Now that his career is netering his twilight, would you agree that Khan was at some point a successful contender, or no. Are you desi or not? Just trying to work out the ratio of desi to khan supporters. Does one need to be desi to accept khan was pretty good?
Yes, he was a real contender who was outside the genuinely elite category, but could give anyone hell on his day.
He had all the tools but didn't know how to use them. In history of boxing there are not too many guys that can throw combos like he did. And when you move like that and throw combos like that, it's always a nightmare for opponent. But the sad part of this story is that his IQ and shaky chin can't hold up for 12 rounds against toplevel opposition. He always ends up getting caught while doing stupid and unnecessary mistakes. But still he will be remembered cause he had some real special things in his arsenal. Amazing athlete but a bad boxer would be my way to describe him. Has a heart and desire but no brains. Lol, that was little evil from me.
No one was saying he wasn't a contender, anyone can be a contender you claimed he was ' the real deal'' real deals lose in 50 seconds to Breidis Prescott and go life and death and lose to the mediocre Lamont Peterson do they My problem was that you claim ''Khan was the real deal'' whilst non stop obsessively claiming Calzaghe, Wladimir Klitschko, Golovkin are nothing much. When Khan could only dream of having their careers and is not fit to tie their shoelaces.
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He was amazing when he was with roach and ariza. He is good but he has to be at 100% with training and S&C+Nutrition or his chin will completely let him down.
Oh come on one judge had Khan over Peterson by 5 points. Khan was the real deal that night, he boxed Peterson's socks off.
Khan obviously was a legit contender (he was a titlist). The thing is, Khan and his fanatics had delusions of his grandeur that don't hold up to scrutiny. He has never in any of the divisions he's campaigned in been "the man", he's never been considered "the man" by consensus or universally. He's never even been top 3 in any of the divisions he's campaigned in, despite having held a title. So yes, Khan was absolutely a legit contender, this p4p, elite, top level boxer narrative about him needs to go away. He's been humbled far too many times.
Every time Khan's fought a prime guy with power, he's lost. Prescott, Garcia and Canelo all knocked him out.
he brought one elite asset to the table, handspeed, which was blinding. One asset is good but the assets were not close enough, and being a speedster hes never going to develop them in time for them to sit alongside his elite speed, which fades fast.
he was 'amazing' going life and death and losing to C Level Lamont Peterson and Getting KTFO in a few rounds by Danny Garcia was he... You have low standards. Look what Errol Spence done to Peterson, that's the levels. and Spence would do similar to Danny.
and yet errol, your high standard, was fighting peterson, your so called low standard. see u when u get your new alt.
You gotta be kidding me. Khan fought Lamont in his backyard and gave a great account of himself in that bout. Khan was arguably robbed of that win by some home cookin, Peterson's only loss at that point was a decision loss to Tim Bradley. He fought Spence 6 years later, you can't possibly believe Peterson was the same fighter last year that he was when he fought Khan. Peterson just got stopped by Sergey Lipinets the other day, by your logic does that mean that Sergey Lipinets is on the same level as Spence? Lipinets the same guy who got dominated by Mikey Garcia last year at 140. That guy's as good as Spence huh. Great logic you got there.
2009-2012 is when he at his peak and was an offensive first fighter. Virgil has tried to turn him into a defence minded fighter first but that is not in his nature so he will always have a concentration dip and get timed against everyone elite level. He shows flashes here and there but he is towards the end
