Amir Khan General - Pros/Cons

[MarcoHooker]

Every thread seems to go the same way, so how about we try and settle why some people like him and some hate him

Pros

• Heart (in the ring) - Always gets up, wants to fight on
• Speed/Natural talents - Potential
• Exciting fighter
• Never been outboxed
• Will fight anyone - Has challenged low high risk, low reward fighters like
• Bradley, Josetio Lopez & Collazo
• Prepared to change his game/learn
• Personality
• Warrior - Fought a dangerous style despite his chin
• Had a pretty good run at 140, better than anyone from the same period
• or since

Cons

• Heart (outside the ring) - Looking for a big payday to cashout
• Speed/Natural talents - Potential wasted
• No inside game
• Ramadan
• Thicker than a bag of ****
• Talks so much ****
• Weak chin (Not glass but not enviable)
• He has losses on his record

His lack of loyalty to his trainers can be seen as both a pro or con, since he changes trainers because he wants to be a better boxer, that's admirable but leaving them seems kinda fickle but then again Roach and the like aren't as bro-tier as Robert Garcia

[gamefrk]

Heart inside the ring should be a con. Khan should hold when he is hurt.

[gamefrk]

Speed is not a con, he still has the speed he's known for...nothing wasted here as long as he shoots the jab/1-2's & quickly covers his chin.

[MarcoHooker]

Heart inside the ring should be a con. Khan should hold when he is hurt.

After seeing the Collazo fight, he probably will the next time he gets hurt

The heart thing was more to do with the end of the Garcia fight, he actually told Bayless he wanted to fight on

[SplitSecond]

amir khan has speed, but he's not very athletic, if that makes any sense

[El-blanco]

Cons[LIST]
[[*]Ramadan[*]Thicker than a bag of ****

That made my day haha

[Box3r]

If you don't practice Ramadan you won't make a comment like that.

Ask someone who does practice it they would tell you the beauty of it.

[Craveman]

How Ramadan be con? It is a religious month once a year. If it clashes with training, you have 11 months to compromise it with.

[The Gambler1981]

To me his biggest flaw is that Khan has failed on many occasions to learn from his mistakes, he was making the same mistakes for his whole career and it cost him 3 fights (2 by stoppage and a close disputed fight that he could have made much easier on himself).

He did look better against Collazo though (he had the advantages but he actually properly used them at late to make it easy) so maybe at this late stage he has figured some things out. Which would be funny because that change would have come from being so inactive that he was really able to take to Hunter's teachings which many people have trashed but if someone wants to really change what they do in the ring they need to spend time in the gym and not try to do i on the fly.

I am interested to see if he continues to show this improvement or was it just a one off sort of thing although against Lopez I don't think he will be taking any steps back in progress.

[Aristocrat]

His biggest flaws are lack of inside fighting and the glass chin. other than that Amir is one hell of a boxer.