Quote Originally Posted by ono View Post
Quote Originally Posted by generalbulldog View Post
He'll have an Junior Jones type of career. Decent but not great career. He'll bamboozle the British public into believing he is special by fighting another past his prime legend that's moving up in weight and win it comfortably.

The British announcers and public will go crazy with something like this, "He is easily beating JMM which Pacquiao and Mayweather have fought, but he is having a much better time than Pacman he is going to be an all time great! Better than him for sure. When you beat a legend you become a legend! The boy is turning into a man! And he's only 23! No other 23 year old has had such a career!"
It's only bamboozling general sports fans into believing he is special. Proper boxing fans are in a better position to judge a fighter's career and resume.

The Marquez fight will be a defining fight just like Tszyu was Hatton's. Most prospects fight a former world class operator at a time which is deemed as the 'right time'. If you've got something against Khan for doing it, then you're not going to like many other prospects.

As you pointed out yesterday, other fighters have had similar or better resumes at 23. Unfortunately all the fighters you listed were probably shoe ins for the Hall of Fame. Then you went on to say Khan is a Hype job....which he may be.

So i don't get it. If you think he's a hype job why are you using future hall of famers as a yardstick to measure Khan's ability and resume against?

Surely you should be comparing him to other hype jobs such as Bojado.
Why am I using other great's resume? I already explained this in the other thread. It's because guys like you and Bilbo (wondered what happened to him) keep on bring up "He's only 23, give him time!" Well at the same age a lot of 23 year old boxing greats who just like Khan were once boxing prodigies/prospects and they dazzled and accomplished more than Khan. How did those guys accomplished so much? They took on dangerous guys to build their names and resume. So stop with the "He's only 23, give him time" excuse.

The guy is now an world champion, time to take on a Bradley, Maidana, Alexander, and not a past his prime fading legend.

Why did Roach want Khan to fight Erik Morales at 140 a few weeks back? Roach mentioned this. We all know the answer don't we?