Why do people hate Amir Khan so much? (Ring article attached)

[Youngblood]

I don't hate Khan, but have have gone from looking forward to seeing him fight to looking forward to seeing him get knocked out. I think it has something to do with it being funny. Not even sure why.

[DatsiK]

Quite frankly all the Khan hate confuses me. I really don't see how people call him cocky... I don't know about off-camera, but on camera he's never showed a sign of cockyness to me and I've seen quite a few Khan interviews.

Saying he is fighting powderpuff fighters is also a pretty stupid reason. He is 22, he's still at an early age at his career... hell, Joe Calzaghe fought shitty opponents for the better part of 10 years, I don't see anyone seeing him want to get KTFO? In fact the reality is almost every fighters first 20 or so fights will be a steady building process, gradually increasing the opposition, which in truth he has...

His last 6 fights have been against a..

• A previous world title challenger (correct me if i'm wrong) - Graham Earl
• A ex world champion (again, correct me if i'm wrong) - Gairy St.Clair
• A top 10 lightweight in the WBA rankings - Martin Kristjansen
• A ex WBU champion with decent power, past his best a bit maybe... - Michael Gomez
• A dangerous columbian banger with a almost perfect KO percentage, this one didn't turn out so well of course.. - Breidis Prescott
• And of course Oisin Fagan.... not much to say about him.

Which when you look at it isnt THAT bad. Every boxers first 20 or so fights will be padded slightly, why can't people seem to realise that?

When it all comes down to it I think one thing above all fuels the hate for him, especially in England - his race. Which I think is pretty sad, the boy is british either way. I couldn't care if he was knocked out 10 times in a row, if the boy was british I would be behind him 100% of the way. I'm backing him to beat Barrera and I hope he does, I think it's pretty low when people are running around saying they hope Barrera knocks him out brutally... especially if their british.

[eagle]

Quite frankly all the Khan hate confuses me. I really don't see how people call him cocky... I don't know about off-camera, but on camera he's never showed a sign of cockyness to me and I've seen quite a few Khan interviews.

Saying he is fighting powderpuff fighters is also a pretty stupid reason. He is 22, he's still at an early age at his career... hell, Joe Calzaghe fought shitty opponents for the better part of 10 years, I don't see anyone seeing him want to get KTFO? In fact the reality is almost every fighters first 20 or so fights will be a steady building process, gradually increasing the opposition, which in truth he has...

His last 6 fights have been against a..

• A previous world title challenger (correct me if i'm wrong) - Graham Earl
• A ex world champion (again, correct me if i'm wrong) - Gairy St.Clair
• A top 10 lightweight in the WBA rankings - Martin Kristjansen
• A ex WBU champion with decent power, past his best a bit maybe... - Michael Gomez
• A dangerous columbian banger with a almost perfect KO percentage, this one didn't turn out so well of course.. - Breidis Prescott
• And of course Oisin Fagan.... not much to say about him.

Which when you look at it isnt THAT bad. Every boxers first 20 or so fights will be padded slightly, why can't people seem to realise that?

When it all comes down to it I think one thing above all fuels the hate for him, especially in England - his race. Which I think is pretty sad, the boy is british either way. I couldn't care if he was knocked out 10 times in a row, if the boy was british I would be behind him 100% of the way. I'm backing him to beat Barrera and I hope he does, I think it's pretty low when people are running around saying they hope Barrera knocks him out brutally... especially if their british.

Guys like Mayweather, Tszyu, Cotto and ODLH had been in with real champs, and won world titles at the same stage of their career as Khan is at, yet none except maybe Oscar got the hype and especially the money Khan is getting....

[Fenster]

Quite frankly all the Khan hate confuses me. I really don't see how people call him cocky... I don't know about off-camera, but on camera he's never showed a sign of cockyness to me and I've seen quite a few Khan interviews.

Saying he is fighting powderpuff fighters is also a pretty stupid reason. He is 22, he's still at an early age at his career... hell, Joe Calzaghe fought shitty opponents for the better part of 10 years, I don't see anyone seeing him want to get KTFO? In fact the reality is almost every fighters first 20 or so fights will be a steady building process, gradually increasing the opposition, which in truth he has...

