Quote Originally Posted by GAME View Post
Phil is a poor opponent but if we are calling him a journey man then we should call Khan one aswel. After all he has more losses on his resume than Phil has. Phils losses came to guys like Spence, Porter & Elegele and Khans has losses to guys like Peterson, Garcia, Alvarez and Prescott. There’s not much in it in terms of their losses and the level of opponent. However in the W column Khan has a lot more names of note than Phil does. Those wins of Khans were many years ago now so Greco is actually a representation of where Khan is truly at in his career these days.

Virgil Hunter reckons it’s a tough fight which tells you what he really thinks of Khan. Khan most likely thinks if he avoids punchers from now on he can get to the Brook fight unscathed but Peterson wasn’t a puncher and he beat Khan with pressure and thats how Greco fights. Algerie wasn’t puncher but he pressured Khan for 12 rounds aswel and that was back when Khan was an active fighter. It may just be that this is Khans level now rather than a huge step down which is how it was seen when the fight was announced. I don’t think we will ever see him in world class opposition again such as Spence, Porter etc. The best he will fight is Brook whos coming off back to back KO defeats and been years since he beat the only world class fighter on his resume.
I pressed like for this post, and agree with almost everything about it. But if you're gonna name Porter as World class opposition, then Brook has to be. Yes , it was a long time ago that Brook beat him, but since then , arguably the only "W" against world class opposition on Porter's record is Broner. Now I believe that Broner was a top,top LW, a World class LWW, but at WW, he is too small and was always gonna get bullied against Porter.
Porter has been very competitive in other losing fights against top guys and all credit to him. But so has Brook.
Admittedly Brook has it all to prove at a new weight, but I'm just saying that he deserves at least to be in the same breath as Porter, surely.