By Chris Williams: While there are a number of boxing fans who felt that Amir Khan should have held onto his IBF/WBA light welterweight titles last weekend against Lamont Peterson, trainer Floyd Mayweather Sr. isn’t one of them.

He saw Peterson as the better fighter in that bout, and felt that Khan fought in a wild manner, lacking discipline and wasting a lot of energy.
Mayweather Sr. told examiner.com “I thought the fight was the right call. I thought [Peterson] was hitting to the body a whole lot and he hit him with some good, solid shots. [Peterson] was just a better fighter than him…Overall, I think the better man won. No way in hell would I have Amir fighting like that. Amir Khan was all over the place, throwing crazy, wild-ass punches and I’ve seen some women fight way better than that.”

Khan did look awfully sloppy in there against Peterson and used a lot of energy in the first half of the fight needlessly with his constant movement, punches thrown without aim and all the grabbing of Peterson. Khan was an embarrassment to boxing with that performance. He looked like an uncoordinated amateur, someone with two left feet.

It may be that Khan needs a better trainer to settle him down because his current trainer Freddie Roach hasn’t altered Khan’s style much at all, and he’s still very raw despite the two years that Roach has been working with him.

Khan lost by a 12 round split decision to Peterson and gave away a couple of rounds by fouling. Khan still hasn’t acknowledged doing anything wrong by pushing Peterson, and that’s kind of worrisome because it’s painfully obvious that Khan was breaking rules from the first 30 seconds of the fight when he first started fouling.

Before Khan started training with Freddie Roach, he briefly met with Mayweather Sr. to see on possibly training with him. But instead, Khan chose to work with Roach.

I think Khan would be a lot better fighter under Mayweather’s helm because he would have made Khan a much defensive fighter, harder to hit and a lot more under control. There wouldn’t be the wasted motion, the wild punches, and all the frantic running around the ring like a chicken with its head cut off.

It’s not too late for Khan to cut his losses with Roach and move onto an excellent trainer.

Mayweather Sr. added “All I can say is he [Khan] needs some more work, a lot of work matter of fact.”

I second that opinion. Khan fights like a wild man, and that’s not a good thing.