Amir Khan or Devin Alexander - Who's had the best career?

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Amir Khan or Devon Alexander - Who's had the better career?

  1. Khan

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  2. Alexander

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  1. TNAjersey

    TNAjersey Original Member banned Full Member

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    Had quite similar careers . Both known for multiple losses , mostly been losers at the top level. Both kinda became jokes quickly after initial hype. Both haven't won a world title fight for a very long time. Any 'prime' was very short lived and benefitted fron the weak 140 division where at the time literally anybody was picking up a belt there.

    Khan has the win over a non prime Alexander. But Alexander became a 2 weight world champion (140 & 147). And he beat Marcus Maidana with absolute ease winning every single round. Whereas Khan went life and death with Maidana and probably shouldve been stopped, and could only win a title in one division, welterweight was far too tough for him. Devon had the far better chin and has a win over Matthysse, Khans been Ko'd loads of times.

    I think Devon had the better career
     
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  2. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Khan was the man at 140 after he beat Maidana

    Alexander cried after getting headbutted by Timmeh who then avoided Khan

    Khan by far

    140 was not weak at that time, Bradley, Khan, Alexander, Maidana, Matthyse and more. Floyd & Pac could have even made that weight but Welterweight was even weaker! so they took refuge there.

    Alexander beat the worst out of shape Maidana ever & hugged him to death

    Whilst the undefeated Bradley & Alexander stunk the joint out, Khan was having FOTY's.
     
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  3. TNAjersey

    TNAjersey Original Member banned Full Member

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    @miniq you don't exactly have an unbiased view lol. you're a Khan fanboy

    Alexander was a 2 weight world champ. Thats possibly enough alone to be above Khan!. Add to that the differences in the Maidana fights. Devon made Maidana look stupid ( and it was the exact same pre Garcia trained plodding Maidana who gave Khan fits,)

    140 was weak as hell at the time hence why bums like Gavin Rees, Souleymane Mbaye, Andreas Kotelnik, Junior Witter ( 4 euro level fighters) were playing pass the parcel with the belts. And a long list of other weak fighters held titles at 140 around that time
     
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  4. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    Division strength is not defined by where or what the belts are doing. Doesn't Manuel Charr still hold a HW belt? I don't know and I don't care!

    Most true boxing fans don't care what belts are doing.

    Unless it's a WBC special belt.

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  5. The G-Man

    The G-Man I'm more of a vet. banned Full Member

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    I think the poll will disagree with the thread starter.

    never cared for Devon Alexander.
     
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  6. TNAjersey

    TNAjersey Original Member banned Full Member

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    @miniq

    weak as ****! It was the Easiest division to pick up a world title for many years

    world champions at 140 were
    Cesar Cuenca, Gavin Rees, Amir Khan, Devon Alexander, Past it retired fat Erik Morales, past it Ricky Burns, Junior Witter, Souleymayne Mbaye, Lovemore N'dou, Jessie Vargas, Julius Indogno, Lamont Peterson, Andreas Kotelnik, Paulie Malignaggi, Juan Urango, Chris Algieri, Kendall Holt, Mike Alvarado, Danny Garcia, Riccardo Torres, Carlos Maussa, Vivien Harris, Adrien Broner, Khabib Allakhverdiev, Viktor Postol, past it Zab Judah, Eduard Troyanovksy, Maurice Hooker


    Indongo & Khan = the two weakest unified champs ever in the history of boxing! because of how weak 140 was.

    Everyone knows why Khan ducked the world champions at lightweight to move up to 140. And everyone could see 147 was always far too tough for him
     
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  7. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    You still talking about belts?

    Go fanboy over Broner or someone then.
     
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  8. TNAjersey

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    his top 2 wins over Maidana ( the way he beat him so easily) and Matthysse. Plus the fact he got knocked out far less and won world titles in 2 divisions surely put him ahead of Khan
     
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  9. Willie Maeket

    Willie Maeket "40 Acres and Mule" -General William T. Sherman Full Member

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    Khan definitely had the hype machine behind him but both him and Alexander had respectable careers in boxing. Clearly Khan made the most fighting the same quality of opponents but they are on equal level's.
    Best career goes to Amere Con, just kidding, but Khan got paid a lot of money and that's the point of this sport in it's essence. They were trying to capture what was lost during the Hamed run when Khan came over to the U.S.. Hamed wasn't the greatest featherweight in boxing but he was the highest paid featherweight in history. Khan was the highest paid 140 fighter this far to my knowledge.
     
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  10. miniq

    miniq AJ IS A BODYBUILDING BUM Full Member

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    You need to be careful with that pay talk or soon we'll be putting Jake Paul above Terence Crawford
     
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  11. The G-Man

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    The Maidana win was impressive no doubt altough that was the worst showing of the argie’s career(he had well known trainer issues at the time).
    The Matthysse win was highly debatable.Most would say robbery.
    His world titles were paper belts,he never was the man in any division.
    Khan has the better quality,longevity and quite obviously style points.
    Why do you think 70% of people disagree with you?
     
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  12. lufcrazy

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    Khan and its not close.

    Khan had an entertaining career and fought some top names.

    He was never the best in the world at any given point, but he was a very solid top 5 fighter for a number of years.
     
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  13. navigator

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    Well, don't forget the differences in the Kotelnik fights. Devon was the recipient of a large gift, whereas Khan barely lost a round.

    I'm not saying you don't have a case, though. There's definitely a decent discussion to be had here.
     
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  14. exocet76

    exocet76 Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Khan easy. would have made far more money ore exciting to watch had a far bigger following.
    Also comparing how they went against one common opponent is a bit silly and just factually wrong for a multitude of reasons.
     
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  15. Perkin Warbeck

    Perkin Warbeck Boxing aficionado Full Member

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    Kotelnik was robbed against Alexander.
     
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