From what i can recall of the early situation it wasnt Froch's comments after the Prescott fights, but the one's after the Kotelnik fight that seemd to really rankle khan, infact there was an interview of khan praising Froch after he won the WBC belt. Bascially the boring/runner Jibes. And if siomply being muslim made somebody popular and on Box office, Jawaid Khaliq and Adnan Amar would be household names. Maybe the problem is being from Nottingham!
Khan is a lot better than Froch IMO but everything I read in the opening post is true. Froch doesn't sound bitter at all 2 me. Just giving his honest answer 2 a question someone asked him. Shouldn't have critisised Salita tho. Khan handled that mandatory very well.
Can someone name a point that Froch makes that isn't bang on the money in that whole statement? Thanks
Throughout that whole interview he was taking little digs at Khan. Fragile ego? chin problems? Who is Salita? I fought Jermain Taylor, now thats a real defence etc etc etc. Try and justify it all you want but a playa hater is easy to spot. The Prescott defeat comments were okay but what did he say after? Khan is boring, I've never been a fan, I'm real fighter who is actually exciting to watch. Mate, the public have decided who they would rather watch. Judging by the interview it seems Khan is always on Froch's mind than the other way round. Salita was a mandatory, Khan is 22. Who does he want him to fight? Pacquiao? PBF? C'mon man:-(
How do we know Salita is a joker? Cuz he got knocked out in 70 seconds? Khan was out in 54, does that mean he's a joker? If it's a mandatory he has to fight him. Kotelnik was a champ and Khan took the belt from him, he wasn't handed it on a plate, at 22 years old. He's got all the time in the world to step up. I agree he should NOT be on PPV yet but that's not his fault. In a way he's been lucky to get certain opprtunities, e.g. getting a fight with Barrera 2 fights after the Prescott loss but he's got that star appeal like De la Hoya had. Obviously this will cause jealousy. Seriously I'm not a big fan, he's not even in my top 15 fave current fighters but I think people need to lay off him. Only in Britain can a guy win an olympic medal at 17, a world title at 22, and get the hate he does. It's disgusting. Yet we can boo the US national anthem and get all over-patriotic at other times:huh. It's hard to understand. You think they do that **** in Puerto Rico? People were cool on Lennox but started riding his dick once he defeated Tyson. Same thing will happen to Khan I think. As soon as he makes it really big, say breaks into the p4p top 5, the haters will suddenly get on the bandwagon as if they were always a fan of his.
Granted Froch deserves credit for facing Taylor as 1st defense, but was 30 seconds from losing his title!! Then again he signed up for super 6 , but was again lucky to still have his belt, and to be honest i can see him losing to Kessler! Froch is very 1 dimentional, Im no a Hater of Khan , nor am I deluded about his capabilitys, and on talent alone Khan is miles ahead of froch, and Khans suspect chin is yet to be tested at light welter
I agree with the things that Froch said, but if I was him I wouldn't have gone as far with my comments. Froch should just have explained his position and left it at that. But come on guys, Khan's opposition has been shite. And all this talk about him being 22 is totally irrelevant. If he has the balls to fight for a world title, if he has the balls to be telling us all he's the dogs bollocks (after beating Gomez!) he can take the criticism on the chin. Truth is, Khan has done **** all to support the hype. Froch has beaten Taylor and has signed up for the super six and that means much more to me.
Amen. You cant tell everyone you've proved your world class and then get upset when people dont give you credit for beating fighters not even top 20 in division. Froch's last 3 fights have all been against top 10 fighters. Khan's only remotely impressive victory was over Kotelnik.