Comments Thread For: Amir Khan's Last Big Run

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By Tris Dixon - The best high-wire act boxing has had in recent history is back this weekend. Amir Khan, now 31 and with a professional record of 32 wins and four losses, has been making headlines for almost 15 years. If you consider his career, you will either think of the snap, crackle, pop' combinations that come and go like a lightning storm in fast forward or the disastrous knockouts that have seen him worryingly crumple to the canvas like a suit with a disappearing man inside it...
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[BM dnobagaV]

Good read.

First time I actually gave BPP some karma

[medium-deek]

nice article.

[turnedup]

Amir with a chin would've been at the top rung of the sport, I know folks don't like to really look at it that way but naturally gifted among his class...nobody was as gifted. He's got too much going on outside of the sport these days for me to even see it as the last run it's a last big check he seeks and that's fine. This dude checkout of the sport the moment he started seeing money outside of it. He's still a force with his attributes but the focus can't possibly be there.

[vitali1999]

Yes had he had a chin then he would of been at the top a lot longer. When you have a questionable defense then your chin better make up for it. His couldn't

[Wicky]

Nicely written piece. The conclusion is incorrect though. I was a big fan but now I couldn’t care less. The fragility of both his chin & ego are more a draw than a repulsion… who doesn’t want to see a bruised ego in boxing? But, he’s tedious beyond words and his wins owe more to the promoters matchmaking than Khan’s abilities.

Yeah he’s got blinding speed, but at 147 he severely lacks power… putting cab driver Lo Greco to one side. Khan has zero early finishes at 147 except where he’s the one on the canvas. He’s poor defensively and has zero inside game. Everytime I watch him I feel like I’m viewing a highly protected product, and I’m being worked over by a promoter. Khan is everything that’s wrong with boxing. The Coup de grâce is long overdue.

[1hourRun]

Like Frank Sinatra said '' The best is yet to come! ''

[SteveM]

Tris Dixon >>> "...canvas like a suit with a disappearing man inside it." THIS IS BRILLIANT WRITING. It conjures a mind's image that exactly resembles the way Khan collapses.

[SteveM]

Yes had he had a chin then he would of been at the top a lot longer. When you have a questionable defense then your chin better make up for it. His couldn't

I don't thing any current boxer lower than LHW would not have been floored by that Canelo shot. It was just so flush and had so much leverage. And I'm not sure Khan even saw it to make matters worse.

Khan's feet and his eyes are not as quick as his hands. So he is always open to be hit by somebody with reasonably quick feet - he couldn't even evade Algieri's bull rush tactics.

[Plick647]

3 things ruined his career:
his chin
his mouth
and mostly his ego!