Comments Thread For: Khan: I'll Always Have World Title Fights, Brook Will Be There Too

[angkag]

I’m not sure it’s fair to say his career was entirely crafted for ease. He could have held onto one belt and refused to travel like others have done. He could have done a Wilder and taken one challenge for every five fringe contender fights and pad his record out. He didn’t, he took a tough defence against Garcia he then took on a prime Peterson in his home town (and got robbed). He then climbed his way back up the rankings and unable to get a door open at his favoured weight took on one of the best fighters of a generation giving away a heap of weight. ****** perhaps, but definitely not carefully crafted.

I totally agree with Crawford he had a very easy pathway to opportunity based on his local fame and that definitely eats at Khan’s confidence, but to say his career was a facade of easy fights is really unfair.

He isn’t good enough to fight Crawford, probably would never have been and very few ever will be. He was better at LWW, but was not able to continue at that weight and sought a new challenge.

If you ask me, Khan’s inability to focus and get back on track five years ago is all about his lifestyle. He was a crash weight loser, a bad habit. He married a gold digging dumb ass and had to constantly appease issues at home. He grew up training, fasting for his religion and managing fame poorly, so found himself with an 18yr olds maturity in a 30yrs old body and couldn’t keep his D in his pants.

Basically, you could say he blew the talent he has and even though he blew it, he won and defended multiple world titles, made more than $30m, will have some kind of profile in UK to eat off for the rest of his life and became the first Pakastani to make a career at top level boxing. By the standards of most humans, he is a huge success.

Good post. A lot of home truths in there. I admit to being a little more cynical about Khan's resume, but you are correct that he deserves credit for a period of time in his resume between 2009 and 2011 when he was making the most of his talents.

However, this was likely the time that the bad habits, both lifestyle and training, started to catch up with him, likely leading to the Peterson and Garcia losses.

The period my cynicism too root was after 2012 when he went to 147 and started calling out Mayweather and Pac. He wasn't the only one angling for the life-changing paydays that a date with either of those offered, but he avoided every credible threat at 147 for a lot of years.

I read the Canelo fight in the same way - a payday where he could still keep credibility at 147 at a time where there was still a possibility of getting a date with Pac. It pretty much followed the Brook model with Golovkin.

If you look at his run at 147 while calling out May/Pac, you only have 4 names, Julio Diaz (142lbs), Collazo, Alexander and Algieri (who he only just sc****d by). During a period he was claiming to be the best welterweight, no Porter, Garcia (at 147), Thurman, Bradley, Spence, Broner (Broner would have been a threat in 2013 or thereabouts), Maidana (at 147), Brook.

So it was the constant claims of welterweight qualification for May/Pac without ever actually validating it in the ring, and the way I saw it, he was only able to maintain his illusion of welterweight credibility by avoiding any of the top guys who would have exposed him for what he was, vulnerable.

Then the post Canelo 'comback' with two laughable opponents, then being able to cash in with a 5 mil payday with Crawford, but once again, being able to limp away continuing to claim WW credentials in only losing to one of the top P4P guys on the planet.

So its mainly the post 2012 period where it all got carefully managed for the paydays, with Canelo and Crawford being the consolation prizes for not landing the big May/pac payday it was all designed for.

[Dean_Razorback]

i love watching him get KO'd so.... keep getting those fight amir!!