Quote Originally Posted by feeney View Post
This is my las post iv created a monster thread and i must kill it. My points have already came up but bilbo how can you say kahn performed excellently on one hand and the other say barrera was blind by the cut? hypocritical dont you think? Of course a young fast superstar can perform excellently against a blind man. Ok its not kahns fault it went down that way but he should not be happy with that fight, Neither should anyone else, He beat a blind man. Any credit he tries to take from this fight is rubbish. And i think if you really sit and think about it you can SEE (like what i did there) that there is only really one conclusion to kahn coming of age. Not yet.
Just because he was cut doesn't mean Khan can automatically pitch a 5 round shutout of him.

Vitali did ok with that cut against Lennox, Sergio Mora coped against Manfredo, Manny was still competitive against Morales, Fernando Vargas fought a war with Mosely with only one eye, Danny Williams had only one arm but still beat Mark Potter.

You're argument makes no sense, yes Barrera was cut, yes it was a bad cut but fighters do get cut and they still manage to make a fight of it.

Ray Robinson got cut badly against Randy Turpin and managed to knock him out, Paul Williams was cut against Verno Phillips and still won.

Just because Barrera was cut doesn't automatically mean a talented, overhyped, mediocre fighter like Khan is alleged to be can dominate him at will.

There are HUNDREDS of examples in boxing where a fighter is cut, vision impaired or otherwise horrible injured in some way and gone on not only to be competitive but to WIN.

Are you trying to tell me that Marco suffered some kind of unique cut, the worst cut in the history of boxing and so it was just impossible for him to fight back?

So I stand by what I have said. Yes it was an unfortunate cut, yes it hampered Barrera no doubt and YES Khan still boxed brilliantly and controlled the action from round 1.

Knowing time was short Barrera presumably wanted to try and mix things and get to Khan but his speed and utilisation of his height and reach advantage stopped that.

Listen to what Barrera's own promoter had to say about it

BBC SPORT | Boxing | Promoter King salutes 'fantastic' Khan


You can be upset about the cut and I agree with you, but all the abuse directed at Khan for just doing his job and doing his job extremely well is uncalled for.

I'm not the one acting unreasonably here, I'm just saying that Khan deserves credit. He won the fight, it was scored on a round by round basis and Khan won every round. The cut was unfortunate but these things happen in boxing and many times the guy with the cut has still managed to win.