It's not Amir Khan the person I don't rate, it's Amir khan the Pro boxer.
As a Human being he's first class.
As a boxer he's not even a proven top 40 fighter yet he's supposedly headlining a PPV and being lined up for a title shot. Most of his fights have been against lower weight journeymen and bums, the one top 20 fighter he faced had him out of there inside a minute, yet 1 bum later he's fighting a eliminator for a title shot, a title shot that I have no doubt will be for a vacant belt against a journeymen or another lower weight fighter.
It's a sad state of affairs.
Very good post
Sums up my thoughts
Styles make fights,Skelton was beaten at his own game.Valuev fights differently and is a lot taller.This could create problems for Rogan.
Oh is this thread not a joke?
Bit of both.
In days of yore, in that golden era that never happened, you could tell who was a great fighter because they have proven track records, journeymen never got to the top (Witter) and prospects had to beat someone before they got a shot at a belt (Berto).
I think the majority of arguements about the british fighters on NSB are Calzaghe/Hatton/Haye maybe khan.
With Calzaghe you have Brits argueing that he is great but not all time great and Americans argueing he's not all time great just great. neither for some reason is will to admit the other is right...
Hatton is 50% skill 40% heart and 10% fanbase. no one ever claimed he was ATG but to deny him top 10 P4P when he has beaten the P4P No3 and held multiple belts at two levels and is ring belt holder is a bit churish, especially when you have the likes of Dawson being pushed when his best results are against 40 year olds.
Haye is not going to beat the Kitch' bro's unless he lands a bomb before they land a jab and no one not even the Brit rte khan as anything but a well skills KO waiting to happen.
You have some nuthuggers but look at some of the idiots posting about pac-man at the moment and you'll agree they are far from the worst.
To be honest, if a tiny nation like ourselves can have just one world champion, I am happy. People might point to mexico: puerto rico, and argue how many champions they have for small, relatively poor nations, but people need to take into account how many competing sports we have. Boxing gyms are almost empty across the country, but we are still producing good fighters.
With Hatton, Calzaghe, Froch, Haye, and Cook, I think we are all right.
What they said
Not me. I think Froch KO's him, or Jermain wins a decision. I honestly think Pascal would give Taylor a tough time.
I don't really rate Jermain. He lost twice to one dimentional Pavlik, and looked ordinary against Lacy.
Hmm
I definitely agree with your last paragraph
Froch can bang so there is a possibility he will catch Taylor and floor him
But then again he didn't conclusively dominate Pascal in my opinion so I dunno
No offense to the British posters in here but what is going to happen if David Haye gets knocked out by Klit and retires with Joe Calzghe? If Hatton losses his title at 140 where is his career headed? Weebler needs to think about this before talking about American boxing. I know that doesn't mean an end to British boxing but it will cause a serious blow.
Why would Haye retire if he got knocked out by Klitscho? Surely he'd just move back down to light-heavy or do a couple more heavies then try get a rematch?
Hatton should retire after his next fight whether he wins or not imo, unless he can get a Mayweather rematch after cos that's a payday for him, but Mayweahter's already said he wants the winner of Hatton v Pac
You're right though, there's not too many super star British boxers about - unless you think Carl Froch is gonna knock out all the super middes
If people hadn't been saying he said "n***er" I would have heard it as "mayor". But now people have been saying this I am undecided. I think mayor though.
I'm far from the most knowledgable guy, especially compared to guys at my gym and a few guys on here. However I like to think my general boxing knowledge is superior to the average "fan", i.e. the type who thought Hatton could beat Mayweather and become boxing experts overnight when a big fight is hyped in the papers (i.e. the type of guy who was telling you Hatton would beat Mayweather).
I do tend to follow certain boxers a lot more than others though, eg Judah (don't hold it against me), Hopkins, basically a few guys from the welter to super middle divisions. Oh yeah and Tyson. Seen a lot of his old fights multiple times.
LMAO
Hopkins >>>>_______
Lol @ Pedro talking shit to him "you ain't coming to my block", as if Hopkins came to the studio the guy wouldn't shit himself.
He goes by the name Shane Mosely
lmao
But yeah if it's true he won Golden Gloves as well then boy, he could of been a pro boxer. But yeah, music money >>> fight money.
You learn something new everyday.
I want Prescott to win, especially after Khan's arrogant comments about Prescott underestimating him, when Khan has only ever fought bin men.
However, I agree about maybe making the weight takes something out of Khan, he is the lightweight Paul Williams, I'm half an inch shorter than Khan and it would kill me trying to get to 135.
I haven't read many posts so I'm not sure if it's been said, but in my opinion it's the people who DON'T know boxing who read the papers and watch the sky tv clips and are sucked into the Great British Media Hype Machine and believe that (a) They know boxing cos they read a couple articles and (b) They believe what the papers say (causing hype + promoting GB boxers = more £££).
REAL British boxing fans who know boxing don't hype our boxers to the same level I don't think, not in my experience anyway.