Secret to Amir Khan's career: he was always average vs orthodox fighters, but exceptional against southpaws (due to sparring prime Pacquiao).

[RadChang]

Khan's best career performances were all Southpaws- Judah, Collazo, Alexander, McCloskey, etc. Against southpaws Khan floats and flurries like a prime Muhammad Ali, almost never gets hurt.

Yet he often gets dropped or hurt by Orthodox fighters: Prescott, Peterson, Garcia, Diaz, Vargas, Brook. (Crawford was a switch-hitter).

Why is this?

Answer: Khan did hundreds of rounds of sparring with a PEAK Manny Pacquiao, the greatest southpaw fighter in history.

Those brutal sparring sessions made Khan almost invulnerable against southpaws. He's seen all the angles, felt all the speed.

Khan should have cherry-picked more southpaws in his career.

[sunny31]

He was good at fighting southpaws but that can be tracex back to him amateur days. Im sure the experience with Pac helped, but that isnt the reason.

His performance against Mcloskey was average.

Malignaggi and Kotelnik were two of his best performances.

He was great at fighting back foot boxers

[Emperor Trump]

Malignaggi and Kotelnik were two of his best performances.

Not even close dude Maidana hurt him badly several times and Maidana at the time didn't train properly and had no corner.

Maidana reached his prime under Robert Garcia.

[Emperor Trump]

Not gonna lie Khan did look phenomenal against Collazo, Alexander, Judah, etc. Beat Collazo better than Thurman did and beat Alexander better than Porter did.

Maybe he should have taken the Spence fight instead of the Canelo fight lol.

[JakeTheBoxer]

He looked great against Collazo and Alexander, two flat footed washed up guys, yes. He should have fought Guerrero and Berto for example, he would have got more that kind of wins that way, lol...

He always ****** fighting somebody good. Just his hand speed was always there.

[Da Pimper]

Well, a prime Manny Pacquiao wasn't a bad training partner to have that's for sure.

[sunny31]

Not even close dude Maidana hurt him badly several times and Maidana at the time didn't train properly and had no corner.

Maidana reached his prime under Robert Garcia.

Not sure why you're talking about Maidana