Chisora: Khan needs to shut up about his loss already

By Boxing News - 01/11/2012 - Comments

Image: Chisora: Khan needs to shut up about his loss alreadyBy Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight Derek Chisora if officially sick of all the squawking from fellow Brit Amir Khan about his loss to Lamont Peterson last month. Khan has been complaining long and hard for almost a solid month now and has even enlisted the help of his powerful promoters from Golden Boy to help get his precious titles back and his loss overturned upon repeal to the IBF and WBA.

Chisora said this to thesun.co.uk about Khan and his constant complaining: “Loads of fighters get robbed but its how you come back – that’s the most important thing. So Amir Khan needs to shut up, put his gloves on, train hard and then go and knock that guy out in less than four rounds.”

I agree with Chisora. Khan needs to shut his yapper and put a sock in it already. No one wants to hear his crying and I think we’ve already memorized all of Khan’s excuses by now. It’s all been a good laugh but the guy needs to zip his lip, look in the mirror and face reality about what really happened in the Peterson fight.

Khan got exposed big time. Once he looks at the truth about how he can’t fight on the inside and has to resort to fouling to try cover that up, he’ll be a lot better off. Khan can then work his way from bottom and maybe become a decent fighter if he can learn to stop running, shoving, holding & hitting, putting his opponents in headlocks and yanking the heck out of their heads whenever they get close.

If you can remove all those god awful fouling tactics from Khan, maybe he’d be a decent fighter. But I think it would be like a house of card where you take away the foundation and everything collapses from there. I think Khan is being held together by his different techniques he’s been able to get away with from the passive referees that have worked his fights. He literally couldn’t stop fouling even when referee Joe Cooper warned him repeatedly and took a point away from him.

Khan continued to foul and the referee continued to warn him until he finally took a second point away. That tells me that the fouling that Khan does is too embedded in his game and he can’t exist without these techniques. It’s pretty sad that a great trainer like Freddie Roach hasn’t broken Khan from these fouling habits, but then again maybe Roach is overrated as a trainer. He has to be in order for Khan to still look this awful after two years of being under Roach’s guidance.



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