Comments Thread For: Schaefer: Khan Needs Trainer Who Devotes 100% To Him

[STEELHEAD]

khans still young and will make a comeback no doubt.

he keeps falling back to fighting like an amature. he don't listen to roach.
but like manny stewart said he got nailed by a garcia punch while doing nothing wrong. he was winning the fight.

khan has got to mature and learn to stay focused in the ring .
for what its worth i think amir surrounds himself with a bunch
of 'Yes' people.

[DonCarlos83]

He didn't do any dance against Maidana. He was hurt in the tenth but he didn't do a dance (he was badly wobbled but so have many people been who have great chins - being badly wobbled is not the same thing as doing a dance); and he survived well for more than two more rounds. And prior to the tenth he took many of Maidana's hardest punches without flinching.



He is not at all one-dimensional. He's over-rated by some, and seriously under-rated by you. He's extremely talented and has serious flaws. But to call him one-dimensional shows you have an irrational hatred of him, because no objective person would call him that. His ring intelligence isn't great but that's doesn't make him one-dimensional.

As for his frequent statements that sound arrogant, I think it's more likely that he's naive, childlish, self-centred and not very bright, rather than arrogant in the true sense.



Of course not, but he has naive dreams of glory like a school kid who dreams of achieving great things when they grow up. Most fighters with any talent have such dreams but don't express them in a way that sounds arrogant like he does. But I don't think he's genuinely arrogant, he sounds more childish than anything to me with the ****** things he says. And in any case, while the things he says might be a valid reason not to like him as a person (although I think he's likeable despite his ****** statements, they're just part of his childish enthusiasm for life as far as I'm concerned), they are not a reason to under-rate him as a boxer or to call him one-dimensional when he clearly isn't.



If that was supposed to be funny it failed dismally (although Judah is a big puncher but he didn't catch him). Maidana caught him many times without seriously hurting him, before he did hurt him in the tenth; but Khan didn't do a dance then, and he recovered. And your excuse about the referee is just an excuse.

Words fail me.
Go back and watch the Maidana fight he landed a big right hand after about a minute of the 10th, the music in Khans head started and the dance began. Why is what I said I said about the ref an excuse? I'm not a Maidana fan, I haven't said Maidana should have won the fight. The FACT is that Khan was protected by the ref in the 10th round of that fight.
You claim that Khan has been caught by many big punchers and so far your list contains Maidana (discussed above) and...... Wait for it...... ZAB JUDAH??? You are saying that the version of Super Zab that Khan fought was a big puncher???? Seriously??
Amir Khan has a certain way of fighting (I will admit it is eye catching but it is also largely ineffective at the top level) when that style doesn't yield success he has no other options. He does not have a plan B. That makes him one dimensional. Can you enlighten us with an example of Amir Khan making changes in a fight to turn things around? I don't think so.
You have named fighters that, debatably, have weak chins. If we accept that what you say is true we have to look at what they have done. They have changed their styles to protect their weakness. Amir Khan is incapable of doing that. He is 25 now he is no longer an up and coming young fighter he is right in the middle of his supposed prime and if has not yet learnt yet to protect that almighty glass jaw then I suggest he never will. ONE DIMENSIONAL

[DARKSEID]

khan can have a hundred trainers but the fight is still up to him.

You can't train to win- because the victory only presents itself in the ring, and how someone reacts to it is all based on heart.