Everything wrong about boxing preceded by everything right.

If you know he is undeserving of the ranking, why do you keep bringing it up like it means something? Khan getting a genuine title shot by beating obviously over ranked (and over matched) opponents will leave a bad taste in my mouth. If Khan is good enough to be fast tracked to the top, he should be more than happy facing Romanov rather than Kristjansen, plain and simple.
This idea of "who cares who he fights as long as he gets a title shot" is not what boxing is about for me. Khan should be clearing all obstacles in his path rather than dodging them.

 

So ****ing what? This is the pro game, it's a whole new world

I don't see the hype as being relevant, I just ignore it and mute the commentary and draw my own conclusions. With that hype comes pressure and expectation. It's a double edged sword

He's 21 years old, and he's done a hell of a lot more than any of our current champions had, barring Haye who is praised for his aggressive matchmaking. Sorry, I'm still not getting mad about it. I'd rather he fought Romanov, but he's still well on track

 

Just for reference the fighters I chose were Naseem Hamed World featherweight champion, David Haye world cruiserweight champion, Carl Johansson British and central area champion, Terry Dunstan Former european champion and world title challenger and Paul Weir the three time WBO champion. But don't mind them- they never amounted to much

 

:goodI totally agree. I'd much rather see him fight and hopefully beat the best in his division rather than just get a fast track to a title.

 

Jeff i lost alot of respect for the things you say on here after that, fact is Thaxton could have fought Khan Feb 2nd and prices himself out. Romanov will win this so easy and then Khan will beat Romanov, killing two birds with one stone before fighting for the world title.

 

Khan is pulling a Hatton. He is flagrantly ducking a legit challenge and leap frogging hurdles because of a powerful promoter.

 

atsch If its that easy to lose respect for me because I have a different opinion to you then mate its no loss. Khan can ko both of them in the first round but it still doesn't hide the fact he's been been mollycoddled to a world title. This is not about whether or not Khan can fight its about exploiting people and the fight game itself when he could be so influential in making boxing great again.

 

Thaxton fighting Khan Feb 2nd and pricing himself out is NOT fact Rob.

What IS fact is that Khan withdrew as Thaxton's mandatory.

Thaxton has since gone on record saying he was not made an official offer outside of the purse bid process.

We now know that Hennessy also have links with ITV so it blows the theory out the water that Khan was withdrawn because of his exclusive ITV deal.

So you think Romanov will beat Thaxton easily? You may well be right but full credit to Thaxton for at least having the bottle to get in there with him which is more than Khan and his handlers seem prepared to do - despite all the talk and name dropping for the last two fights.

 

No, I said the latter 3 never amounted to much

Johanesson and Dunstan are garbage. I think Khan should and will achieve higher, so I'm not too concerned he hasn't taken their route to 'glory'

 

Careful he will lose respect for you atsch

 

And on that note you cease to be a respected poster. You know nothing about either... bar perhaps looking at there records on boxrec.

 

Ever since Olympic boxing has been going the guys that won medals have got larger made more money due to having bigger fan bases. Same thing happened with Lewis, Ali, Lenoard, even bums like Harrison made more than World Champions have done in their Career.

I just think people should leave Khan alone its not his fault, plus who can critisice a guy for fighting the WBO#2 contender. Thaxton would be a step back, letting him fight romanov is the best thing that could happen for Khan as now he only has to beat Romanov to proove people on here wrong, not 2 journeyman just one!

 

I'm not too bothered about your respect, but considering you just got your little panties in a twist when some other bloke said that you look a bit of a knob

Carl Johanneson doesn't even have the bottle to fight a domestic opponent. He didn't even look like he was trying to make weight, he's a waste of space

Dunstan...very very average in terms of world level

They hardly represent rolemodels for Khan's route to glory. I'd say Hatton/Calzaghe are far better comparisons. As I've pointed out, Khan is ahead of them, and is a lot younger, so he is doing absolutely fine

 

journeyman LOL Go back on holiday!

 

Michael Gomez would probably disagree with you.