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Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 10:06 Sorry mate, I forgot you and Brook are best buds and he told you this.

I do know Kell and he wanted the fight badly.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 10:08 You can call me a little biased. Only because I know him.

Tbh, not excusing last night, but he gets unnecessary hate.

After Joshua, he’s the highest earning BrItish boxer.

Why should we like him for being a high earner? I paid to watch him last night and he pulled that garbage. McCloskey & Barerra fights ended in farce too.

RKY wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 11:00 Why should we like him for being a high earner? I paid to watch him last night and he pulled that garbage. McCloskey & Barerra fights ended in farce too.

I didn’t say like him for being w big earner.

Can we forget any idea of him ever having been a threat to Floyd Mayweather now? He would have been eating punches and probably panicking in a similar fashion.

overhand_right wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 12:52 Can we forget any idea of him ever having been a threat to Floyd Mayweather now? He would have been eating punches and probably panicking in a similar fashion.

When did we think that anyway?

oogiebe wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 12:56 When did we think that anyway?

Lots of people gave him a chance on here over the years, 'but Khan's handspeed blah blah blah'

overhand_right wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 12:59 Lots of people gave him a chance on here over the years, 'but Khan's handspeed blah blah blah'

Not this poster! Khan always seemed to me to be an "almost great" fighter.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 10:06 Sorry mate, I forgot you and Brook are best buds and he told you this.

Not best buds...... but known him a hell of a long time...... mate

RKY wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 11:00 Why should we like him for being a high earner? I paid to watch him last night and he pulled that garbage. McCloskey & Barerra fights ended in farce too.

Correct. I remember Barry Hearn was fckin raging with the ref after McCloskey got stopped.

ShadrachSimmo wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 14:10 Correct. I remember Barry Hearn was fckin raging with the ref after McCloskey got stopped.

While it was a soft ending Khan had won every minute of every round. The Irishman was never going to win.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 10:08 You can call me a little biased. Only because I know him.

Tbh, not excusing last night, but he gets unnecessary hate.

After Joshua, he’s the highest earning BrItish boxer.

Fair enough mate I didn't realise you knew him.....

I've always liked amir, though I do have to question peeing blood from where that shot was placed.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 15:18 I've always liked amir, though I do have to question peeing blood from where that shot was placed.

Yeah I was going to post that all those body shots are more likely the cause; that's IF he was actually peeing pink.

Coco wrote: ↑21 Apr 2019, 15:08 While it was a soft ending Khan had won every minute of every round. The Irishman was never going to win.

I don’t disagree old boy just making a reference to such endings. And Khan was at the other end this time.

i agree with overhand right.
khan was getting set up from the first, and taking some punishing blows. was hurt, then takes a bad low blow on top of it. can't really balme him at that point.
the ref should have made clear he had 5 mins. they never seem to give a low blowed fighter the 5 mins.
reminded me of ward-kovalev, though slightly different circumstances.

In an interview with Fight Hub TV, Matchroom promoter Eddie Hearn shares some alternative facts on Amir Khan’s performance against Terence Crawford last weekend. Check out his takeaways from the fight...

Hearn on the unsatisfying ending of Crawford-Khan:

“I think, firstly, I’ve got to say that — and I know the question is ‘did he quit? — he’s incredibly brave. Watch the fight back, like in the round before it happened, or even when it happen, he was jumping in going for it. And he got put down in the first round, he was getting battered to the body, but kept trying, he kept going for it. And he got hit in the nuts, it was a clear low blow.”

On most people believing Khan got hit more in the leg than in the gonads:

“Whatever it was, the fact is he wasn’t going to win the fight from there, and he tried to win the fight, and I heard in the corner his should was — his hand was hurting as well. And I think Virgil made the decision to, ‘save him’ might be the wrong word, but I think it was very unlikely Amir was gonna win that fight from there.

“He tried, he’d been in there, jumped in, he was trading off at all times, as he does. So I think Virgil just said ‘No, you know what, this is the right time. It’s over.’”

On Kell Brook wanting to fight Crawford:

“Not really. I mean, Kell went to watch the fight, obviously had a long sort of drawn out process trying to get the Amir Khan fight, and now he wants the Terence Crawford fight. We 100% support him in that. I think Kell just wants the biggest fight possible. You know, he’s at that stage of his career, he don’t wanna fighting underneath his level. He wants to be pushed, he wants to be challenged, and right now in the welterweight division Terence Crawford is a massive challenge.”