His last 6 fights have been against a..

• A previous world title challenger (correct me if i'm wrong) - Graham Earl
• A ex world champion (again, correct me if i'm wrong) - Gairy St.Clair
• A top 10 lightweight in the WBA rankings - Martin Kristjansen
• A ex WBU champion with decent power, past his best a bit maybe... - Michael Gomez
• A dangerous columbian banger with a almost perfect KO percentage, this one didn't turn out so well of course.. - Breidis Prescott
• And of course Oisin Fagan.... not much to say about him.

Which when you look at it isnt THAT bad. Every boxers first 20 or so fights will be padded slightly, why can't people seem to realise that?

When it all comes down to it I think one thing above all fuels the hate for him, especially in England - his race. Which I think is pretty sad, the boy is british either way. I couldn't care if he was knocked out 10 times in a row, if the boy was british I would be behind him 100% of the way. I'm backing him to beat Barrera and I hope he does, I think it's pretty low when people are running around saying they hope Barrera knocks him out brutally... especially if their british.

Joe Calzaghe beat Chris Eubank for the WBO title after 4 years. He won the British title after 2 years.

Khan is in his 4th year as a pro. He's yet to challenge for the British title let alone a "world" title. He STILL hasn't proved himslef to be the best lightweight in Britain. Unbeaten John Murray is the Brit champ and Jon Thaxton is European champ.

Khan was purposely matched with powderpuff punchers because it looked likely (probably from the time Craig Watson turned him into a drunk) he was a bit chinny. It then became blatantly obvious his punch resistance was shockingly poor when non-punchers were hurting/decking him.

None of these things justify someone being a PPV fighter. That alone is enough to turn many neutrals against him.

[Drago]

cos he gets too much media coverage & is a greedy bstard

[No Contest]

He's not humble at all, when he first came out, he was like I'm the best blah blah, kind of trying to be Naz or something. Maybe he can stfu now he got knocked out.

[SigmaMu]

Although I made a video of him getting knocked the phuk out I don't hate the kid.

[Kirkland Laing]

Fenster is right here. It's the chin thing that annoys everybody*. It's obvious he can't take a punch from somebody his own weight so when he gets fed past-it super-feathers and nonpunching lightweights and he's still talking about world titles it gets on everybody's nerves. I don't dislike him but I really don't want to see him beat Barrera.



*or at least everybody on here, coupled with the world title talk.

[GAME]

Quite frankly all the Khan hate confuses me. I really don't see how people call him cocky... I don't know about off-camera, but on camera he's never showed a sign of cockyness to me and I've seen quite a few Khan interviews.

Saying he is fighting powderpuff fighters is also a pretty stupid reason. He is 22, he's still at an early age at his career... hell, Joe Calzaghe fought shitty opponents for the better part of 10 years, I don't see anyone seeing him want to get KTFO? In fact the reality is almost every fighters first 20 or so fights will be a steady building process, gradually increasing the opposition, which in truth he has...

His last 6 fights have been against a..

• A previous world title challenger (correct me if i'm wrong) - Graham Earl
• A ex world champion (again, correct me if i'm wrong) - Gairy St.Clair
• A top 10 lightweight in the WBA rankings - Martin Kristjansen
• A ex WBU champion with decent power, past his best a bit maybe... - Michael Gomez
• A dangerous columbian banger with a almost perfect KO percentage, this one didn't turn out so well of course.. - Breidis Prescott
• And of course Oisin Fagan.... not much to say about him.

Which when you look at it isnt THAT bad. Every boxers first 20 or so fights will be padded slightly, why can't people seem to realise that?

When it all comes down to it I think one thing above all fuels the hate for him, especially in England - his race. Which I think is pretty sad, the boy is british either way. I couldn't care if he was knocked out 10 times in a row, if the boy was british I would be behind him 100% of the way. I'm backing him to beat Barrera and I hope he does, I think it's pretty low when people are running around saying they hope Barrera knocks him out brutally... especially if their british.

