By Shaun La: Amir Khan (30-3 with 19 knockouts) has a name in boxing that backs up a solid amateur record, experience in the Olympics and a professional career that has had momentum, pitfalls and a couple of comebacks. Flat out, Khan has the speed and power that can catch any given opponent to the point that it can offer them problems throughout any given round.
Aside from this, Khan has a skeptical chin and during moments within some of his bouts, he has lost focus that can be attributed to his lack of defense that can sway, because he becomes comfortable with being speedier than his opposition. When you hear him speak, his platform of confidence is often progressively developed, that he believes that he should be matched up against Floyd Mayweather Jr., Manny Pacquiao, and his latest suggestion has been that he would meet Miguel Cotto at a catch-weight of 155 pounds.
Here is the thing, Amir Khan needs to box Kell Brook. Of course, this need won’t happen with Brook’s next bout, due to his outside of the ring injury that placed him into recovery time, while making a title defense against Jo Jo Dan. Khan is in a waiting game right now, but he does have eagerness to box within the early part of this year. After they resolve their keeping busy bouts that does not include them facing one another, the Khan vs. Kell bout should take place. Being that this is the boxing world, I can completely relate to the fans who still are not won over on Amir Khan placement in the welterweight division. He looked exceptionally strong against a game Luis Collazo and a slower but experienced former champion, Devon Alexander—the jury is still out in the deliberation room when it comes to Khan having a serious chance on being able to soundly defeat a Floyd Jr. or a Manny Pacquiao. This is a kind of unfair measurement stick, because Floyd Jr. and Pacquiao are the elite, and any boxer contrasted against them, would be placed in the odds column. In a modern sense, Khan appears to have a chemistry with his boxing coach Virgil Hunter, who has Khan handling the welterweight size, free from hassle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWqESHUJPmI
Now let us go back to Kell Brook (33-0 with 22 knockouts), again, who I believe would be the ideal opponent for Khan, preferably later this year. What I see in Brook is a very basic boxer who has precise timing. When you look at Brook’s ring generalship, it is calculating to the realization that he distributes his punches with a timed out pace that would agitate any welterweight. Brook is a boxer with composure (which kindly reminds me of a Marvin Hagler, George Foreman or an early Roberto Duran in terms of how he make every punch count), not boring, because he will fight back and not fall away into a safety net when the tides turn. There is a durable defense that Brook has as well. He is a boxer who behaves by reflecting the fundamentals in basic boxing that sheds insight into his boxing education being linked to the Sheffield style with a Brendan Ingle’s pugilist foundational base.
When you look at the both of them having a United Kingdom fan base and when one realizes the mammoth success that the Carl Froch vs. George Groves II at Wembley Stadium in London, England ended up doing by bringing in 80,000 people that represented a live attendance count—this is the sort of bout that the winner from a Khan or Brook bout could easily dispense as bait for pulling in a Floyd Jr. or Pacquiao future boxing showdown.
The disregard that Khan tosses towards Brook whenever the topic comes up is kind of ironic, because Floyd Jr. does the same disregarding of Khan’s pay-per-view potential. How can Khan answer Floyd Jr’s. disregard? Look at the potential of joining forces with Kell Brook so that Wembley Stadium can be filled to the capacity with 80,000 boxing fans in live attendance, supporting the sweet-science. It is honorable of Khan to want to come into America and give his best to Floyd Jr. I am sure that it would be an entertaining bout, because the speed vs quickness would be outstanding to view in a boxing contest. Pacquiao vs. Khan would be intense for the mere fact that power vs. speed can be pure excitement. Cotto vs. Khan should not happen, because catch-weight bouts usually have one boxer suffering to meet the weight; thus fulfilling the possibility of a disadvantage, which can be a certitude in making a catch-weight bout seem lopsided.
There is already a grudge of unfriendliness between Khan and Brook. In the past, when Brook mentioned his target of wanting to box Khan before convincingly winning the IBF welterweight title from the sharp boxer, Shawn Porter—Khan always used the reality that he has clutched championship belts before, so he believed that there is no incentive in greeting Brook inside of a boxing ring. Now, Brook has a respectable IBF welterweight belt; also, he can box and he can help fill up the seats inside of Wembley Stadium.
Khan, if you and Brook can get beyond your keeping busy bouts (Brook has Jo Jo Dan 34-2 with 18 knockouts lined up with a yet to be scheduled date and time, Khan is still searching for an opponent), and arrange to meet later on this year, it would be hard to ignore the bragging rights of a winner who can declare that they filled a stadium with 80,000 boxing fans. Floyd Jr. love to talk numbers & he would have to take the resultant of 80,000 people in a stadium to see you box as an impression that earns some serious business consideration and Pacquiao has already proved that he will box in the U.S.A or in Asia, so why not try England? But before they take on a Floyd Jr. or a Manny Pacquiao, Khan and Brook need to take care of who will be crowned the best welterweight boxer in the U.K., first and foremost.
A past sit down with Kell Brook and Amir Khan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lh6UPyTeCY&feature=youtu.be
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