Still question marks over khans chin????

[Kev]

Well yes and no. It's hardly a question mark, I mean we know his chin ain't great. He showed he could hang with a puncher though and has the heart to survive, but you definitely wouldn't bank on him to make it through every time.

That fight massively enhanced his reputation for toughness though. Most people thought he would win by staying behind his jab and not getting hit. But that's not how it went down. He got tagged over and over and despite looking like about a gazelle in a river with a crocodile towards the end of the fight he managed to somehow hang in there.

It was like watching Frank Bruno's win over Oliver McCall, I was just willing him to stand up.

He has world class skills, I honestly think he outboxes every fighter in the world apart from Floyd, and even Floyd struggles, but he's too defensively vulnerable and would get picked apart by the best boxer punchers in the sport.

I could see him fighting Floyd and amazing everyone by being ahead on the scorecards after 8 rounds or so. I just can't see him standing up until the end.

I love his heart though, the kid gives absolutely everything, and he's British so we us Brits should get 100 percent behind him.

[Gandalf]

Khan does have skills, his handspeed is great and he puts his combinations together well, but that chin is the big achilles heel. But perhaps it isn't quite as bad as what Prescott made us think. Fair play to him though, he did take a lot of hard flush shots, but I think had Cortez not kept jumping in and had Maidana given himself a little room, then Khan would have been out of there. He saw it through and even cynical old me has to give him credit for hanging in there. He really was all over the place though.

[Cressa121]

He's always going to be vulnerable. I don't ever see him getting starched like he did against Prescott again, but I do expect him to get KO'd again at some point. He took some good shots from Maidana before he got badly hurt, and then he showed great heart and determination to stay on his feet. Maidana was too sloppy and seemed too tired to be able to land another killer shot when he had him hurt. What would be a concern for me is that he spent best part of the next 2 rounds in survival mode after getting hurt, it didn't show great ability to recover from the big shots.

He's clearly got the ability to hang with any boxer in the world, but he'll always be susceptible to a knockout. His defence is still shaky, he's not the hardest fighter to hit, and I do see him coming unstuck against the Bradley/Alexander winner. He's just fought the hardest puncher at his weight class and came through it with the win, so he deserves huge credit for seeing it through