By William Mackay: Kevin Cunningham, the trainer for unbeaten WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s), isn’t worried about Alexander beating up WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) after Alexander gets through with defeating WBO light welterweight champ Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) this Saturday night at the Pontiac Silverdome, in Michigan. Cunningham wants the big names, Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Juan Manuel Marquez for his fighter Alexander, and sees Khan as not among those guys.

In an article at examiner.com, Cunningham said this about Khan: “Khan and [Marcos] Maidana, they gave it their all. Maidana is limited. he’s a limited fighter. I mean, he hits good, but in terms of skills, he is limited. Very limited. Khan ran in and threw his flurry of combinations then he ran around the ring. He fights like an amateur. He jumps in, throws combinations, and runs around the ring. That’s what Amir Khan does. There’s nothing hard to figure out about him.”

Cunningham is right about Khan’s style of fighting. He has no inside game other than when he sometimes throws to the body. Mainly, Khan likes to shove his opponents really hard when they get in close, and I’ve yet to see him get penalized for shoving his opponents and getting distance. That kind of thing is supposed to controlled by the referee, yet Joe Cortez, the referee that was working Khan’s fight with Maidana in December, allowed Khan to frequently shove Maidana when they were in close order to keep him from landing on the inside. Khan’s flurries often hit air, but they do impress the judges, as we saw in the Maidana fight.

Alexander and Cunningham don’t see anything about Khan that they’re worried about. They’re obviously going to take the fight with Khan after the Bradley fight, because HBO wants that match-up and there will be good money, but the fight they want is a bout against Marquez, Mayweather or Pacquiao after they dispatch Khan and end the hype once and for all.