Khan-Garcia: Final picks

Yeah, that brain-dead Hun Watt was fucking unbearable, it's like he was reading a script and the blow-by-blow man sounded like he had never seen a match before

 

Garcia should fight Peterson now, although there's a lot of great fights out there against: Mathysse, Rios, Madaina, even Marquez.

 

Amir could still milk his career. Just don't go anywhere near someone with a good chin.

 

Maybe he should try to get the winner of Kevin Mitchell-Ricky Burns to move up and fight him.

 

I thought Watt was on the money last night.

 

Garcia does look stupid as hell when he tries to come forward. He looks worse than Vitali when he tries to initiate the attack, and considering that he is a foot shorter and 100 lbs lighter, thats not good. He's far better when the other guy attacks {especially if the other guy is Khan} and he can find gaps and counter.

 

Classic Khan, getting smaller guys to move up. Limond, Gomez, St-Clair, all former 130lbrs, and two of them had Khan on the mat.

I alluded before to the sarky nature of Carl Froch and he's been at it again recently. Such a sarky cunt at times. Froch never liked Khan being described as the best fighter in Britain, and rightly so, but hanging around dropping one-liners after somebody has lost makes Froch sound like a bitter-apple farmer. Then Khan goes one better by claiming 140 is tougher than 168, which suggests premature brain-damage. On the behalf of Khan.

From the BBC:

"Amir Khan not considering retirement after Danny Garcia loss"

Amir Khan has dismissed suggestions that he should retire after losing his WBA light-welterweight title with a fourth-round defeat by Danny Garcia.

Khan also lost to Lamont Peterson in December and IBF super-middleweight world champion Carl Froch said his boxing career was now "a write-off".

But 25-year-old Bolton fighter told BBC Sport: "I'm not talking about retiring, I'm still young, I've got a lot in me.

"I'm still hungry and I'll come back a lot better and a lot stronger."

It was the third setback of Khan's career following a first-round knockout against Breidis Prescott in 2008 and the Peterson result.

Froch claimed that if he was in the same position as his compatriot, he would hang up his gloves .

But Khan responded: "Carl's always got his little things to say and I'll leave it to that really. If he wants to retire he can retire.

"I'm in a tougher division, I'm fighting better opposition and I'm a bigger name than him. That's what burns him really.

"People are going to say things after this fight but people said things after the Prescott fight and you see how I came back from there."

Prior to the fight, Khan had talked about stepping up to welterweight for a meeting with unbeaten American Floyd Mayweather.

But he now admits it is more likely he will remain at light welterweight for at least one more bout.


It's put things back," he explained. "I made 140lbs very comfortably this time and I think it will be ideal for me to stay maybe one more fight - if I can win the title and then move up to 147lbs. No rush.

"People believe 'Amir should be moving up, doing this, doing that'. People forget how old I am. I'm still young and there's a lot I need to work on before I do move up to the next division.

"We're going to try for the rematch. I don't know if they're going to take it, but if we can get that in England it will be amazing."

Khan insisted he had "no regrets" apart from the huge left hook that dropped him to the canvas in round three.

Trainer Freddie Roach feels his charge can return from this latest setback, but Khan hinted that he would reconsider their partnership.

Khan has spent a number of months away from home - training in Los Angeles and the Philippines before facing Garcia in Las Vegas.

"I'm going to sit down when I go home and see where we go from there," he added. "I want to be the main priority.

"A lot of travelling - going to the Philippines, here, there, everywhere - does take a lot out of you, especially when you're a young fighter and I've never done it before.

"I'm going to start thinking about myself because normally I'm thinking about others too much and I'm the one who's in the ring taking the punishment. It's time now where maybe I do things a bit differently.

"When you're nice and just agree with everything, sometimes even though you're not happy doing things, you just do them. But I'm going to have to sit down with the team now and do things I want to do.

"There are a lot of untied knots there and we're going to fix them.

 

Froch might be bitter, but Khan is just a delusional little turd.

Hopefully when they see eachother in person, Froch slaps the shit outta him. Froch's slap alone would be enough to make Amir do the Bambi.

And yes, Khan has indeed gone full retard if he thinks 140 is better than 168.

 

Froch needs to buy a field with a gate that looks out over the main road, and then he needs to put on some denims and wellington boots, and then lean over the gate, stick a piece of straw in his mouth, and complain endlessly for hours on end to everyone who passes by.

 

Gotta admit, he's a funny fucker though.

Did you hear what he said in response to Pavlik calling him out?

"I honestly thought he was still in rehab."

 

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Jim Watt is a total mook and that other guy on Saturday is a complete piece of shit. The only two UK commentators worth a damn are Ian Darke and John Rawling. Rawling was at the Haye-Chisora card; no idea what has happened to Darke.

MTF

 

That's true about 50% of the time, I agree, but even worse if the other 50%, when they become obsessed with the fact that the British fighter is 'outclassed' and go in the complete opposite direction, ignoring anything that he does well in favour of downplaying his efforts.

