Cracking Khan interview with Bunce

:happy:happy:happy:happy:good:good

 

Yeah, Warrens a **** promoter from a fans point of view but he's great from the fighters point of view. He will make you rich and market you very well to the general public.

 

Im find myself warming to Khan more these days. He has definitely shaken the 'big shot' image (no pun) that he had before he worked with Freddy. Perhaps its because he is not the main attraction at the gym or maybe he's just maturing but whatever it is its doing him more good than harm. Still pissed off that they are trying to charge PPV for his fights. That should be saved for big fight nights with unification bouts between big names but thats more Warrens fault than his.

I might even find myself rooting for the lad come Saturday

(via stream of course lol )

 

Whatever happened to that Shattered Glass ***** he didn't come back since the Kotelnik fight.

 

The undeserved title shot was one thing, but this sitting is the back seat is another, who does he think he is?

 

He sits where he wants hes the king, you got a problem, take it up with him!

 

It is crunch time for Amir Khan on Saturday when he makes the first defence of his WBA light-welterweight title against Dmitriy Salita in Newcastle, a mandatory defence. Victory will clear the way for Khan’s long-awaited American debut next year against ‘name’ opponent Juan Manuel Marquez (or even a possible showdown with Lancashire rival Ricky “Hitman” Hatton). Khan is already based in the States, of course, out of Freddie Roach’s Wildcard Gym in Los Angeles.
Roach is the man credited with an incredible turnaround for Khan, blasted in a matter of seconds by Colombia’s rangy Breidis Prescott last year in Manchester, after which he defected to “Red” Roach, a former featherweight pro who tightened up Khan’s defence, stengthened his legs, moved him up a weight and secured him sparring with Filipino great Manny Pacquiao. The upshot is a surge of improvement for the 22-year-old Bolton speedster and the WBA belt he lifted with a dazzling, one-sided decision over Ukrainian star Andreas Kotelnik in the summer. Presumably, intriguingly, there are still masses of Khan improvement to come under Roach.
To Salita, a New York Jew, who brings an unbeaten 31 fights (one draw) to the challenge and hails from the same Brooklyn manor as his great friend Yuri Foreman, a fellow Jewish fighter who lifted the WBA light-middleweight title recently and inspired Salita to proclaim, "I want to join the Jewish Club of world champions,” a club that contains some of the greatest names in the entire history of our sport and produced one of the greatest quotes when Benny Leonard, the old ghetto wizard, stated, “The hardest fighter to fight is a stupid fighter. You feint him and he doesn’t even know you’re doing it.”
However, Salita is no Leonard, no banger. He can be compared to Kotelnik, however, the skilled, brave, well-conditioned yet slowish fighter who got nowhere against the lightning-fast Khan, so we can assume that Salita, hardly the quickest fighter himself, will also struggle as Khan puts together his trademark bursts of shots, one after another, interespersed with a solid guard and great movement. The 27-year-old Salita claim that Khan is vulnerable to a big shot but he has to hit him first, he has to slow him. I am not sure the visitor has the ability to do either.
Why, then, is he the mandatory contender? Salita brings his practicing Jewish beliefs to every fight and that makes good copy, a 'newspaper' clash of cultures. He also brings refreshing intelligence to the sport, a clean-cut image, although his management team have proved remarkably more intelligent by securing the No. 1 ranking for their man without him fighting – let alone beating - a single ‘name’ opponent. Basically, Salita is marketable, manufactured, m-o-n-e-y.
As for Khan, he is the ‘real’ boxer, a former Olympic silver medallist who perhaps turned pro a little too early at 18 and lacked a man’s strength leading up to the Prescott disaster. All of that has changed now - beautifully built for light-welterweight he is, punishing and quite heavy handed. He can also do the full 12 rounds in a canter.
I would not be surprised to see Khan, after his full 12-rounder with Kotelnik, come out on Saturday and simply blow away the challenger in two or three rounds.

 

Khan on Skysports news just now.

He hopes he will be fighting the like of Marquez.....MAYWEATHER in the next 12 months.

Crazy talk,just plain f*cking crazy.