Backing from home country has eluded Amir Khan

Pretty sure he said he wants to fight the best and is moving up 2 weight classes putting his health at a major risk to accommodate that risk. Not sure what you are trying to say here. For a British fighter Khan has fought the best opposition in terms of the # of "quality" wins. Froch: You say Khan struggles with Diaz n Algieri, yet both were former World champions yet a contender like Groves humiliated Froch before a lucky stoppage. Talking about Glen Johnson? Thats on par with Khan beating Barrera. Kessler by the time rematch happened was done. Groves n Pascal are supposed to be great wins but by the time they fought Froch were contender with no achievement on their record. Carl was clearly past it when Groves met up with him.

Khan gets more support here than Fury does Khan also gets more support than Brook This myth that Brook is some kid of celeb here, is just that a "myth". The guy couldnt even sell out his last fight in his own hometown Fury gets a lot of hate probably because of his political views. Khan keep his trash talk to boxing, you don't catch him talking about homosexuals, women etc....He's not controversial, or intimidating. In actual fact he is pro homosexuality and congratulated one of his friends for coming out. Khan is a household name here....even though he doesnt fight here as much, and i can't fault him on that. USA is where the big boys play, which is why Degale fights in the US. Who needs casual British fans, they are fickle people, they ride ur **** when ur winning, but soon as u lose they call you names, look how dirty they did David Price and Audley Harrison to name but a few. Boxers need to fight for themselves, not for the pleasure of others. This is why i respect Fury, he has called out fake fans time and time again

It's hard to back him I think it's because he talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. I was a Khan supporter until he just talked way too much in recent years, I think it was last year when I turned on him i'm pretty sure. Carl Froch sounded so delusional and he talked so much, but then you see him get big upset TKO wins like Bute and Taylor, and other high profile wins where he was favored and came through with the win like Abraham, Johnson, Pascal, Groves, Kessler rematch which was pretty close imo but still a win on his res. You see Froch is likeable even though he talked a whole lot of sh*t and was annoying in calling out Calzaghe. He still built his own name and resume and even in a lot of fans opinion he surpassed Calzaghe. When you favored Froch to beat someone, he won. Even in his underdog role, he did come through. Brook all though he needs to step up again, in his only underdog role he won, and that's what fans have in the back of their mind for the moment. Khan on the other hand, this guy loses in the favored role and also has looked terrible versus guys of a lower level like Julio Diaz and Chris Algieri. It's just hard to root for him because it appears that he sucks. Pretty sure he said he wants to fight the best and is moving up 2 weight classes putting his health at a major risk to accommodate that risk. Not sure what you are trying to say here. For a British fighter Khan has fought the best opposition in terms of the # of "quality" wins. Froch: You say Khan struggles with Diaz n Algieri, yet both were former World champions yet a contender like Groves humiliated Froch before a lucky stoppage. Talking about Glen Johnson? Thats on par with Khan beating Barrera. Kessler by the time rematch happened was done. Groves n Pascal are supposed to be great wins but by the time they fought Froch were contender with no achievement on their record.

You wonder why that is? Given the support he had, there's no easy reason. Even after the Prescott fight, fans packed out arenas to see him. Then he just left and has fought here once in Ralf a decade...That's why the support is no longer there.

You can't leave your country, lose a couple big fights outside your country, do nothing for a few more years mostly outside of your country & expect people to act like nothing happened when your next big fight comes up outside of your country. I'm sure there are still many UK fans supremely interested in this fight, but you can't expect people to act like its 2009. Khan had huge support in Britain to begin, even after getting flattened in 30 seconds by Prescott. Then he basically left Britain, has fought here once in the last 5 years, lost another few fights and routinely makes some of the most absurd comments in boxing. The most popular fighters in Britain fight in Britain regularly. You wonder why that is?

I get the impression that a lot of the new British fans simply want to back winners, which is a sad contrast to the history of British boxing and it's fans. They'll fall all over themselves to see "Haye Day" or Brook vs Nobody or Joshua vs Bum matches but won't back Khan in the most challenging and highest profile fight of his career. Yea, he's going to get himself hurt, but this kind of fight is what separates the true fans from the bandwagon jumpers. Not really. Fury gets no support from his home country and he's the best heavyweight in the world, while untested hype jobs like Joshua pack out arenas. Even Haye still gets more support here than Tyson does. Honestly I hope Khan doesn't lose any sleep over this. British casuals are some of the most fickle and arseholish in the world.