Either way, it's crap.

MTF

 

That's some brain dead bullshit mind.

MTF :shit::notallthere:

 

:: @ Khan when he says he spends too much time thinking about other people. Did he mean that he spent too much time thinking about Petersen and the like? Poor Amir, being pushed around and not having enough time for himself.

Froch was right. His career is a write-off. If he keeps taking on decent-ish competition, he gets laid out again soon. If he goes back to the UK circuit and beats up local smelts, then he becomes a parody of his former glorious self and becomes known as a local bully who consumes the small fry.

And there is still a chance that guys like Rees could make him look bad in any case.

He needs to sit down, take stock of his finances and find a graceful way out of the game.

Its only 8 years since Athens when he looked so good, now he's already damaged goods. Time to get out.

 

Just imagine if Khan never won another fight? Say he lost his next 2 fights and retired, it really would put him in perspective.

:: At "fighting better opposition". Pretty hilarious. He's lost 2 of his most recent 4 fights, and 3 of the fighters are McCloskey, Peterdude, and Garcia.

 

Khan might as well retire. He's only 25, but he's taken A LOT of punishment.

Between the brutal Prescott KO, the damage he took in the Maidana war. The damage he took in the Peterson fight. Now this.

Dude is gonna end up brain damaged.

In many ways, he's the 140 pound version of Jermain Taylor. Only that's a bit of an insult to JT, considering he was much better than Khan.

 

Khan's always been a bit slow, so it wouldn't make much difference ::

 

I usually think stuff like this is absurd and really jumping the gun, seeing as the guy is only 25 etc, and you or someone else say this about most fighters when they lose ::

But for once it makes sense, with Khan. He must have already made a relative shitload of money, and he's just not built to take punishment. He looks weird when he gets hit hard.

 

It just shows how retarded the kid really is. Froch has fought, in an eight fight streak, arguably the highest level of comp ever put together by a British fighter, relative to their division. It's a remarkable run, with a Bute rematch already scheduled and a Kessler rematch in the works. In this month's Boxing Monthly, Froch has fought seven of the top eight ranked fighters in his weight class (he is the other) and his record is 6-1.

Khan has always been 'a bit slow' but I do wonder if the kid has actual brain damage.

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I said it after the fight and I still say that Khan should retire. He is a multi-millionaire whose only way from here is down. Why would he want to fight scrubs like Brook for relative peanuts after headlining in Vegas? Yes he is only 25 but he is an old 25 in boxing terms; he's been pro for about eight years and has taken two bad beatings and fought wars with plenty of other guys. He is also showing signs of genuine neurological damage.

If he packs in now, his pals at SKY will give him a nice little number alongside Barry and the two klumps watching fights and talking some shite. He should take it.

MTF

 

Yup.

 

Khan is the new David Reid, but at least Reid lost to a Hall Famer...or maybe the new Fernando Vargas, but Vargas fought better opposition than Khan.

 

Jesus christ, if listening to Khan "voyzing his ping" on fights is the alternative, I hope he doesn't retire ::

It would be Duke McKenzie times two. Not sure who is dumber, fencepost boy probably just pips it.

 

BTW Slice my boy, one down and one to go. People know the score with Khan now, and as soon as Scrubby James steps in class again, his scrubbiness shall shine forth :kidcool:

 

Khan is an actual moron with little of interest to say but I'd much, MUCH rather listen to him than either Glen 'three chains short of a heavy-bag' McCrory or Jonny 'the Coward' Nelson. Listening to Nelson especially makes me want to vomit blood; how that frightened shit-house has the nerve to talk negatively about anyone after his 'world championship reign of terror' is absolutely beyond me.

MTF

 

Stick hm in with Eubanks Jr. In fact, fuck it; stick him in with the old man himself. That'll learn him...

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he "headlined in Vegas" where the house was certainly mostly papered and deeply discounted. The hotels were offering free fight tickets and free rooms just to GET people to Vegas.

Khan is a non-entity here.

The fight was at Mandalay Bay and that holds what...12,000? Looked to me like the upper bowl was empty. The bigger vegas fights are at MGM.

 

This place is in full retard mode. Lose a fight and should retire. Khan has 3 loses and barely 30 fights. Guys in the 50, 60's fought way more often, most had over 100 fights and took way more punishment. Khan can comeback, there are still a lot of top 10 fighters he can beat or at the very worst give them a hard nights work. He looked damn good before the brutal left hook, which he done an incredible job to get up from, let alone compete in one of the rounds of the year the very next round.

The irony about this for me is i talked a bunch of casuals into watching the fight on Saturday and they loved the fight. I come on here and the hardcore fans have done nothing but criticize the fight and talk about how both guys suck. Saturday was a great fight and neither guy has gotten an ounce of credit for anything on here.

 

He is even less of an entity here. He was chased out of England years ago. Was he or was he not in the main event of a fight in Vegas on saturday night?

Your unyielding desire to be a pedantic misery guts has become very boring lately.

MTF