AMIR KHAN WANTS A SHOT AT NATE CAMPBELL!

::

Yep, to be honest Khan seems alright, I don't hate him, but he's certainly not the Brightest spark is he. I've seen more intelligent bags of watercress.

McKenzie is just as thick, I mean utterly, utterly retarded, I'm not even sure he'd be capable of counting to 10.

How he has a spot on TV bemuses me. He's awful.

I quite like Woodhall, and SOMETIMES Jim Watt and McGuigan can be OK. Darke, McCrory and the rest of them are truly terrible.

 

The main problem is that casual boxing fans in the UK tend to believe every single piece of crap spoon fed to them courtesy of Sports Network and ITV. When people are told that Amir Khan is an unstoppable machine, the vast majority watch him smacking another tomato can around and believe the hype. Each and every time.

Take last weekend, for example. I cleaned up amongst my friends after each and every single one of them picked Enzo to beat Haye. I tried to reason with them and explain that Haye was just better and that Werren always protects his fighters, but none would have it. I showed them clips of him beating Mormeck, and none were moved. Simply because they has seen loads of Enzo beating the shit out of bums/has beens. Two guys bet me WITHOUT HAVING EVER SEEN HAYE FIGHT!!! :laughing:

The looks on their faces when Mac hit the deck were something to behold. Funnily enough, I don't think they'll be buying the hype again.

From a more objective standpoint, it's embarrassing to watch ITV bum fucking Werren every time he 'graces' that station with one of his fights. The laugh, of course, is that any half decent fight he puts on (Calz-Kessler, Mac-Haye) gets shifted to Setanta anyway, so they are being completely used to build up his fighters before they move onto to bigger and better paydays.

Fools :: :doh:

 

He's the worst boxing presented in TV history. Not a single word out of his mouth is credible.

My favourite 'Rosenthal-ism' was when Kindelan let Amir beat him in that last amateur fight before he turned pro and Jim pronounced:

"Well, that's it for Khan. He's got nothing left to prove at Amateur, and now he's off to win a professional world title".

:laughing: Nothing left to prove? Oh yeah, that's because he won all those gold medals in every championship he entered, didn't he? And Kindelan wasn't about to come and work for the ABA on a lucrative contract right after the fight, was he?

I started disliking Amir (though it might not be all his fault, I admit), right there and then. It's like watching Prince Naseem all over again...

 

Yep, McCrory is such a smug and inane tub of guts, he's got a face you want to punch, I enjoy re-watching Lennox putting his lights out every now and again

Woodhall is usually straight to the point and pretty accurate in his analysis

 

I remember having a long thread discussion with Dubblechin about that Kindelan rematch. I thought, even at the time before his subsequent ABA contract, that it was a work. I don't really see the Naseem comparisons though, he's a lot more orthodox and he's gormless in comparison.

 

I think it amounts to him being:

1. Of Muslim origin.
2. Being hugely over-hyped.
3. Being hugely protected.
4. Being chinny.
5. Being a 'bully'- namely that he can bang bums/has-beens out in flashy, confident style but IMO huge doubts exist about his ability to do this when stepping up in class. When he finally does so, that is.
6. Being cocky as fuck. The difference is that Naz was very articulate and often creative in his crack, whilst Amir just bumbles on, BUT that shouldn't hide his cocky demeanour. I mean, consider this thread- he's telling Nate Campbell that he'll kick his ass ::

I agree that he is more orthodox in style, though he keeps his left hand low to generate angles, leverage and power in his shots, which is hardly out of the training manual for a chinny fighter.

And if that Kindelan 'defeat' wasn't part of the ABA contract, I'll eat my trilby...:nono:

 

i would give khan a chance, i mean anyone is a chance V campbell (suddenly everyones fav) , i mean he can be unfocused and erratic and dont forget he did lose ko to peden twice

 

Add Steve Bunce too...

 

Like most fighters, even the most knowledgeable posters have their weaknesses. In mIKE's case it appears to be an inability to recognize prospect building through tomatocanism.

 

I've been guilty of this, but it is possible dismiss excellent prospects because of their opponents' tomatocanism, too. And until I change my mind, I'm saying this is the case with the naysayers of Khan. : )