved he had more heart than anyone had expected. Everyone saw that Khan was troubled in the last three rounds but Khan had dominated seven rounds and the other two were equally shared and the people who said there were boos coming out of the crowd must have fantastic hearing cause all I heard were thousand of cheers and the boy from Bolton did a nation proud and proved he had a chin to the world and more importantly to himself.

The United Kingdom are bringing some major prospects coming into the sport as well which again the Americans seem to dismiss and write off without actually watching them which amazes me because of the likes of Kell Brook, Nathan Cleverly, Frankie Gavin and Jame Degale as well as having Carl Froch ( I don’t actually like but somehow he seems to win ) David Haye and of course Amir Khan.

There is always one boxer that stands out that the Americans slated and said was overrated was Joe Calzaghe and he unified every title in the Super Middleweight and the the ring title in Light Heavyweight he might have fought two old fighters in his last two fight but he was 37 himself and Hopkins was and still is a good fighter and anyone who goes undefeated deserves credit not criticized he might have fought some bad fighters but he also fought the best in the weight class and beat them Mario Veit, Mikkel Kessler, Bernard Hopkins, Roy Jones Jnr, Chris Eubank, Byron Mitchell and at the time the Americans biggest prospect of the time Jeff Lacy and he was the never the same after the lesson Calzaghe taught him so when it comes to boxing there are more boxers outside the USA that will be champions of the sport so keep an eye out on the British Scene.