By Mark Vester
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is claiming that at no point in the fight did Marcos Maidana have him seriously hurt. There seemed to be several points in last Saturday's contest, especially in the ten round, where Khan appeared to be very hurt. Khan's trainer Freddie Roach has already gone on the record regarding Khan's difficulties in the tenth round. Roach had even thought about stopping the fight. He allowed it to continue after speaking with Khan during the one-minute rest period prior to the start of the eleventh.
Khan admits to being hurt on a minor level, but not to the level of being gone or being unaware of his enviorment.
"He hit me with his best shot and it didn't hurt me. When he caught me with that shot in the tenth, I knew exactly where I was," Khan said to The Daily Telegraph. "At no point was I gone. I was under pressure, I was hurt at times, he hit me on the back of the head a lot and I have a few marks there, but I came back and showed heart."
In an earlier report, Maidana complained about the scoring of the fight. He thought two of the cards, which tallied an identical 114-111, were too wide. Khan agrees and disagrees. He also has complaints about those two scorecards, but not because they were too wide. Khan feels the scores were too close.
"I watched it twice - the judges had it a lot closer than it should have been," Khan said. "When I saw the fight I thought I won convincingly. He was hitting me with a lot of shots on my defence. I was landing the cleaner shots on him."
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