David Haye believes Khan still is a box-office sensation – Boxing News
Fellow British fighter David Haye believes Amir Khan is a boxing sensation who still has a lot to offer to the fans. After Khan’s humiliating knockout defeat at the hands of Danny Garcia, most fighters are calling the Briton a write-off. However, Haye is
on Khan’s side, believing the Bolton proud is young and he will learn from his mistakes.
“People are writing Amir Khan off, but they do that at their peril,” said Haye in a recent interview.
David Haye knocked out Dereck Chisora in the fifth round at Upton Park on July 14, the same day when Amir Khan was knocked out by Danny Garcia at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
Haye added, “He's been written off in the past when he was knocked out by Breidis Prescott. People said he was finished, that he was chinny and had no heart. But he came back and won world titles. Lennox Lewis was knocked out twice by Oliver McCall and Hasim
Rahman, should he have given up then? He will still get the big fights, guaranteed, because he's Amir Khan and puts bums on seats. It was just an off night for him and he'll make everybody eat their words, just like he did after losing to Prescott.”
It should be noted here that while one fellow fighter David Haye is supporting Khan, another one, Carl Froch, is demoralising him. After the fight, Carl Froch commented that Khan’s career is a ‘write off’ and that the Bolton fighter should retire before
he gets into a bigger mess.
Khan’s defeat to Garcia surely made him look like a goof in the ring, yet the British-Pakistani fighter kept coming back. As they say, Khan has a big heart and he fights until the end, and so he did. Probably, it was not Khan’s lucky night and he once again
lost his WBA light welterweight title to a foe far smaller in stature than him.
For now, Khan wants to rest. He is demanding a rematch against Garcia but he might not get it, as Garcia’s camp has already turned down the offer.
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