Quote Originally Posted by feeney View Post
heres a prospect for you bilbo hes a couple of years older than kahn has won domestic titles is undefeated with a very impressive resume win over an emerging superstar, And to add sugar to the win this emerging superstar that he knocked out in a round just beat a legend. His name is breidis prescott, 21-0 18ko's. This man lived above a shop had no access to the training and equipment kahn had but still took his chance and blew kahn away. Im am not a kahn hater hes brilliantly fast, good boxer, I dont feel he deserves the hype, As i said before a good promoter can take you along way and make people think your a superstar, make you appear to be one, But he isnt. If someone mentions kahns age again ill scream if hes that great age shouldnt matter, Tyson,naz,barrera, All won world titles at a young age and didnt carry olympic silver medals with them.
Presscot is 3 years and 7 months older than Amir Khan.

Let's go back and look at where Breidas was 3 years 7 months ago.

Well a quick look at boxrec shows that at the same as Khan is now Prescott was just coming off a big win by 5th round TKO over the much heralded 30-19 Jorge Luis Noriega Medrano (currently 31-21)

Prior to that he had got impressive wins over the following fighters.

Oscar Pineda 0-4
Alberto Martinez 0-2
Carlos Caudrado 0-4
Wilson Torres 0-3
Jason Palomeque 4-1 (now 11-3-1)
Caudrado again now 0-5
J Ceaser Perez 0-2
William Barros 0-5

So his of his first 8 opponents only 1 had ever won a professional fight

They boasted a stellar record of 4-25-1

Now at the same age Amir has won an Olympic Silver Medal, he's beaten two former world champs including one of the p4p best fighters of the last 10 years. He's won the Commonwealth title, destroyed in a round the former world title challenger Graham Earl and beaten former British champ Michael Gomez.

Now you can pick apart every one of those fights if you want but you cannot possibly get around the fact that by age 22 Amir has achieved leaps and bounds above what Breidas Prescott did by the same age.

THAT'S why he gets all the media attention, that's why stars like Barrera want to fight him, because the boxing world recognise he a stunning talent, exciting to watch and can sell tickets.

Prescott gave his own career a massive shot in the arm with his one round destruction of Khan and will now be guided towards a hopeful title shot, but even with the win he still hasn't acomplished as much as Khan has now already, at age 22 and so Khan deserves any future opportunities that come his way.