In an Era where so many boxers are too scared to........

When will floyd take the kind of risk Khan takes? By that i mean when is Floyd going to fight khan in england? Floyd is supposedly superior to khan but that evens itself out when you are in someones back yard. If Floyd fights khan in england, it is an even playing field. Peter was inferior to khan, but in DC they were equals.

100% agree with this post. The major thing that has been killing me about boxing nowadays has been how a loss is so overexaggerated!! In the golden olden days, from what i have studied and what my pops told me, a loss was a loss, you picked up and moved on and came back stronger with the fans still believing in you! Now the fans are so quick to right anyone off! Why??? I dont get it. This is what is killing the sport in my opinion and stopping the so many potential super fights we could have had! You guys are so right on this. People act as if you lose a fight you should just retire from boxing.

Well said TS,real boxing fans appreciate true fighters like Khan and Froch who are willing to travel even when they are the champion

Boxing fans are horrible...I never knew that until NSB. Khan will be fine, he will improve, he will win big fights again, (if in fact he did lose this one) and a lot of these people will go back in the closet until the next time he performs poorly...it's pathetic really. I wish both Peterson and Khan nothing but the best.

Great thread, if more boxers were like Khan prepared to take risks to show they are the man, the sport would be in a much better place. Boxing fans are fickle and change there opinion more often than they change their underwear. And some people just love to hate.

put it all on the line, why is Khan getting stick for having the balls to go to Pete's backyard and fight??? Shouldn't he be getting praise for actually having the balls to fight in a live dangerous opponents backyard instead of getting killed for it? The hypocrisy of us boxing fans is mind bogglingly funny. We cane people like Mayweather for being cautious throughout there boxing careers and avoiding many potentially dangerous situations and making very few risky moves in there career, yet when one actually goes old school like all the champs from the great era used to, he gets slated it for it lmao! Yes it was the wrong choice in hindsight but at least the man had he balls to take that risk, tell me who else would do what Khan did in his situation? Not many i can assure you of that. Good post some green to u. Amir is one of the few top guys out there that you can safely say has balls and wants the big fights no matter. Compare that to bradley ducking him like crazy. He goes into a guys backyard when he doesn't have to pity there aren't a few more out there like him. You can be sure if floyd was more like amir in his youth he wouldn't have that perfect record.

Wow. I am genuinely surprised at the number of people saying that Khan didn't see it as a risk. I can understand that comment being made from the general public, those who are not really into boxing that much and only know of boxing from looking at fighters wiki/boxrec pages but on a Boxing forum people are actually trying to tell me that Khan didn't think Lamont Peterson was a risk??? Am i the only one that finds this comment truly baffling?? Yes everyone expected Khan to win, Khan himself must have super confident of winning but if your gonna try and tell me as a professional boxer he didn't think fighting someone like Lamont Peterson expecially in his back yard wasn't a risk then i truly dont know what to say to that.

Khan is a good young boxer, and a risk taker. I'll give him credit for that. He needs to learn to be more humble though, and quit mentioning Mayweather's name when he clearly isn't ready. How about beating Peterson and Madaina decisively first. Then maybe a Berto/Ortiz winner after that.

Taking that amount of punishment is always a big deal...it's not just the loss on his record but to his body. Khan has to get with somebody that can HELP him defensively while he still has something left. Oh please, that was a good scrap but it was hardly Castillo-Corrales.

Take the fanboy glasses off (I dont even care if you're a fanboy or not) cause you're obviously watching a different fight. A "couple pushes" you say? When does "a couple", stop being "a couple"? Probably when it happens almost constantly? And then there's the biggest push of the fight that gifted Khan a 10-8 round: The fighters many times are also to blame, especially when they are so cocky. You cant be calling out Mayweather and get banged around, looking bad like he did without taking some stick. Its inevitable. Fighters make big promises and talk crap they don't even believe just to get that pay day. Its not the fans fault. Boxing is fu**ed from inside. Promoters.......wth is a promoter doing crying about the ref during the post presser? It needs to be a proper sport in term of rules and regulations, as well as where sportsmanship is concerned, in and out of the ring, before people who look up to the fighters can follow. Larry Merchant rarely has something intelligent to say now a days but he was right when he said, "Maybe there's no crying in boxing, but no pushing? Come on!" There where no hard warnings given before a point deduction. Usually a ref will tell you "this is the last time I'm warning you."

