> Is Amir Khan the most overhyped 21st century boxer?

Is Amir Khan the most overhyped 21st century boxer?

Posted at: 2015-04-20 
Congratulations - You have just revealed that your knowledge on the sport of boxing is - Zip!

Your rant makes me wonder did Khan run off with your girl friend or something, it's fuelled by hate and anger.. (In hindsight, you probably don't have the social skills to maintain a relationship...)

Lets debunk some of your incoherent rabble:

1) The guy you refer to as 'junk' is a former world boxing champion - That accolade alone permits him to share the same ring as either Pacquiao or Mayweather..... And if you did your homework, you would find that he HAS shared the ring many times with Pacquiao

2) Speed is one of the main assets of a top drawer boxer - An attribute not to be deemed as 'Crap'

3) 32 fights - With two KO defeats... Hardly the most laughable boxing record in history?? Do you even follow boxing I wonder??

4) Paki - ??? Self explanatory with regards to your intelligence & mind set.

5) Garcia dropped Khan a couple of times? - This is correct, you fail to mention that Khan dragged himself of the canvas a couple of times too... The referee had to stop Khan from fighting on, he just wouldn't stay down - You forget to mention that point in your rant?

6) First round KO via Prescott - Yep, got caught cold, that's boxing, it happens!

7) Pac / Floyd offspring..?? - That just about sums you up!

As you can see... You have made yourself look ridiculous on this forum. I suggest you close your account, create a new one, learn from this experience, and we'll pretend it never happened....

I agree with Eddie F.

Khan is no hype job. Actually Khan started his pro career rather unauspiciously having failed to win the gold in the 2004 Athens Olympics being fancied to bring it home after dominating the world amateurs in the lightweight division the year before.

Khan has had to work his way up in the pros. He was no pampered protected ward. That he proved when he took on fellow unbeaten prospect the big punching Breidis Prescott who was coming off a win over another prospect Richar Abril. Khan was blitzed inside one round and a loss like that could have dishearten a fighter of lesser stuff. But Khan shook off that defeat and forged on finally winning his first major international title beating Marco Antonio Barrera and his first world title at junior welterweight beating Andreas Kotelnik. He continued his winning ways beating the likes of Dmitri Salita Paulie Malignaggi Rene Marcos Maidana and Zab Judah before hitting snags in succession against Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia losing his world titles.

He is back in the hunt for another world title at welterweight and it is not far fethched to suggest that he is now in the level of Pacquiao and Mayweather seeing his continuous improvement and how the two have been showing decline in their own skills.

Not even Adrien Broner is a hyper job as he continues to challenge himself in the higher welterweight after dominating in the junior lightweight and lightweight classes. Many are even now beginning to appreciate Broner's tenure at the lower weights seeing the worth of his forrner victims as Vicente Escobedo.

The over-hyped fighter tag can be labelled to Gennady Golovkin who has yet to face solid rated opposition ( top five ) at middleweight and yet he is now being compared to the likes of Greb Hagler and Monzon!

Ditto with Sergei Kovalev!

That title belongs to broner

Collazo, Maidana, Judah, Mallignaggi... the guy has a decent record.

Michael Grant was

I remember in 2000 when he fought Lewis he was supposed to be this giant unbeaten fighter who would take the titles back to America.

Big Lennox wiped the floor with him. Grant's chin was ridiculous.

Broner or Canelo. Both brought up on gimme fights. Two frauds in my book.

He's certainly up there

May be or may not but this guy has some great potential to give any boxing champ a tough time in the boxing ring. Isn't it?

Broner is.

I agree with you.

How the hell is that junk even comparable to Mayweather and Pacquiao, to the extent of having either of these two sharing the same ring with him as suggested by some people?

No doubt he is fast, elusive and all that crap that people hypes him as a boxer. But that greaser has probably got the most laughable chin in the history of boxing. In regards to him fighting Danny Garcia, that paki was basically abusing Garcia like a dad committing child abuse that i will admit but he GOT caught by the hook of a flat-footed, slow moving boxer that probably in 2 years from now will be forgotten. And prior to that knockout, the guy was dropped a couple of times!!

And that 1st round knockout by Prescott has got to be THE most humiliating KO in the history of the sport. He is the epitome of a glassjaw.

If Floyd and Pac ever had an offspring together, it would be Khan. Cuz he slick like Floyd, but can be carelessly aggressive like Pac hence the reason of him being put to sleep, time again.