How good is Amir Khan?

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  1. 22JM

    22JM Boxing Addict Full Member

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    And still greater than Horn and David Diaz lol
     
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  2. UniversalPart

    UniversalPart Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Oh yeah....those ATGs(!)
     
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  3. Pakkuman

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    And Clenelo still fought a shot and drained Kovalev with a rehydration clause instead of Bivol or Beterbiev.

    :deal:
     
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  4. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    He should fight him then
     
  5. DoubleJab666

    DoubleJab666 Dot, dot, dot... Full Member

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    The Khan up until 2011 was on a path to potential greatness. The career of Khan post-2011 has gradually become a joke and then a parody. His obsession with fighting Mayweather and the time he wasted on pursuing (more accurately 'waiting for') this fight killed his career and motivation.

    Nothing sums this up better than his switch to being trained by Hunter - a coach notorious for demanding his boxers take an all-year-round approach to the sport yet lamenting he didn't see Khan for months.

    Then finally, vs Crawford, how Khan dealt with the blow to the inner thigh. Whatever anyone might think as to why he did that (real pain or a way out from a fight he was losing) the Khan from the first and middle part of his career would not have chosen to 'quit'... he would have walked right back into the heat.

    It's a shame, but overall he's been a disappointment, with two caveats: He gave us exciting fights and was a true warrior until that passion for battle badly waned...
     
  6. Webbiano

    Webbiano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I honestly couldn’t believe a lot of people were favouring Kovalev to be honest.

    I do have a bit of sympathy in the fact that Kovalev had been a champion for a while and had fought BHop and Ward so he was a much bigger draw.
     
  7. ashishwarrior

    ashishwarrior I'm vital ! Full Member

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    Then the truth of the matter would prove Khan and his fanboys wrong


    I remember I've joined matchroom and I'm coming for you brook meeting
    To then quickly leave the ring lol
     
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  8. George Crowcroft

    George Crowcroft He Who Saw The Deep Full Member

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    Not even close to top 150. Probably not 250.
     
  9. Pakkuman

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    Kovalev's decline was swift and brutal. Got knocked out by Ward, Eleider Alvarez, and then was on the verge of being stopped by a prospect. Not only did Kovalev have a very short break after the Yarde fight, but Clenelo hung a crippling rehydration clause around his neck. Kovalev was a shell of himself, which was why Clenelo selected him. The Kovalev before Ward 2 would have slept Clenelo.
     
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  10. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    He was half way out the ring before he even finished the sentence lol
     
  11. ashishwarrior

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    Looked like he really wanted it eh lol Khan and his fans are delusional
     
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  12. miniq

    miniq FURY COMETH 2026 Full Member

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    Khan is giving Brook the Floyd treatment.
     
  13. ashishwarrior

    ashishwarrior I'm vital ! Full Member

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    lol khan aint floyd

    khan hiding his insecurities
    i remember floyd signing with goldenboy and telling khan hes coming for him

    floyd said khan sorts his garcia problems out and he will be considered
    he ran to fight tick overs whilst all the while telling the world he wants that garcia rematch

    like he told the world hed fight brook

    like he said he held his own with ward

    like he said he got the better of manny at the wc

    its come out that pac slept him on the often
    lol

    khan is an out an out liar
     
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  14. PIPO23

    PIPO23 Loyal Member Full Member

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    Offensively he was a C- not that great in any department just average wasn't slick for a guy with poor power and chin he sure likes to mix it up but gets caught a lot.

    I think he was a fast handed no power and no chin to back up his shoe shine flurries.
     
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  15. Wizbit1013

    Wizbit1013 Drama go, and don't come back Full Member

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    Without being Floyd, it dont work
     
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