Amir Khan : Can he become great?

a top fighter he will be but unsure about great he does have the tools to become a great,lets remember the guy is only 22 and will keep getting better for a long time not to mention stronger,i actually think that khans style is suited to beating pacman(im not saying he would tho )

 

He'll get knocked out again if faced with a flush shot. He can certainly be a great boxer, but he'll have to stay elusive and avoid getting in a tear-up with elite fighters as there will only be one winner.

 

No. Hes a glass jawed fail.

 

Maidanas whiskers appear to be as fragile as Khans

 

Can't see him becoming great, He'll get better and will win more titles, but don't think I'd ever call him great.

 

It all depends on his chin.

Khan can box.

 

No. Never. As soon as he gets tagged clean it's 'goodnight Vienna'!

 

Yes he can become a great, olympic medallist at 17, World champ at 22, freddy roach in his trainer, holds his own in sparring against manny, with his skills ofcourse he can become a great

 

He CAN become great, he has the skills, but Im not positive he will.

 

He's so damn fast he gets away with fighting a bit too straight and predictable, fast counter-punchers like Judah and Kotelnik could do **** about it. That's an excellent sign for a still improving Amir so I don't see any reason why can't he become a P4P-er.

Now to reach true greatness, he needs a trainer who can teach him solid inside skills. I'm less confident in my Bradley pick with each Khan fight, but him, like Floyd and others can find a way to stay in the pocket where Khan has no world class skills, think Ward-Kessler. Khan's footwork can compensare for it, but IF a fighter successfully cuts him down, there's trouble. Still, he's improving with each fight, so why not reach greatness?

 

:think You mean the current light welterweight division, Lynchy? I think it 's a very good division with a broad range of talent. Nobody in it is necessarily a great fighter, but it's loaded as hell with good fighters. Khan, Bradley, Kotelnik, Maidana, Matthysse, then Peterson, Cayo, McCloskey, Prescott, Garcia...Man, I think that's two really solid tiers of fighter, honestly. Again, I wouldn't say that any of them is necessarily great, based only off of what we've seen so far, but it's not even within seeing distance of a bad bunch, to me. That's a long line of good names, and I think Rios, Guerrero and JMM will be considered among them, soon.

 

He's got the right trainer and definately the physical tools to go far, to win titles probably as high as 154, maybe even middleweight. Well maybe not the chin, but it has gotten more stable with the extra strength and better conditioning, and he hasn't been hit much against basically the best opposition he could've faced at 140 besides Bradley who ducked him.

He's also got a great work ethic and attitude to his craft and he seems to have an strong hunger to get better and improve as a fighter (what other big name/star boxer would agree to be a sparring partner to another star fighter?).

Many will say 'no' because they're convinced his chin won't hold up, even though he survived getting rocked by the strongest puncher in his weight class, and also some because they don't respect his amateur style, similar to how Calzaghe gets disrespected by those who despised his slappy-happy style. Who knows though, if he continues winning and proving himself as he goes up or is atleast very competitive against the best like De La Hoya was, it will hard to deny him greatness. It will certainly be interesting watching his progress in the next few years to come.