Why should we support Khan just on that basis. We wouldnt be true boxing fans then if we supported fighters just because they are British .

Im backing Barrera over Khan because I much prefer him as a fighter. Nationality should never come into it. Its all about preference

I agree that if you dont really know either guy then you usually back the home fighter but at this level picking favourites isnt dicated by what Country they are from .

[ono]

I got flamed for this last time but race and religion come into it somewhere.

Not saying anybody on the board dislikes him because of this - i would presume if you're on this board you have enough boxing reasons to dislike someone.

The reason i bring race and religion into it is because thats invariably the first thing that a great deal of people in my area seem mention when a Khan fight is being screened at a venue in my area. It's actually quite sickening. Maybe these people don't know anything about him so they look at the most obvious thing. Maybe Leeds is a very racist area - although i don't see why it would be any worse than anywhere else.

Anyway hopefully that's just a small minority. It's not something i particularly want to debate again as a lot will find it ridiculous, but it's the truth of what i've experienced when there has been a Khan fight shown in town. It's a very different atmosphere from a Hatton or a Clazaghe fight.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I don't like Khan and I've not given Calzaghe an easy time either. It's not because I hate on the darker skin tones or the Welsh pretending to be Italian.

But let's deal with the race issue since it seems to be what a number of people are focused on and keep bringing up.

Anyone?

[Fenster]

I've honestly never heard anyone say they dislike Khan because of his Pakistani roots.

Maybe things are different in London?

Or maybe i don't know any racists.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I've honestly never heard anyone say they dislike Khan because of his Pakistani roots.

Maybe things are different in London?

Or maybe i don't know any racists.

I went to a Khan fight to offer some local support, not to Khan. They segregated the fans as they came in, an annoucement came over the speaker system about no racist chants etc not being tolerated and there was a big police pressence.

Annoyed the hell out of me. Especially when a group of lads, all asian, all sporting Khan tracksuits were sat in the opposing area. As the evening went on them were surrounded by police to protect them. They sat about grinning over the shoulders of the police as a few people were escourted out. The whole event had an air of wtf about it.

Nothing against them or Khan but, by forcing the fans to segregate and making an issue about Khans colour it draws attention to something that wasn't a problem until other people made it so. I've never been segregated like that in my life.

I don't like Warren and his overprotection of fighters. It harms the fighter and the quality of the sport in general and I don't like bangwaggons, so called fans who just sign up to a sole fighter based on whatever link they think they have with them.

Those who support Khan because of his ethnicity annoy me just as much as those who don't support him because of his ethnicity.

Which is pretty much the feeling I have toward pacfans in general. Hell at least they have a fighter that's done something to shout about.

[ono]

I don't like Khan and I've not given Calzaghe an easy time either. It's not because I hate on the darker skin tones or the Welsh pretending to be Italian.

But let's deal with the race issue since it seems to be what a number of people are focused on and keep bringing up.

Anyone?

I don't think we can deal with it since i doubt anybody on here dislikes him because of this.

I think we can accept that we are in a day where tabloid newspapers like to run stories about how 'our country' is no longer 'our country' and idiots tend to believe it.

It's obviously a sensitive issue to talk about and i only brought it up because what i experienced when i watched the fight in town, wasn't pleasant.

[Howlin Mad Missy]

I don't like Khan and I've not given Calzaghe an easy time either. It's not because I hate on the darker skin tones or the Welsh pretending to be Italian.

But let's deal with the race issue since it seems to be what a number of people are focused on and keep bringing up.

Anyone?

I don't think we can deal with it since i doubt anybody on here dislikes him because of this.

I think we can accept that we are in a day where tabloid newspapers like to run stories about how 'our country' is no longer 'our country' and idiots tend to believe it.

It's obviously a sensitive issue to talk about and i only brought it up because what i experienced when i watched the fight in town, wasn't pleasant.

no problem I do understand your concern I don't think most true fans think that way but you'll always get nutters.