Khan leaves Warren, signs for GBP and gives up world title

This news hasn't hit the press yet, but it will be in tomorrow's Independent on Sunday. Khan's done a Hatton/Calzaghe, but a lot sooner. Expect him to be based full time in the States.

 

great news!

Americans will support him unlike the stupid ass brits who loooooved hump him dry hatton

:hammert:

 

The news also paves the way for a potential Hatton clash later in the year, as The Hitman wasn't willing to do business with Warren.

 

Hatton has been part of some of the biggest fights of the last 5 years, winning titles against legends like Kostya Tszyu. He unified at 140 and won a title at 147. He was the best 140lb fighter for 7 or 8 years in England.

Khan, on the other hand.....lost to Breidis Prescott, and was floored by a semi-retired Johnny Coyle-esque fighter called Gomez.

 

thanks for that great explanation...I don't know what i'd do without your astute commentary.

 

I think his point is that Khan sucks, and he's right.

 

You would sit there in eternal ignorance, as you have been doing up to now.

Thank Jesus that I have been sent to guide and educate you, and help you negotiate the mounds of camel filth which have hitherto spoiled your way.

Amen.

 

He is like a prime Mike Tyson, in that people forgot how good he was.

Freddie Roaches comment that "For a world champion, Hatton was not that good"...is pure ignorance.

He beat Kostya Tszyu and retired him in 11 rounds of pure high-octane pressure.

Of course, over time, the Yanks have made his performance out to be some sort of foul-filled clinchfest, when it was nothing of the sort.

As for Khan......it doesnt surprise me he dumped Warren, and thats saying as much about Khan as it is about Warren.

 

If this is true, great news. Khan is going to smash Hatton up, and he is far more talented.

 

I'd imagine that Khan will be Ring's #140 pounder come next month.

 

He is #2 in that division currently. No question.

 

Dont be stupid. There is no way he cracks the top 150, never mind the top 140.....

 

:atu:

Come on.

 

Bradley #1

Khan #2

No question

 

:kick:140 pound division sucks at the moment not many big names, but guys like Urango, Malignaggi, Holt deserve to be rank ahead of Khan. What has he done to be rank #2? Beat Kotelnik and Dmitry Salita..:doh:. The guys i mention don't always win but they have been at 140 for much longer and have face better competition in the division...

 

You're right. He definitely didn't throw an intentional uppercut to the balls that would have gotten most fighters DQ'd.

 

Hatton beat Tszyu fair and square, but it was also pretty clear that it was a foul-filled clinch fest, only overshadowed in significance because John Ruiz was still active.

 

I'm not questioning the win. Only the implication Hatton was some paragon of virtue in it. It was a pretty dirty fight where Hatton got away with alot.

 

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/...lden-boy-and-give-up-world-title-1870328.html

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I understand the WBA light-welterweight champion has decided he wants to live and fight in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">United States</st1lace></st1:country-region> after a 23-bout career skilfully masterminded by the British promoter Frank Warren, who took him from Olympic silver-medallist to world champion. His defection will be a cruel blow to Warren, who also lost Ricky Hatton, Joe Calzaghe and Naseem Hamed after they became world champions. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">
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<st1:city w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Warren</st1lace></st1:city> said last night: "No one has been in touch with me about this and if this is the case I am bitterly disappointed because I delivered everything I said I would with Amir."

There was no official comment from the Khan camp but a source close to the 23-year-old <st1lace w:st="on">Bolton</st1lace> fighter says: "Amir has a lot of respect for Frank and appreciates what he did but it is time to move on. <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">America</st1lace></st1:country-region> is the place to be for the next phase in his career, and obviously to get fights there he needs to work with an American promoter."

Khan, who has an apartment in Los Angeles and trains alongside Manny Pacquiao with Freddie Roach, is due to make a second defence of his world title against the fierce-hitting Argentinian Marcos Maidana, another Golden Boy fighter, but there is speculation that Roach wants Khan to relinquish the title rather than face an opponent who has KO'd all but one of his 27 opponents.

I'm told Roach considers Maidana too big a risk and instead Khan is likely to fight the lighter-punching Paulie Malignaggi – a Hatton victim – in the spring. The scenario is that Khan would then meet Hatton, who has officially announced his comeback, in a big-money blockbuster in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Manchester</st1lace></st1:city> jointly promoted by Golden Boy and Hatton himself. Malignaggi would be an easy fight, as would Hatton. But it's a shame that the promoter who helped make his American dream possible is being frozen out of his future.

 

It was a great win, but there's no question Hatton fought VERY dirty.

Tszyu is loved by Americans now? ::

 

I always hated Zoo and not because he couldn't fight, or his attitude which were both top notch. I hated him because he was so ugly which is weird for me because I usually don't take that into account but Zoo was so hideous it made me hate him. Pretty weird I know :dunno:

 

I think Tszyu threw the first low blow. Hatton gets remembered for flooring him with one a round later.

As for dirty....try Cotto vs Judah and Trinidad vs Vargas.

 

Khan signs with Golden Boy, Golden Boy owns Ring Magazine...that's what he's referring to.

 

Tszyu loved by Americans. ::

People tend to forget when he fought Ben Tackie in Vegas the same night as Gatti-Ward I...the paid attendance was 500.

::

MAJOR ticket seller here.

As far as Hatton's win over Tszyu...Tyszu had fought infrequently over the previous years and had numerous injuries...damn near one per year. Take Tszyu from five years prior...better yet the one who cold cocked Judah...Hatton gets his ass whupped.

 

It was a disgraceful act,.. he took a run up before smashing him in the balls as hard as he could,.. I would have loved to have seen an instant disqualification for something like that. As for how Tszyu would have faired in his 'prime' ,..I look at his first fight with Sharmba Mitchell,.. the fact that Tszyu doesn't give ground, leaves him vulnerable to any Hopkinsesque tactics of entanglement where you have no idea whats going on amongst all the sludge, and award it to the brilliant masterful ring-legend based on his 'ring generalship' even though it's hard exactly to define what that means but American scribes pop it up in thier notes so, he's got the reputation and, therefore he's gots ta be dey one.

 

This actually made me laugh out loud, simply because it's a perfectly accurate description of what happened.

MTF :laughing:

 

I'm not particularly surprised by the news of Khan's 'defection'. Amir pretty much hates life in the UK and has been looking to get out for some time. It's also a good thing for his career, as hanging around with Werren is an ideal way to fight nobody of note for years on end.

MTF