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

[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.