Grade a fighter day 11: What grade do you give Amir Khan?

[HitmanTommy]

Disclaimer: These threads will be MAILED in a envelope and sent to each individual fighter. The cutoff for these votes will be 24 hours. After that, the poll closes and the thread along with the poll results gets mailed off to the fighters address.

Once grades for 15 fighters have been completed, everything gets mailed out.


How the voting process works: Whichever grade has the most votes will be the fighters majority grade.

Day 1: Frank Bruno 21 votes: majority grade = B
Day 2: Deontay Wilder 30 votes: majority grade = C+
Day 3: Antonio Margarito 27 votes: majority grade = B
Day 4: Michael Spinks 28 votes: majority grade = A+
Day 5: Adrien Broner 33 votes: majority grade = B
Day 6: Shannon Briggs 41 votes: majority grade = C
Day 7: Paulie Malignaggi 38 votes: majority grade =C/C+
Day 8: Miguel Cotto 40 votes: majority grade = A
Day 9: Zab Judah 42 votes: majority grade =B
Day 10: Hasim Rahman 21 votes: majority grade =B


Ranks

A+ Class
Michael Spinks
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A Class
Miguel Cotto
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A- Class

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B+ Class

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B Class
Antonio Margarito
Frank Bruno
Adrien Broner
Zab Judah
Hasim Rahman
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B- Class

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C+ Class
Deontay Wilder
Paulie Malignaggi
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C Class
Shannon Briggs
Paulie Malignaggi
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C- Class

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D class

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F Class

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What grade Do you give Amir Kahn?

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[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I’d give him an A.

Just a shame his chin is a Z.

[blowblow]

C- a good fighter just minus the Chin so C- (chin minus)

[Dodger07]

A+ handspeed, F- chin.

Decent power, mediocre skills.

Overall, I'd give him a B-

[Carpe Diem]

A++++++++++++. The greatest boxer ever! Point blank Period!

[PRINCEKOOL]

C +.

Amir Khan you could say, is a fighter who has really capitalized on his own abilities. In his career he has always left it all inside the ring, and left no stoned upturned.

Ability wise he has abnormal hand speed, to the point where 'Some fighters could do nothing, but just cover up or weather the storm'. Amir Khan had the ability to operate at a level of action so fast, his opponents could not comprehend or compute what was actually happening.

Canelo Alvarez basically accepted that he could not out box Amir Khan, and banked on 'Just waiting and waiting until Khan made a mistake' Alvarez was being out boxed by Khan, he could do nothing etc

Note: Nobody gives Khan credit for being able to pick himself back up after a devastating loss, after his first brutal loss 'He was training in his boxing gym, the very next day giving interviews to news reporters' I could of graded him at B -, but I may stick with C +.

[786]

I've gone for B. I'm probably one of the few that sees him as an over-achiever. All he really has is speed of hand and foot. Otherwise, he hasn't got a good boxing IQ, he doesn't adapt well (if at all) if the game plan isn't working. Also, he doesn't always follow the game plan properly and gets himself KO'd. Which brings me to my next point: no chin. He moves in and out in straight lines, doesn't time his attacks but mindlessly throws combinations without being alert/aware of what might be coming back so he becomes easy to time when his opponents start to read his predictable rhythm and punch with him. Outside of using his feet, he has no defense, doesn't exactly have world class power.

For someone who spent a career relying on speed, he's achieved a lot. Kudos to you Khan.

[Songbird]

D for Dunce

[patron]

He was an elite fighter at 140, unified titles. But didn’t reach that level at 147 nor any other weight class. He gets a B+

[ruedboy]

Khan had some decent wins vs Collazo, Molina and Alexander but lost when he stepped up in class. B-