By William Mackay: WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch feels that Amir Khan needs to go back to the drawing board after his loss to Lamont Peterson last Saturday and improve his skills. And Froch isn’t buying Khan’s excuse that he lost because of the referee and because the fight took place in Peterson’s home city of Washington, DC. Froch felt Khan ran out of gas after running too much around the ring.

Froch told the dailystar.co.uk “I thought the right man won. I was a shame for Khan…He got his tactics wrong towards the end of the fight. He was moving too much at times and I think he ran out of gas a little bit…I don’t think being in Washington is the reason he lost. I feel he just lost the fight anyway…Let’s not forget the guy who beat him lost every round to Timothy Bradley in 2009.”

It’s clear that Khan lost, but I think Froch is wrong about the movement. Khan didn’t run because it was his game plan, he was basically running for his life to keep from getting knocked out. Khan was getting the worst of it each time he would try and stop for any length of time. Khan simply couldn’t handle fighting Peterson in a toe-to-toe fight for more than a couple of seconds without turning tail and running after tasting Peterson’s power shots to the head and body.

I think the body shots were really doing a number on Khan, and he couldn’t handle it. He had to run or else he would have been stopped. Froch thought Khan should have fought Peterson the way he likes to fight his opponents in the pit. Khan doesn’t have the chin or the inside fighting skills to fight like that. All those years in the amateur ranks where Khan got by on just his hand speed alone has left him with underdeveloped inside fighting skills. His inside game is like a wasted away atrophied limb that’s totally useless.

Khan probably will never have an inside game at this point because of all the wasted years where he dominated overmatched opposition with his hand speed alone. He can’t fight guys on the inside and resorted to fouling [using headlocks, arm bars, bending his opponents’ head down and pushing off] to keep from getting knocked out.

Khan still can’t seem to accept that he lost to Peterson and like a person out of touch with reality of what happened last Saturday, Khan blames the referee, the judges and the city of Washington, DC for what happened to him. It’s so sad. Khan is totally out of touch with what happened to him. He says nothing about the bogus knockdown he got credit for in the 1st round, and constantly yaks about how he lost 2 measly points for pushing off over 50 times in the fight.