What is the Hype about Amir Khan????

[Underdog82]

He fought Barerra and won based on something should have not been and all the sudden he is Great. I didn't see the fight but I am wondering had the head butt not happen would he have still won?

Nobody is hyping Khan you idiot.

I just love posts like this that claim completely false stories just to get attention.

[KO2you]

Nobody is hyping Khan you idiot.

I just love posts like this that claim completely false stories just to get attention.

Just love Tossers that get jealous over a simple thread that was not meant to cause controversy. I only asked a simple quest Douche Bag its idiots like you who can't think of anything intelligent to say that makes comments like yours to get Attention.

[Roger Mellie]

Khan is a good prospect with extremely quick hands and a little bit of power.His chin is average but not as much of a problem as some would make out.Roach will straighten out his flaws and he will be a world champion.A lot of irrational hating going on which I cant really fathom.

[Left Hook Tua]

He fought Barerra and won based on something should have not been and all the sudden he is Great. I didn't see the fight but I am wondering had the head butt not happen would he have still won?

he's an olympic silver medalist with fast hands and good skills.

of course he's gonna be hyped up. it's natural.

[Left Hook Tua]

Khan is a good prospect with extremely quick hands and a little bit of power.His chin is average but not as much of a problem as some would make out.Roach will straighten out his flaws and he will be a world champion.A lot of irrational hating going on which I cant really fathom.

i think the in and out flurries roach has pac do at the higher weight classes would be very , very effective with amir.

i can see him being successful with it.

[alza1988]

It's interesting to see what Roach does with him . He predicted DelaHoya Pacquiao wouldn't go more than 9 and it finished in 8 , plus he just predicted Pacquiao Hatton won't go more than 3 rounds and it finished in 2 . I think he'll probably have what it takes to turn Khan good as well.

[Dirty Sanchez]

Khan is a good prospect with a big future ahead of him - people hyped him up far too much early on, now people are dismissing him far too much after the Prescott K.O. He looked very sharp against Barrera and did what he had to do... if anything I think the cut was a bad thing for Khan as it's tarnished his victory, I believe he would have been too quick and too big for Barrera anyway. I look forward to seeing what Roach can get out of him, he's got a great chance to get his first world title against Kotelnik.

[The_Visitation]

Nobody is hyping Khan you idiot.

Yes they are. Khan has been hyped from, and indeed from before, his pro debut.. his career was being stage-managed while he was still an amateur. Where the OP, who is obviously unaware of the history, went wrong was in thinking it had anything to do with the Barrera fight. Khan has been hyped because Frank Warren who, whatever you make think of him in other respects, is actually pretty good at what he does, saw an opportunity for both Khan and him to make money from it. So far they have... you think Roach works for peanuts?

The question is not whether Khan has been hyped, but whether there is anything behind the hype. IMHO there is, Khan is blindingly fast, ****s hard, and is not short on skills (you don't win an Olympic medal at LW without being skilfull).. the faults he has, mostly linked to over-confidence, Roach will beat out of him. What Prescott 'exposed', as far as he exposed anything, is firstly that over-confidence and secondly that Khan's chin is not the best. It is, in fact, no worse than that, despite repeated comments about a 'glass chin'. Will Khan reach the p4p heights? I very much doubt it, but he may well pick up a few titles. Will he get KTFO again at some stage? Almost certainly, as many other good fighters before him have.. that doesn't make him a 'bum', or necessarily 'over-rated', and it doesn't mean he won't KTFO the same opponent in any rematch.

Above all Khan is an exciting fighter. There aren't really that many of those, and they deserve better than what a lot of generally uniformed people have been throwing at Khan.