Amir Khan vs Carlos Molina [POST FIGHT TALK]

Training with Virgil is tough and now I know why @andreward is unbeatable. I'm working on new methods of training I never knew existed.

 

One of my good friends leaves me a PM on facebook:

AMIR KHAN is in hayward, CA!!! That's only an hour drive away from where i'm at! I'm about to hit that hayward gym to make funn of amir "glass chin" khan hahahah!

 

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He's cool. I guess I know where he's coming from as well. He just needs Ariza back to extend his boxing career.

 

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You have to go through a lot to recapture world championships. Then there's boxer's who just get handed interim belts etc. w/o fighting or get offered easy elimnator fights.

 

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Bunce:

Roach has been teaching him things ever since. All Hunter can do is make sure that when Khan leaves the changing room, he hasn't left his brain behind. Khan needs to be told not to fight like a fool. Hunter must do what Angelo Dundee did with George Foreman: remind him what he has forgotten. If you hear Khan and Hunter saying how much is being learned, then trust me, they're lying.

Will Khan listen to Hunter, having apparently stopped listening to Roach? Well, it's a chicken-and-egg situation: did Roach stop bothering, causing Khan to stop listening - or did Khan decide a while ago he'd had enough? Perhaps there's nothing to suggest Khan is a bad listener.

Roach was the flavour of the month after he initially turned Khan's career around; Hunter will be when Khan wins his first fight under him. But if and when Khan struggles in a rematch with Lamont Peterson or Danny Garcia, then Hunter will be sacked because he's spending too much time with Ward. That's boxing for you.

Khan is at the stage now where, once again, he has a great trainer in his corner. He's relying on Hunter to give him timely reminders, and produce strategies on the fly during the 60 seconds between rounds.

Khan needs to be told to keep his hands up, not lunge forward when throwing shots, and to pick his punches better. No disrespect, but an 11-year-old boy will hear that not long after his first trip to a boxing gym. So I say it again: Hunter can't teach him anything.

Dundee wasn't the greatest trainer in the world in the sense he got up at 5am and went running with fighters - he didn't have to. He didn't do 500 rounds on the pads or watch hundreds of rounds of sparring. In the hours before a fight and minutes between rounds, that's when he helped his fighters. Hunter must be similar, because at the moment Khan is losing bouts before a punch has been thrown.

My gut feeling is that the Hunter appointment means at least two bouts in America for Khan and, assuming he gets a good world title, down the line he could meet Ricky Hatton in England. If there's a reason for a super-fight in Britain, there will be one. At the moment there's no real reason for Khan to enter the ring in Britain.

Carlos Molina, his December opponent, wouldn't have been my choice - but then I'm not one of Khan's paymasters at HBO. The network will want a good fighter: they won't let him come back after two defeats against cannon fodder. They're going to make it look like a real contest.

Molina is unbeaten, which always works: that's what TV executives want. There are far better fighters who have lost a couple - but they don't have that precious unbeaten record.

 

Doesn't Bunce know fight is on SHOWTIME?

 

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