You can't leave your country, lose a couple big fights outside your country, do nothing for a few more years mostly outside of your country & expect people to act like nothing happened when your next big fight comes up outside of your country. I'm sure there are still many UK fans supremely interested in this fight, but you can't expect people to act like its 2009. It's hard to back him I think it's because he talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. I was a Khan supporter until he just talked way too much in recent years, I think it was last year when I turned on him i'm pretty sure. Carl Froch sounded so delusional and he talked so much, but then you see him get big upset TKO wins like Bute and Taylor, and other high profile wins where he was favored and came through with the win like Abraham, Johnson, Pascal, Groves, Kessler rematch which was pretty close imo but still a win on his res. You see Froch is likeable even though he talked a whole lot of sh*t and was annoying in calling out Calzaghe. He still built his own name and resume and even in a lot of fans opinion he surpassed Calzaghe. When you favored Froch to beat someone, he won. Even in his underdog role, he did come through. Brook all though he needs to step up again, in his only underdog role he won, and that's what fans have in the back of their mind for the moment. Khan on the other hand, this guy loses in the favored role and also has looked terrible versus guys of a lower level like Julio Diaz and Chris Algieri. It's just hard to root for him because it appears that he sucks.

I defend his resume on here a lot but I will never like him as a person because of the sick religion he practices. No tolerance for it. But I'm not British either. The British are very timid people and probably love him.

At least they love him in pakistan. Just a shame for him that pakistan is bankrupt, potless, penniless and corrupt and wont buy his fights on ppv.

Khan had huge support in Britain to begin, even after getting flattened in 30 seconds by Prescott. Then he basically left Britain, has fought here once in the last 5 years, lost another few fights and routinely makes some of the most absurd comments in boxing. The most popular fighters in Britain fight in Britain regularly. Agreed especially with the last part. The likes of Degale rarely get a mention these days either and that's because they dont regularly fight in Britain.

I get the impression that a lot of the new British fans simply want to back winners, which is a sad contrast to the history of British boxing and it's fans. They'll fall all over themselves to see "Haye Day" or Brook vs Nobody or Joshua vs Bum matches but won't back Khan in the most challenging and highest profile fight of his career. Yea, he's going to get himself hurt, but this kind of fight is what separates the true fans from the bandwagon jumpers. It's not even like that at all. Khan was loved by the fans at a time when the 7/7 bombings took place and it was open season on Muslims in the UK............... he was still loved, cheered for and spurned on. He gets slaughtered by Prescott? They still support him. You can't leave your country, lose a couple big fights outside your country, do nothing for a few more years mostly outside of your country & expect people to act like nothing happened when your next big fight comes up outside of your country. I'm sure there are still many UK fans supremely interested in this fight, but you can't expect people to act like its 2009 This right here sums up the disconnect and complete lack of interest in him.

Khan and Fury, delusional, arrogant and in different ways clowns. Khan isn't anywhere near the same level of idiot that Fury is, reporters ask Khan a question he gives his opinion and the whole of Boxingscene erupts having a go at him for giving HIS OPINION! Now the difference with Fury is he talks about things at his own leisure about homosexuals about women and so on he does this without any question needed to be given.

Who needs em? He's built his career in America (where it matters), and made his name in the most competitive country for professional boxing. He's set to make $13M against Canelo. That's what you call putting in work.

I get the impression that a lot of the new British fans simply want to back winners, which is a sad contrast to the history of British boxing and it's fans. They'll fall all over themselves to see "Haye Day" or Brook vs Nobody or Joshua vs Bum matches but won't back Khan in the most challenging and highest profile fight of his career. Yea, he's going to get himself hurt, but this kind of fight is what separates the true fans from the bandwagon jumpers. The country was fully behind him to begin with. I believe the tide turned when he made some outrageous claims about him not being a bigger star due to racism.

I think is the ethnicity. English see Khan as a pakistani I guess.

Khan had huge support in Britain to begin, even after getting flattened in 30 seconds by Prescott. Then he basically left Britain, has fought here once in the last 5 years, lost another few fights and routinely makes some of the most absurd comments in boxing. The most popular fighters in Britain fight in Britain regularly.

I get the impression that a lot of the new British fans simply want to back winners, which is a sad contrast to the history of British boxing and it's fans. They'll fall all over themselves to see "Haye Day" or Brook vs Nobody or Joshua vs Bum matches but won't back Khan in the most challenging and highest profile fight of his career. Yea, he's going to get himself hurt, but this kind of fight is what separates the true fans from the bandwagon jumpers.