the reason i never liked amir khan that much because he brought the mass number of new viewer to boxing, which is good thing but all these new fans of boxing were mainly just british pub folk who watched the footy every week at there local pub. They dont know anything about boxing apart from what warren was feeding them amir khan knocks everybody out, i used to tell people he has big flaws and he will not make it and they would laugh at me lol
I'd actually rate Grant's skills at 2....the difference between Grant and Khan is American fans knew he was a bum before Lewis beat him down.
Speed: 8 (Easily his strongest physical area. I suppose you could even make a case for 9, but that would be pushing it.) Skills: 5.5 (Shines with offensive skill, but has utterly appalling defensive technique. Makes rookie mistakes like failing to guard his chin, and he doesn't have the reflexes to get away with it. Can barely infight, and relies heavily on boxing from a distance. Barely any head movement, and barely any evasive footwork, which is why he was knocked out so quickly against Prescott. Fairly good accuracy and timing, and punching form is mostly good too. Lovely combinations, but can often get sloppy with them when trying to finish a fighter off. Even Limond was able to outbox him for a few rounds.) Heart: 8 (Not a joke. Every time he's been knocked down -- EVERY time -- he's tried to get back up rather than quit. Not only that, but he's often come right back, guns blazing, and knocked the other guy down or out. Even when Prescott hit him with that sickening KO punch Khan still tried to get to his feet and continue, even though he looked utterly destroyed. He's got real guts.) Power: 6 (Nothing special, but just a notch above average. Normally has ref stoppages rather than pure power knockouts. Relies on speed and combinations rather than power.) Chin: 0 (Pure glass. Put down and hurt by feather-fisted Limond, dropped again by a shot Gomez, badly wobbled and knocked down against Watson in the amateurs, wobbled by a jab from Prescott and then utterly destroyed, all within a minute of the first round...a truly terrible chin. A pity.) Hype: 10 (Amazingly famous here in the UK, and after the Olympics he was hyped as our next legend-to-be. Don King even made a comparison to Sugar Ray Robinson...) Intelligence: 3 (When he's dropped, he never actually waits for a while to recover before getting up -- against Prescott, for example, a smart fighter would have taken a knee for a handful of seconds to clear their head. Khan got straight back up and looked like a slum drunk staggering around. Also shows very little adaptability -- only has Plan A, which is to charge an opponent with blinding combinations. When this fails he's bewildered, and this almost cost him the fight against Gomez. His latest fight was an example of even greater stupidity -- charging in against a guy with a 90% KO record without even measuring him first, and providing a completely stationary target. Then there's the fact that he settled for Rubio instead of a more proven and trusted trainer, etc.)
:good well said... although I would put lower scores for both Skills and Power.... Gomez said after his fight, Khan didn't have much power (but excellent accuracy). Rubio also said they were working on Khans power before Prescott fight, trying to make him sit more on his punches... Intelligence would be less as well.... This is probably a bigger problem than his Chin ....in reality.... because even with a very suspect chin he could get away in some fights, using his brains.... but the guy doesn't seem to learn from blatant mistakes.... and his whole approach to fights are wrong - rushing in, exposing chin,
Thankee. I was definitely tempted to lower the intelligence area...I agree that it's a massive problem for him. Skills and power can be debated, but you make fair points there too.
What kills me about this is two things: 1) People are blaming Khan's management for 'picking the wrong opponent'. Well if Khan was as good as he was supposed to be, then he would have won. Its that simple. 2) People have been saying it on this forum for a while, because lots of people seem to like saying that all prospects have one, but its the whole 'glass jaw' thing. We don't really know if he has a glass jaw. This Prescott guy is a puncher, so does getting knocked out by him mean Khan has a 'glass jaw'? No, not really. Khan has been knocked down before, and he's taken some good shots before. If he had a glass jaw, then he would get knocked out all the time. He obviously is not Oliver McCall or Ray Mercer - but that doesn't mean he's got a 'glass jaw'. 3) Why does a 21 year old PROSPECT get hyped so much that he headlines a pay per view event? Give me a break. I don't even know why he was considered THAT much of a prospect. He's never looked to me like the second coming of a Ray Robinson, Ray Leonard, Roy Jones, or a Floyd Mayweather. Looked like he could be a good fighter, possibly even a champion of some sorts in todays strange boxing world.. but not THAT good. Why do so many people on this forum think they can tell (and I'm not even talking about Khan now) when someone might have a glass jaw so damn early in their career? I see people giving this labels to fighters who are still in the amateurs, or t pros in the early stages of their career who have yet to even have a fight that didn't end very easily in a knockout, and who have not even taken even ONE hard punch. But some guy here always says "I see something that makes me think he may one day have chin issues." Shut the hell up people, you don't see ****, you are just saying that because you say it about tons of fighter's, and you want to make people think you actually know something about how to analyze a fighter. Yeah right.