Comments Thread For: Arum: Khan Not a Top Fighter, Had No Business Fighting Canelo

[Corelone]

I been saying Khan is not elite,dont know why some try to pretend that he is

Kell Brook thinks he is. Kell has been begging for a Khan fight since forever. After that KO by Canelo, Brook has mentioned nobody else... Oh yeah, maybe Vargas in Sheffield.

[Larry the boss]

Kell Brook thinks he is. Kell has been begging for a Khan fight since forever. After that KO by Canelo, Brook has mentioned nobody else... Oh yeah, maybe Vargas in Sheffield.

Ok?????????????????

[WesternChamp]

ever since khan left roach, his punches has gone down. his punches now is just being thrown out there with no real purpose of hurting or damaging his opponent. when i saw the fight live, i thought khan looked good, his speed was there and he looked fast. but after re-watching the fight, like many on here have stated, those flurries that khan threw was barely landing. most of them were just glazing the gloves, arms of canelo. with roach, khan was throwing hard shots.

[Corelone]

Ok?????????????????

Hearn just got a big write up on how Khan could get paid even more millions for fighting Kell, than he did for flopping with Canelo. They must feel he has star power to make such a statement. Hearn is offering that guy laying on the matt millions to fight Kell.

[FeFist]

"Khan doesn't have the greatest chin and he makes mistakes - and he's not a top fighter. The truth is - he's not. He makes believe that he won the gold medal in the Olympics but he only won the silver."

- Preacher Bob -

It's lines like that that will make me partially miss Bob when he is gone. Straight up savage.

[deathofaclown]

He never was or will be a top fighter. Far too flawed for that. It is what it is. It's useless being fast if you're lacking too much in other departments. He can still beat fringe contenders though. You only have to look at Pac bouncing Algieri off the canvas about 50 times and and Spence flattening him to know what real good fighters do to people of Algieri's level. Im not saying khan should have knocked him out cold but any elite fighter should deal with Chris, whether it's KO or a near shutout. Him and khan are about similar level right now, there or there abouts.

[Teetotaler]

I really hope con responds. I wonder what he'll say. Probably that arum was keeping pacquiao away from him or something

[Wicky]

ODLH fed Khan to Canelo, and Khan's so gullible he believed it would be competitive.

[ShoulderRoll]

Arum is just mad that this mismatch might have gotten more PPV buys than Pac-Bradley 3.

[SteveM]

Mayweather won Bronze,but his point stands true Khan is not elite and that has been proven time and time again

I think we are agreeing. IMO Khan has elite hand speed and that is it. His foot speed may be elite but that is all undone by poor foot placement which in turn is caused by just above average mental processing speed meaning he is too slow to react to incoming, especially after a few blows to his gut.

Edit>> and it doesn't matter how great you are if you don't have any kind of chin - as even elite fighters get tagged once in a while.