I agree with the above comment. On the surface, the act is good, but i'm sure Khan had ulterior motives, and it simply back-fired on him. Now he's saying he wants "his" titles back lol, KHAN, YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE UP ANYWAY! lmao, it must not feel good when you don't have your bargaining tools at your disposal. Khan isn't at the level yet where the saying "the titles don't make the man" apply. He still needs them as a form of legitimacy.

put it all on the line, why is Khan getting stick for having the balls to go to Pete's backyard and fight??? Shouldn't he be getting praise for actually having the balls to fight in a live dangerous opponents backyard instead of getting killed for it? The hypocrisy of us boxing fans is mind bogglingly funny. We cane people like Mayweather for being cautious throughout there boxing careers and avoiding many potentially dangerous situations and making very few risky moves in there career, yet when one actually goes old school like all the champs from the great era used to, he gets slated it for it lmao! Yes it was the wrong choice in hindsight but at least the man had he balls to take that risk, tell me who else would do what Khan did in his situation? Not many i can assure you of that. It would probally be praise if it actually the real reason why he went to Peterson back yard...He only went to DC to really try to market himself. Meeting Hilliary Clinton and trying to get president Obama to come sit ringside..He took Peterson lightly and didn't think he was threat. Everything backfired on Amir, he didn't even get to meet the president....

I give "KING" Khan credit, he's still young. He still has room for improvement. He needs to stop wasting so much energy though, he needs to calm down, be patient and set up his shots.

Great post ! !.........i dont like Amir, i never have.....but to me the kid won the fight. i dont like his bravado, but his style is easy on the eye, so is fun to watch....I like the heart that Lamont show in this fight also, to me was one good god-damm fight........to me a loss is too way overrated, and people make too much about it, i hope to see this 2 guys in the ring pronto........ anyways...Great post bro......

I think it was admirable for Khan (a show of arrogance imo) to have a title fight in the contender's hometown. He didn't have to, but he did anyway. However, instead of getting mad at all of Washington D.C., he should just focus his frustrations on the ref. Peterson already said he doesn't mind having the rematch in England, so Khan will get his favor repaid.

Yeah seriously, Khan is one of the only top guys who takes legitimate fights year round.

100% agree with this post. The major thing that has been killing me about boxing nowadays has been how a loss is so overexaggerated!! In the golden olden days, from what i have studied and what my pops told me, a loss was a loss, you picked up and moved on and came back stronger with the fans still believing in you! Now the fans are so quick to right anyone off! Why??? I dont get it. This is what is killing the sport in my opinion and stopping the so many potential super fights we could have had! Boxers dont earn anything these days like they used to, that's why. They dont fight each other, they take the easy way out and they have big mouths. The promoters are crooked, there are no real rules anywhere and the whole thing is mostly based on selling the public lies to take money from them. It's basically a cherry picking get rich scheme for those with the right connections. Also, if you talk like you're king kong and you get blasted into the mat, you're gonna get laughed at and ridiculed. It's not rocket science. Humble boxers dont receive the same treatment after a loss as a big mouthed one, especially when they put up a spectacular fight. Ward and Gatti and a prime example. However, if you're gonna be talking like you're world class material and get shown up and exposed by "B-grade" fighters, expect a little flak coming your way or just shut the hell up next time. Then again, they wont shut up because its all for the show and they WANT people to be talking ish about them, as long as they're talking about them they're on cloud nine.

I don't think the loss is that big a deal. In the old days, if a guy lost, he lost. It wasn't that he was exposed or a hypejob or fraudulent or overrated. He lost. I think that Amir was in a back-and-forth war that could have gone either way and was on the short end of the decision. 100% agree with this post. The major thing that has been killing me about boxing nowadays has been how a loss is so overexaggerated!! In the golden olden days, from what i have studied and what my pops told me, a loss was a loss, you picked up and moved on and came back stronger with the fans still believing in you! Now the fans are so quick to right anyone off! Why??? I dont get it. This is what is killing the sport in my opinion and stopping the so many potential super fights we could have had!

I don't think the loss is that big a deal. In the old days, if a guy lost, he lost. It wasn't that he was exposed or a hypejob or fraudulent or overrated. He lost. I think that Amir was in a back-and-forth war that could have gone either way and was on the short end of the decision.

He DOES get credit from anyone that's aware of it. That's why I've said this over and over: be objective. Look at things from all perspectives. I was rooting for Peterson and am happy for him winning the belts and a big upset. However, I'm fully aware that the ref's point deductions played a major role in the fight. I scored the fight 113-112 for Khan, point deductions and all. On top of that, it's extremely hypocritical to slam Khan for labeling him a "hypejob", "bum" or any other negative term that people love handing out like cheap candy when a boxer loses (even if it's a razor thin decision). Most of the time people look at the result, and not the circumstances behind the loss or how the fight went. Khan is still a good fighter and most people will tell you that they had Khan winning even with the point deductions, regardless of who they were rooting for. I'll be quick to admit that I don't like Khan's twittering, big-mouthed, cocky personality, but as a fighter he's been fighting big names/solid contenders in the past two years straight. Kotelnik, Malignaggi, Maidana, McCloskey, tried to get THE fight with Bradley by offering him a 50-50 split, Judah, and now Peterson (in HIS hometown)...very ballsy. He deserves some slack. He was attempting to clean out 140 (or at least most of it), and at the very least he deserves some applause for that because most fighters nowadays stick mainly to the business-side. I'm not saying that's wrong, but when you have fighters that are absolutely willing to fight the best...that counts for something; win, lose, or draw. Great post. Unfortunately for boxing, there's not many boxing fans like yourself left in this great sport.