Amir Khan vs Briedis Prescott

atpbx said:
this Columbian is no world beater, he's a decent fighter and nothing more.
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How do you know this? I'd never heard of Prescott before, neither had any of the Sky commentators nor many others on the boxing forums I frequent. Have you seen him fight before, labour against someone or get in trouble?
 
Psycho Ned said:
However IMO he hadn't made easy work of it which is why I thought he was totally overhyped.

He got put down by Willie Limond who's not much more than a domestic class fighter with hardly any KO's in his career.

Michael Gomez was a past it super featherweight and he had Khan down, rocking and rolling as well.

He was making heavy weather of beating the low level fighters he was always going to get mullered first time he tackled someone half decent.

Even the Columbian bloke was a nothing fight in the division yet looked like Tyson in his prime against Khan!!
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I would agree, he did have some trouble with some of the fights but he is still learning but loads of people were for ever moaning that he was fighting losers. He cant win, take the time to build up experience by going through the ranks and get slated for fighting losers or move up too quick and people cheer that he got knocked out.

Perhaps he really isnt as good as some may think but for British people to be happy that some foreigner knocked out someone that represents Britain on the world stage is pathetic.
 
Psycho Ned said:
However IMO he hadn't made easy work of it which is why I thought he was totally overhyped.

He got put down by Willie Limond who's not much more than a domestic class fighter with hardly any KO's in his career.

Michael Gomez was a past it super featherweight and he had Khan down, rocking and rolling as well.

He was making heavy weather of beating the low level fighters he was always going to get mullered first time he tackled someone half decent.

Even the Columbian bloke was a nothing fight in the division yet looked like Tyson in his prime against Khan!!
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Totaly agree man, Limond is a perfect example of his past opposition he limped thru that fight.

To say Khan moved thru the ranks IMO is untrue and a little naive

This all said.. i kinda like the guy and think he needed this, get hes feet back on the ground
 
Bear said:
Perhaps he really isnt as good as some may think but for British people to be happy that some foreigner knocked out someone that represents Britain on the world stage is pathetic.
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The problem with Khan is, he isnt a good fighter, you can see it, i can see it, everybody on here can see it.
Its the being told by him, and his crew, and warren and the TV that he is the Great British hope and one of the best they have ever seen with no actual evidence.
He is a big headed lad who is telling everyone he is going to the best in the world on the basis that he has put a couple of losers who pretty much cant hit back on their arse.
Thats what people dont like, he's all mouth and no trousers just like the ********* you meet down the pub.
 
Ed said:
How do you know this? I'd never heard of Prescott before, neither had any of the Sky commentators nor many others on the boxing forums I frequent. Have you seen him fight before, labour against someone or get in trouble?
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I've heard the name but not a lot a lot else, heard a bit about him on talksport over the past week or so, all evidence suggested he was a tidy boxer with a bit of power behind his punches.

As it turned out, that was more than enough to wipe the floor with Khan.
 
Ed said:
How do you know this? I'd never heard of Prescott before, neither had any of the Sky commentators nor many others on the boxing forums I frequent. Have you seen him fight before, labour against someone or get in trouble?
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Yes, I have... he won a controversial decision against Abril in his previous fight (even though Abril took the fight on short notice).

Might have just been an off night, who knows... Wont know until we see him in his next few fights to know if he really was that good or hard punching or not.
 
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atpbx said:
The problem with Khan is, he isnt a good fighter, you can see it, i can see it, everybody on here can see it.
Its the being told by him, and his crew, and warren and the TV that he is the Great British hope and one of the best they have ever seen with no actual evidence.
He is a big headed lad who is telling everyone he is going to the best in the world on the basis that he has put a couple of losers who pretty much cant hit back on their arse.
Thats what people dont like, he's all mouth and no trousers just like the la la la you meet down the pub.
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Khan is a good fighter, in certain areas he does have a lot of potential. In most of his fights he's shown he has quick hands as well as being able to throw a variety of accurate shots. Unfortunately, he's also often shown that he can't take a punch. But not only can he not take punches, he can't actually defend against having to take them in the first place, which is obviously a big problem.
 
Guys watch the replays very closely. The punch that wobbled khan was his own lol or seems that way

he punched himself
 
wedgie said:
Unfortunately, he's also often shown that he can't take a punch. But not only can he not take punches, he can't actually defend against having to take them in the first place, which is obviously a big problem.
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Precisely, he shouldn't be getting caught like that that in the first place, at least not 30s into round 1. Hamed, fuelled by the same hype machine used to ponce around with little in the way of a guard at times but a) he was more agile than kahn, and b) he actually had a chin to speak of.
 
Comparing Khan to Naseem is not justified imo, the only thing they had in common really was the colour of their skin. I wasn't a huge fan of Naseem, but he was very very talented. He too was put up against bums at the beginning of his career, the difference is he totally demolished them. He won every fight, fought some half decent fighters along the way, got hit a few times and took it, showed speed and agility and power in the ring, lost in the end to an all time boxing great. There is no shame in that, I honestly believe if he still had the hunger he was more then capable of coming back and beating Barrera, but by that stage he had made far too much money. I think he fought once after that but he was never the same. He was never KO'd in his career though.

Frank Warren (the prat) made a comment saying well at least he wasn't given a hiding over 6-7 rounds, he just got clipped, got unlucky and that was that, he was actually saying this like it's a good thing. There is a huge difference between 'being beaten' and 'being KO'd inside 1 minute of round 1' lol. Cotto was beaten by Margarito, Hatton was beaten by Mayweather. But getting KO'd clean inside the first minute of round 1 is not the same as just getting beat. Every single half decent fighter out there with half a decent shot will fancy their chances against Khan in all honesty.

I do feel sorry for him in a way but I'm glad the hype is all over now, time to put him against 4-5 nobodies again to get him some confidence back. Unless he seriously sorts out his defence, I don't think he has any chance, it's not like he can work on improving his chin.

This was always gonna happen, we all knew it, even Frank Warren knew it but it wasn't suppose to happen this early in his career lol.
 
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e36Adz said:
This was always gonna happen, we all knew it, even Frank Warren knew it but it wasn't suppose to happen this early in his career lol.
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It is fairly good it happened like this, if he was beaten around the ring for 7 rounds and made to look like a complete bum they'd get no money for the next fight at all. Now they can play up the lucky punch angle and get another fight out of him :p


He really isn't a good fighter, he has quick hands, with no power behind them, he does that ridiculously showy thing boxers do to warm up, the 8 punches close to the body thing you always see them doing warming up, but he did it in fights. It looks fast, but it does no damage, he did it quite often and basically just tapped or slapped the other guy a bunch of times, really useless.

The only people he's shown to be a good technical fighter against, are people with little to no boxing skills, it only means he's better than the crap fighter, not better than other fighters.

Theres also something different about Naseem/other fighters and Khan/audley. Most fighters don't really do the amateur thing, most boxers do fight bums but thats because everyone starts off crap. You learn and get better by always fighting someone better than the last fight. THe problem is Khan fought his share of crap fighters in his amateur fights, he didn't need to go back to fighting no hopers when he went pro, he needed to keep moving upwards. He was an ok fighter when amateur, he's gotten worse with every fight, getting more showy, defending less and being complacent with his punching, prefering showy fast crap to good punching. Fighters don't often come back from such a big loss tbh.
 
Glass chin or not, the best fighters don't take those shots. Offensively he is world class, defensively he is miles off. I said 6 months ago he should in the US training with roger mayweather, the man who taught flloyd to slip those types of shots.
 
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