Khan potential for greatness... or disaster

[Kev]

He will never ever be great, he's good fighter but he has too many flaws. And there's too many good fighters around him at the moment, i can't see him beating Timothy Bradley nor can i see him beating the top boys at Welterweight.

He will have an exciting career and will probably win, another world title in another weightclass at some point.

He showed good heart and better survival skills, but i've always thought he had heart and decent survival skills. Its just he got caught cold vs Breidis Prescott.

And to be honest he should of had an easier time vs Marcos Maidana, because he is very limited. But as i said before its a step in the right direction for Amir Khan. But his defense is still very leaky.

And he should stick to the gameplan of boxing, and not being macho and trying to trade, because that attitude will get him KO'ed.

He got hit far too much, i mean for all his speed. He's quite easy to tag which is suprising. Even Marcos Maidana's wide slow shots hit the target too many times.

But all in all its good to step him finally step up, lets hope thats a taster for things to come.

That's only an opinion though, and not backed up by any facts. Nobody has ever had an easy time with him. According to many he should have been undefeated coming to the fight with Khan.

He might be like Carl Froch, in the way that everyone has been saying for years 'Of course when he fights an elite fighter he will get picked apart and exposed the crude slugger he is.'. Well after fights against Pascal, Taylor, Dirrell, Kessler and Abraham nobody has had an easy night's work with him yet. I think Maidana may well be like that, you see his flaws and so presume the tops guys should have an easy nights work with him, but it may well not work out like that.

That's a great point. A lot of people get blinded by superlative skills, and forget that that is not the sum total of a successful boxer. Maidana is a prime example - he gets by with almost no skill to speak of. He fights with power and heart, a slow plodding style that should be a breeze to pick apart. Yet he gets in there and proves a tough night's work for the highest level of competition.

Boxing history is chock full of fighters who defied the assumption that skill always wins.

Exactly, when it came to boxing skills Amir DID handle him easily and was quickly piling up the points in the early rounds. But Maidana's heart, endurance, toughness and ability to absorb punishment are simply outstanding. He absolutely has a world class chin and toughness.

What I cannot understand from Ice though is that he is big on Lucian Bute despite first time around getting completely smashed in the last round by Librado Andrade, again a fight with practically zero fighting skills. He was completely wrecked in that last round and is so lucky not to have a ko loss on his record.
Andrade went something like 0-16 as an amatuer, he is all heart.

Unfortunately for Andrade I think he has now absorbed too much punishment in his career in bruising beatdowns against Bute and Kessler, and his toughness will be diminishing, in the same way as Edison Miranda's has been.

In subsequent fights I expect Miranda, Andrade and Maidanan to slip as their fighting styles do not lend themselves to long careers.

So Maidana may well get taken out early in future fights.

But lets not use that as an excuse to diminish his abilities now. He wrecked one boxing's hottest prospects in Victor Ortiz. Khan stood up to him.

Devon Alexander was almost ruined by Kotelnik, a fighter who Khan breezed past.

On the form guide now I think it's going to be a Bradley/Khan winner takes all fight, and I think Khan will surprise everyone by completely dominating that fight.

I think Khan stops Alexander and wins by at least 3 or 4 rounds against Bradley.