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This is why boxing is screwed. In MMA someone can have 6 contests, go 3-2-1 and be respected as a good fighter because in the ring you can see they are quality. In boxing you have 30+ fights and if you don't walk them all you are crap and some bloke who just had one decent fight (Horn) is all of sudden the better fighter.
Amir Khan is a better boxer than Horn, on paper, fact, the records don't even compare. Khan is 30 not washed up.
To say Khan Peterson was 'somewhat' controversial is like saying Tyson (either of them) did a 'bit' of coke. Peterson was PED'd up to his eyeballs and on camera someone tampered with the scorecards - Khan was robbed in one of his best fights of his career, it was a disgrace to the sport (and keep in mind I don't even like Khan). Btw he was aged 24 at the time and was already on his 6th title defence, because he won his first world title at aged 22 - yeah real frickin loser this guy!!!
Read the articles from the Algieri fight, watch it again, look at the stats, Khan won the fight but just didn't blow the guy away, it wasn't controversial. Also note that Chris was commonly reported to have fought much better than he did against Pacman where he went the full 12, so Algieri is hardly a bum and he was fighting a much more prime version of Pac than Horn did.
Compubox stats for the fight.
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