Khan's chin has improved massively

Springs on his legs

 

the guys conditioning and preparation have improved, its the thing that kept him upright in the last rounds. i dont think being on ***** street for a quarter of the fight is proof of how sturdy your chin is.
i used to think khans chin was weaker than average and now im sure of it. he does have more heart than i thought he did but i dont think that is going to be enough in the future.
i really was hoping khan would show me something that would pull him ahead of the pack even with his slightly brittle chin, but i got close to what i expected. he is a good boxer with very fast hands who can get got to by less than top tier fighters. manny or floyd would kill him with a 3 week camp.
now that i got my "hatin" out the way, he is fun to watch and should land some high profile fights which he can win as long as its not against the proven daddys of the division.

 

Khan chin is still bad. If it werent for cortez and khan literally running he wouldve been out.

 

My thoughts exactly!

The fight reminded me of Duran v Leonard 1 where SRL wanted to prove himself more than a pittipat hit run flashy dan!

SRL lost that fight but no-one questioned his fighting heart or his ability to mix it up close ever again. In the rematch we saw the "No Mas" performance from SRL and I beleive we would see a simular type of no nonsense all business dismantling of Maidana if he were to face Khan again.

Khan took everything that M could throw at him and he was hurt but never disoriented enough to be helpless from the follow up. He also recovered pretty quick in the tenth and then between ten and eleven.

MM is probably the biggest puncher in the division and he landed clean and often, I doubt anyone else will be allowed to land that often again and if they do they won't have the same power as MM so Khan looks a safe bet to unify.

 

What the jesus ****.

Are some of you people ****ing high or something?

How can you say Khan has a bad chin anymore when he took several flush shots on the chin by the hardest puncher in his division who has a 90% KO ratio and didn't go down once.

Can someone please enlighten me?, am I not getting something here?

 

yes im high, but thats besides the point. maidana had to fight everyone in the ring to get to khan and still managed to do so. his first taste of what the big boys can do and he barely kept the crack in his chin from spreading. i just dont think his chin can stay intact against the best in the 140s. if surviving the fight is the measure of how good his chin is, he is in for the wrong end of some highlight kos.

 

Khan did great. Many champs and ATG's have made mistakes and had tough fights in their careers but still come through it with a win. Give him some god damn respect because he deserves it. His chin appears good now, and with that and his boxing potential, he's going to rule the welter divisions.

 

Cortez was pissing me off last night! Khan's chin had improved, but it still isn't good and after last night I don't think he can beat Alexander or Bradley.

 

OH Yeah cos Khan merely survived!

 

lol, i bet you and your mates were close to tears in the last couple rounds.

 

Since the Prescott fight, this board has been rampant with people calling Khan's chin total glass, quite possibly the worst in boxing.
So, in order to save face they have to cling to this idea, even if they're not being so bold anymore to say he has the worst chin in the sport.

Some are manning up and admitting his chin isn't as bad as it was previously hyped as being. But some are still in denial, blatantly ignoring the fact that Khan took some very hard shots and survived.

You are right. NO ONE with a glass jaw takes those kind of shots from a puncher like Maidana and stays on his feet. A glass jawed fighter would have been and out. Plain and simple.

Now, this doesn't automatically mean Khan has a iron chin. Not at all. But it's obviously a hell of a lot better than what people were giving him credit for.

 

But Maidana IS the best puncher in the 140s.

I also don't buy this 'Maidana was too tired to finish him' excuse either, if you actually watch the 10th round you'll know that Maidana went all out trying to finish Khan when he had him hurt, and in no way is a guy with a 90% KO ratio a "bad finisher".

It was only in the 11th and 12th that he slowed down significantly, AFTER he had expended all his energy in the 10th trying to get Khan out of there.

 

Exactly.

At last a well thought out and intelligent post.

 

I think some are ignoring the fact that Khan landed a few testing combinations in rounds 11 & 12 even though he was on the back foot for the majority.

 

Yup, and he was exchanging blows with Maidana in the last ten seconds of round 12 too.