He was excellent to make it as far as he did while being hindered by a glass chin and leaky defense. I think people expectations of him are too high he could only do so much with his skillset. Fact is in boxing at some point youre going to get hit flush and if your punch resistance is non existent then you can only get so far.
He would actually trouble Floyd, with his height, reach, hand speed and movement. Believe it or not. Floyd was shopworn as a welter/junior-middle fighting once a year. Khan is like 10 years younger, and not one of the short-limbed guys (often old) coming up in weights that Floyd liked to hand-pick; a name/money fight he could fiddle through. There's a reason Floyd avoided Tszyu, Margarito, Paul Williams and Khan - he wanted height and reach advantage (as well as ring/glove sizes, right catchweight etc), not a guy coming up in weight who had the frame like he did to hold weight effectively.
I don’t really think of him as “skilled”. He had fast hands for the first four or five rounds of a fight then significantly fell off. He had no Chin, mediocre stamina, no Ring IQ, and he was like a mini robot and could only move forwards or backwards. Considering how bad his Chin was in the grand scheme of things he had a good career. He was savagely KOed in most his big fights. That demolition job Prescott did on him showed how flawed and average Khan was.
Khan wasn't much for skills, he was all about speed. His attacks were predictable but it was extremely difficult to time due to his freakish speed. You can clearly see that as soon as he slows down he was immediately getting caught over and over with the same punches. The Danny Garcia fight exposed his obvious(to those that closely followed him since the amateur days) limitations in full colors.
Ring IQ was really Amir's problem. He loves to fight and his heart writes cheques his chin can't cash. Wonderful talent but dreadfully indisciplined.
He was all offence and had poor defence for a world level fighter. Very fast hands. Respectable power but not a puncher by any means. Good fighter. Was never elite but was world class. Khan is the fighter that got @miniq into boxing so I’d like to hear his opinion on it.
Not great. Did not rule a division for a long, extended period of time, did not have a long, impressive winning streak. Not a 4+ division champ. None of his professional accomplishments were worthy of being called great.
Natural gifted talent that allowed his average skills to beat contender but he can not hang with the elite. To me he had very fast hands and reflex with average boxing skill.
