Amir Khan - Delusional... or a great publicist
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Exactly this ^^^^Terribly WRONG.
let me give u some history.
He was the ONLY Great Britain Olympian to enter the Athens 2005 Olympics at age 17. He won a silver medal. He's a ****** that represents his home country of Pakistan and England. This achievement alone was huge.
He had significant backing with top promoter Frank Warren where his fights were shown or terrestrial TV to MILLIONS (No exaggeration). His performances talk too, he is incredibly exciting and always showed that on TV. He isn't just a boxer, he's a celebrity due to this.
From an achievement perspective, well obviously first came the brutal KO where everybody thought he'd never do anything in boxing and hide away - that didn't happen. Instead he faced the music and went out to become a world champion at 140. He had made his reputation, then he left for America where he had top backing with GBP. You know who he fought since then.
Anyway, what you need to understand is his backing was extremely and still is very strong because of his nationality, religion and so on. I barely touched the surface with this. There is A lot more but w/e.Comment
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Khan is delusional but he has also done well.
IMO the Peterson fight was dodgy on 3 levels, the ref, scoring and the PED's.
Peterson has not been the same without them IMO.
I felt Khan still won by 1 round but nevermind.
His chin is **** so he is delusional when he says he has one of the best chins...
At the end of the day, we are all here talking about him so he must be relevant...Comment
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