khan is one of them fighters who can't do nothing right.

Indeed and Ricky got plenty of stick for his opponenets , wasnt anything like as famous as Khan was at this age and lets be honest was a guy with average power , average speed , not great defence , not great anyhting so he had to achieve simply through determination, people like that.

 

I know but then come on....he really has not proved at all by his level of opposition that he in any way has a future that will be compared to thse guys. Its just the media makin a name for him.....those other guys made a name for themselves i the ring.

 

:good

 

My point was that Khan is a supreme athlete and boxer with one weakness but by avoiding all fighters who could expose that weakness ( or hopefully make him have to adjust and show something else ) he is almost garaunteeing victory for himslef.

Hatton had pishy defence but he still had to fight a few snipers and counter punchers even on the way up.

Its not fair that if you are blessed with all these talents that you make your one weakness irrelevant by not ever fighting guys who are dangerous to you.

Ali didnt do great with inside pressure fighters , should he have just ignored Joe Frazier ?

Frazier was bad against uppercuts and tall guys , he should just have forgotten Foremans name ?

recently Froch cant handle speed all that well , I guess he should have avoided Pascal , Taylor , Dirrell ????

thats what khan is doing !

He has the gifts to be an All time guy but he has to fight dudes that dont suit him to get the respect he wants !

 

Unlike Ali, the fighters you listed did not dodge draft and did not stir some racist **** and as such not as controversial.

 

True, he will have to eventually. I've had this thing going on with my Kahn fan status since the early days. I let it go that on the way up when he fought a whos who of guys with low KOs , some of these dudes you have to wonder where Warren was digging them up , Three of them with no KOs , 3 !

but fair enough he was developing but he is now billed as , refered to as and has a shiny belt that says : World Champion. There are greater expectations now. He HAS to fight guys who can be a danger to him. I actaully think that under Roachs tutelage and at the higher wieght he can beat the big name Americans but even if he doesn't first time round I'll have mopre respect for him for having put himself in a place where he doesn't know before hand that he's going to win :good

 

There is one other point , brawler and sluggers are generally speaking more popular.

Tyson will always be more popular than Lewis

Dempsey will always be more popular than Tunney

Pac is more popular ( world wide ) than May

Guys that tear in and ko people are always quicker to be taken to peoples hearts. In that sense Ali was actually more popular than maybe he would have been without his bombastic personality

 

I get you and you do have a point I cant decide if the majority of the Khan hate on here is because he is British or because he is Asian but is deffo one of them for a lot of people. But there are a chunk , who like I do admire his abilities but just want to see him tested occsaionaly !