Letter from Amir to his fans, and Oliver Harrison's View

[Boxingmad]

I think from all of this we can see that there is a lot of work for Amir to do definately. If what Oliver Harrison was saying about Khan being pulled from the gym to do interviews & open boxing clubs etc, then obviously he as got to stop all that and knuckle down and get on with the job of learning his craft.
I'm still of the opinion that he was hyped up too much on Saturday and rushed out there like the young lad he is, full of beans etc, and paid the inevitable price. He wanted to make his mark very early on and was caught flush on the chin. But he is a professional boxer as well, and should have known not to leg it out there and steam in. Still, one sometimes has to learn the hard way!
Maybe a nasty KO loss will jolt him and bring him back down to earth. He will hopefully realise that he is like everyone else and can be beaten, and now the message will hit home that he does have to work at it, really work at it in order to achieve his aim of becoming world champion. Enough of the fast, jazzy, big-time TV/PPV route to the top. He should take on the likes of John Thaxton, John Murray etc. who have proved their mettle and won domestic titles the proper way by taking the time to learn the craft of professional boxing -Thaxton in particular is a good example of that.
All is not lost. Amir can come back, but whether he is damaged by this loss remains to be seen. However, his family should let allegedly & Sports Network get on with sorting Amir Khan's boxing career out. We have seen what can happen when they interfere too much. Manager, trainer & fighter. That should be the team, not cheerleader, towel-carrier, yes man & errand boy. That's crazy.
It's difficult to say whether Rubio is the right man for the job of trainer. He didn't exactly get the chance to prove his worth at the weekend! If I had to choose a trainer, I'd say Jim Evans. Old school, no-nonsense and actually loves his fighters. Checks their weight, goes out with them on their runs, and just keeps a very close, stern eye on them. Khan would have to move down south but that would be a good move (away from distractions etc).

The next few weeks will be every interesting!

[Chambers2]

For those who haven't seen it ...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/7605059.stm

Thats a Full Boar 100% Amir Khan charm offensive!!! It's what he has to do, but he was laying it on abit thick in parts. Here are my highlights

and I quote

"I was fighting the biggest puncher in the Whole Lightweight division in the World" - Katsidis and Romanov (to name a few) might dispute that

"People were telling me don't fight Prescott, because you're both on your ways to world title fights" - Amir by your own admissions, you'd only seen 1 fight of him in which he'd underperformed and 'had a bad night', so how did your advisors come to the conclusion that Prescott was on his way to a world title fight?

"It was because e caught me cold in the first round, if it would have happened in the 5th or 6th I'd have been OK" - that sounds like abit of Enzo Calzaghe logic to me, if Enzo Vs Haye went 12 rounds Haye would have been obliterated
"50 seconds in a fight is so short, it could have been me knocking him out"

"This guy was a Great fighter" - Amir, you've only seen 1 fight of him (well you've now seen 1 fight and 51 seconds of him) in which he underperformed and although he looked pretty good in the other 51 seconds, basing the fact that he is a 'Great fighter' because he knocked you out is quite egotistical IMO

Give him a break, what's he meant to say "yeah I got knocked out, I'm rubbish and I'm going to call it a day"

I hope he does come back stronger and agree with some of what he's saying but it isn't going to be easy for him. He needs to take a couple of easy ones to get his confidence back then push on against a Murray or a Thaxton.

Defensively he needs major work and his chin is suspect but Haye's chin is suspect and he went on to rule his division.

What he doesn't need is 15+ fights of the same type of opponents he's fought in his career so far because that prepares him for nothing and serves only to make Warren rich. He needs to fight genuine lightweights who will give him a test and can bang a bit (but not too much).

I say Good luck Amir.

I wish Amir all the luck in the world and I even said that he had to come out with this charm offensive, but I just found it hard to listen to some of the inaccuracies he was feeding to the casual fans, without commenting on it. I've got nothing against Amir and want him to do well, although having to fork out for the PPV irked me

[Rocky Balboa]

Big respect to Oliver Harrison. Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy or upset about Khan losing (I'm not fussed either way) but you treat people with disrespect & it has a funny way of coming back to haunt you!

You can only go by the results, which are under Harrison, Khan never lost & progressed. Ok, so Khan has only had one fight under his new trainer, but he lost that fight & he didn't just lose, he got steamrolled!

I personally do not think Khan's new trainer is an amateur (that's a bit of an exaggeration by Oliver there) but improvements need to be made. Khan never had movement last saturday at all. He tried to be macho & punch it out with Prescott expecting to gain the upper hand. When that didn't happen, he was bang in trouble.

I like Oliver Harrison & it might be a bit of harsh to say, but Khan losing, in a way, is justice for the way Harrison appeared to be treated.

[johnswan1]

I would like to see Amir get straight back into training, work hard and then come back against a lighter hitting opponent and get knocked out again in the first round, and even more brutally than before. Too arrogant. I read about a year ago that he said he'd beat Mayweather in a four round fight yet couldn't even last a minute against an unknown from Colombia.

[Wales]

he said he'd beat mayweather in an amateur contest about 3 or 4 years ago

[Rocky Balboa]

he said he'd beat mayweather in an amateur contest about 3 or 4 years ago

Yeah, I remember seeing a comment in Boxing News about that. Khan said something like, if he were to box Floyd over three or four rounds he felt he would have the upper hand.

Oh, that reminds me, has anyone seen the film "One flew over the Cukoo's nest?" Khan is more crazy than that!