burjennio » Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:28 am wrote:So Amir Khan proves yet again that you can have all the natural physical gifts in the world in a boxing ring but if you dont have a brain you end up getting KOed. How after all this time he fails to understand basic defensive concepts is beyond me. He leads with his face and believes his speed can get him out of any situation, and time and again he gets proved wrong yet still does nothing to rectify it. Gomez, Maidana, Prescott, Peterson and now Garcia all tagged him, and hurt him to varying degrees so questions have to be asked how his all star trainer Freddie Roach hasnt done more to address this glaring deficiency.
at the end of the day khan is fighting other good fighters, he`s not going in with tomato cans so sooner or later he`s going to get tagged and if you havent got a decent beard your going to go down.
you cant grow muscles on your chin, you can either take a shot or you cant and unfortunately for someone who is mixing in good company his punch resistance isnt great.
he`s obviously got a hell of a lot of ability (because of the collapse of the old soviet union to even qualify for the olympics these days you`ve got to be good never mind win a silver medal) but his chin is his achilles heel, he`s not the first and he wont be the last, errol christie was the same.