well KHAN sure knows how to RUN... Run Khan Run....that's what I learned tonight.

[Gandalf]

Why are people complaining about the point deduction? He elbowed the ref for fucks sake. He's lucky he didn't get slung out.

Had the blatant elbow split Khan's head open Maidana would have been DQ'd.

He would have got away with that with most of the more competent referees. From what I have been reading on the forums most think the deduction was flawed and I am in total agreement. A warning would have been enough. However, IF he had hit Khan in the face then for sure take away the point.

Having said that, as one of Khan's most vociferous critics, I too would like to come out openly and say that I too have been won over somewhat because of this fight. I have always said I want to see him in there with a puncher and he did that. It wasn't perfect, but he did take a lot of clean punches in there and that shot in the 10th might very well have been the end, but he stuck in there and wouldn't let himself go down. I wanted him to, but he didn't. Khan has heart. He might not have the chin, but he has the heart to stand up when the chin has been checked.

I cannot call myself a fan, but I give respect when I think it has been earned and Khan earned a lot in this fight. I will always criticise the Barrera fight and the pointless matchups like Salita, but this was better from Khan and when a fighter goes to the well and wins you have to give credit. At the same time though, I think Maidana caused most of the damage and for that he deserves a lot of credit too. Khan was the obvious favourite and yet Maidana showed that as crude slugger he could deal with that movement and speed fairly well. And he deserves his share of respect.

That's because there are a lot of stupid and uninformed Khan haters on the internet Miles. It was an intentional foul. Are you, the great moral guardian of integrity and fair conduct actually saying that a person should only be punished for an intentional misdeed if they successfully pull it off? Surely not!

What about a politician who gets caught when he falsely claims for a mortgage allowance on a property he has already cleared the mortgage on, or an angry student who hurls a fire exstinguisher from the top of a building at a police officer below but misses. Should they be let off because their intentional crimes were unsuccessful?

Oh the hypocrisy

lol,

If Khan had thrown the elbow miles would be outraged that Cortez hadn't chucked him out the fight. And would be ranting and raving about Khan being such a despicable human being.

He'd see it as a sign of his moral decline since moving to America and probably even mixing with zionists over there.

If Khan had done it my response would have been much the same. If it hadn't of made an impact on Maidana then how could you be outraged? No fighter should be penalised for slightly losing his cool the one time. Even Tyson was given a second chance to munch on an ear, this was hardly that.