Message to all Khan haters.

If thats not what you meant perhaps you should edit your post then as thats clearly what you said.

Maybe also the one you have posted in the general forum where you are continuing the race debate.

 

Hopefully this will all become academic when Khan does finally step up his competition against a puncher & does/doesn't succeed.

 

Amir Khan is a very talented & gifted fighter / boxer. Time will tell if he can step up to the mark - personally I think he will do well in boxing.

As to his personal life and total disregard for our motoring laws - that's shameful & a person in his position should be setting a far better example than he is doing on that front. I just hope we don't have another Naseem Hamed saga in the making - now he was detestable

 

Sorry to get the race thing started, I can tell it's quite sensitive. It was just my view being white myself and being in predominantly white environments since i was a kid. There is no way i'm saying race clouds everyone's judgement but it's just not surprising to find this in Khan's case and i know that people in a predominantly white environment would be more synpathetic towards him if he was white. In the States i knew boxing fans and i know and have seen boxing fans here now (this is obviously a much wider issue, btw), and it's a simple observation that just can't be avoided in my mind and i'm not shocked by it or anyhting...it's just life.

Not saying that any particular poster here is guilty of this but i can admit that even i have been at times. I, for example, have a Hispanic grandfather and back home even tho I look white in every single way, i have an Hispanic surname. I didn't mind admitting to friends sometimes that i favored a Latino fighter at times or that I prefered the lifestyle that my father's side of the family lived rather than my mother who was a Swedish American white lady.

 

If you look hard enough youll find race issues in everything , however if you stop being to pc , youll find sometimes people just dont like other people and it has nothing to do with race. Maybe we should all bury our heads in the sand and say hes great and theres nothing wrong because hes of asian decent and we cant say anything cos if we do were racist. Well i say bollocks, im a big fan of his but im still gunna criticize boxers or praise them weather they are black white brown or purple.

 

i was at the fight and i was watching vinny mitchell fight some russian and to be honest i was sat next to someone who knew the mitchell boys and i found them ok and i didnt get no abuse and iv got a got beard and im an amir fan aswell, so it must of been a selected few

 

It's not sensitive at all, and to say it is you run the risk of sounding inflammatory, which I know is not your intention.
This is a boxing forum and people come here to discuss boxing. When people critisize certain boxers it's for boxing reasons. Amir Khan is no different. Because it's a boxing forum for boxing fans, it's rather tedious when people bring up the issue of race.
It does not promote the healthy debate that I have come to expect on the British forum, and false accusations of racism are as bad as racism itself in my opinion. ( I am not suggesting you are guilty of that, but others have been).

In my opinion if Amir Khan wants to get the British public behind him a bit more, he needs to fight different people to what he has been. Prince Naseem was a bit of an arrogant twat, but I couldn't help support him when he went up against some mouthy American fighter.
The way Khan has been bad mouthing his fellow domestic fighters is not a good career move. The likes of Earl and Thaxton have been well respected figures in the British boxing scene for quite some time, and the way Khan has disrespected them has been quite off putting.
Just because Khan is British, gifted and has a lot of potential, it doesn't automatically mean I'm going to favour him over fighters I've been following for years.

 

Bang on mate i can't stand the little wanker

A-mere-****

pretty much sums him up...besides he should have been stopped against Limond...and no one can deny that he avoids anyone with a smidegum of power like the plague

 

Totally agree. I don't like the way these new fans are bringing this tribal, nationalistic edge to our sport. Look at the way those Hatton back slapping, football thugs posing as boxing fans carried on in America.

I'm a boxing fan first, of course I like to see British boxers do well but I also like to see the sport as a whole do well. I like Joe Calzaghe a lot & was chuffed to bits for him when he unified the belts, however, Bernard is my favourite fighter & I will find it hard to cheer against him.

 

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He actually comes across quite well here.

 

Khan can come across well but this interview was at Thaxton's expense it seems.

Mentions Thaxton turning down Warren's offer (no mention of Hennessy's more generous offer to him) and asks what can we do?

Perhaps insist your promoter goes to purse bids instead of withdrawing you?

Then goes on to say he is the NO 1 in Britain and Thaxton is the No 2!

 

Robpalmer135 - you make a pretty decent argument there right up until the end when you say "He has the potential to be the best fighter we have ever produced."

atsch