Has Amir Khan become underrated?

[SinderellaMan]

You don't understand boxing so I get why you would think like you do.

Having a chin matters in boxing, but it's not the most important thing.

The reason Khan is an average fighter now is he can't adjust/think on the fly. He has tunnel vision in the ring and doesn't adapt to what his opponent is doing...especially if the opponent can make adjustments (and start to TIME the speedier Khan). That's what happened versus Swift Garcia (dude wasn't even looking when he threw the punch), Ca$hnelo, and in spots versus other fighters.

Gotta be able to think in the ring and Khan canNOT do that. Chin or not he would've been exposed like he has been for being a limited, speedy fighter

He does have those lapses in concentration that are costly and coupled with that chin, you have a recipe for disaster.
Now on the not understanding boxing part, I fought in Silver Gloves & Golden Gloves, and I trained Golden Gloves fighters for 12 years so I have a decent understanding of the game.

[Curtis Harper]

Underwhelming is how I'd put it.

[Bjl12]

He does have those lapses in concentration that are costly and coupled with that chin, you have a recipe for disaster.
Now on the not understanding boxing part, I fought in Silver Gloves & Golden Gloves, and I trained Golden Gloves fighters for 12 years so I have a decent understanding of the game.

Cool sounds like some good experience. You're either very biased (favoring Khan) or don't pick on things watching fights.

As you've suggested Khan is very poor at changing things within rounds or even in between rounds.

A+ for heart and effort though. The dude comes off as dumb in MANY interviews and it might be that he is legitimately dumb. It's a real possibility

[Fabes88]

Khan is an amazing fighter to watch at his best. It’s just his chin is so bad, in my eyes Khan hasn’t lost a fight where he hasn’t got knocked out. The Peterson fight was bs in my eyes. Firstly Khan shouldn’t have had points deducted and more importantly it should’ve been an nc. Khan won’t beat tc but Khan will win the early rounds and some posters will use that as a way to discredit bud and they really shouldn’t

[SinderellaMan]

Cool sounds like some good experience. You're either very biased (favoring Khan) or don't pick on things watching fights.

As you've suggested Khan is very poor at changing things within rounds or even in between rounds.

A+ for heart and effort though. The dude comes off as dumb in MANY interviews and it might be that he is legitimately dumb. It's a real possibility

I read my post & it comes across as biased for Khan but in all actuality, he annoys the hell out of me.
I expect Bud to put on a masterclass boxing/punching clinic on Khan.
I've been with Bud since day 1.
Khan has fought good competition for the most part but he is delusional and full of himself.
I'm on the same page as you are brother!!

[Ca$ual Fan]

Tim Bradley ruined his career if he didn't duck him Amir wouldn't have been robbed against Peterson and he wouldn't have taken the Garcia fight

So you have to blame Bradley for his loses to Peterson and Garcia? What's next? Blame Floyd or Manny for his loss to Canelo?

[Ca$ual Fan]

I think Khan is both overrated and underrated. He does look good at times when he's boxing his opponent but his defense does suck and not too many people notice that because of how good he looks in the ring. His chin maybe is underrated. I think he can take a punch more than what people give him credit for. But overall, I think I might have overrated him a bit too.

[LacedUp]

i'd say his current reputation is pretty equal to his performance and the expectations we all have.

He's about 10 years past his prime by now and was dropped by a journeyman in his last fight.

[Bjl12]

I think Khan is both overrated and underrated. He does look good at times when he's boxing his opponent but his defense does suck and not too many people notice that because of how good he looks in the ring. His chin maybe is underrated. I think he can take a punch more than what people give him credit for. But overall, I think I might have overrated him a bit too.

I haven't seen Amir look good in a ring since 2011...dude has zero adaptability and zero punch resistance. And that's against extremely poor competition.

Terrence Crawford is Khan's first step up in competition since Canelo and before Canelo it was probably Danny Garcia - which was SUPPOSED to be a somewhat cherrypick to secure the Mayweather fight

Theres your history lesson XD

[dibzvincent143]

I'm not saying Khan belongs on the top 10 P4P list or anything but people are treating him like a total bum now for some reason. Lest we forget this guy was an olympic silver medalist who has 9 former world champions on his resume. I'm not saying he'll beat Crawford but he will definitely give him more of a fight than Garcia did Spence. The closer this fight gets the more i'm actually looking forward to it. You got two guys with great speed and skills. It should be an entertaining fight and Khan will probably win some rounds and make it competitive.

Hell NOOOOOO. When you talk as much shyttte as Khan you’ll get treated like that. He himself said his sparring partners are better than Bum Vargas and that Bum gave him a lot of trouble. He even said he purposedly get KD. Wtf seriously???!!
I gave up on Khan a long time ago. He hasn’t back up any of his talks for years now and he is easily one, if not the most facepalming guy right now in boxing.

Well technically he should do better than Garcia did against spence as he and crawford are of the same fkn weight. Not two classes below.

At least garcia survived against spence, im sure khan wouldn’t.