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Khan easily.

It will be anything but easy for him.

It was piss easy for him :winkold:

Won it behind his jab as I expected

Shouldn't have been easy for him but it was strangely a walk in the park. I eagerly await his ducking of Maidana though

Told you not to bet on him mate

ouch SD...

Against a bum...

The ref will apparently be this guy (acording to ESB)

Stanley Christodoulou

Reffed over 100 world title fights since 1973, first ref to officiate world title fights at all 17 weights and he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2004.

If Khan wins it won't be via a pet refereeing decision

Good to know it's not a typical Warren ref

I believe Christodoulou was the only judge that gave the first Lewis/Holyfield fight to Lewis...

I wouldn't bet money on Kotelnik mate, he didn't look all that impressive to me when he beat Rees, who lets face it is crap.

Khan will win this and no doubt go after the guy that beat Prescott to claim he's 'avenged' that loss :shock:

Do you honestly think I believe he was poisioned?

I'd like to hope you don't....but a lot of Klitschko lovers still believe that crap...or the 'diabetic incident' one, that was funny as **** too

Here's hoping Kotelnik cleans Khans clock. **** me I think that's a tongue twister you know, try saying it fast :shock:

I know this is in no-way related to this thread, but I had to post it somewhere.

Sakio Bika's excuse for losing to Lucian Bute :

Bute defeated you previously. Can you win a return bout? Why?

Yes I can win a return bout. Last time I fought Bute, I was very sick and almost drowned in the hotel pool the day before my fight. I never learnt how swim and decided to cool down after training. I didn’t realize there was a deep end of the pool and jumped straight in. I know I can beat Bute and would not go near any swimming pools before the fight!

http://www.fightnews.com/?p=17415#more-17415

:crylaugh: :crylaugh:

You laugh at that yet you believe Wladimirs excuses for his loss against Brewster?

Both are equally ridiculous if you ask me....

Looking forward to the fight, think Khan will win by KO 7/8 round

interesting article here, any thoughts?

http://tinyurl.com/cs9fa3

Rightly or wrongly, lightweight Amir Khan (20-1, 15 KOs) is making his first title challenge on June 27th against Ukrainian Andriy Kotelnik (31-2-1, 13 KOs), the World Boxing Association light welterweight champion. Under most circumstances, this should be a moment that’s looked forward to by most British boxing fans due to Khan, the 2004 Olympic Silver Medalist for Britain, getting such a fast shot at the title in his career.

However, Khan seems to be under fire by many fans that level criticism at him that he’s dodging the best lightweight talent in the division. But more than that, they seem to have a general dislike of him as a whole, and not just because he was blown out in the 1st round by Colombian Breidis Prescott last year.

Khan, 22, was receiving a great deal of negative publicity even before that fight by fans and writers, some of it because of his shaky chin at times and others because of his so-called weak opposition. I think most of it is unfair to be honest. I’ve checked the early records of Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton, both of which were fighting mostly soft opponents through four years of their professional boxing career.

So, if it was okay for them to fight lower level opponents, then why isn’t it okay for Khan? I think he’s proven that the loss to Prescott was a fluke thing in Amir’s recent 5th round technical decision victory over Marco Antonio Barrera. When Khan is fighting smart and thinking defensively, there’s few better fighters than him in the sport.

So, is there a fighter that is more hated than Khan in the UK, and if so, who? I can’t think any fighter that is as polarizing as Amir Khan, and it just seems so odd that he’s been the one that’s getting so much abuse. Is it that the UK eats their young?

I remember all the abuse that Audley Harrison, another Olympic Gold Medal winner for Britain, took from the British public early in his career. Why was that? It seemed unfair because he was being pushed much too fast for the skills that he needed to learn. Harrison seemed to never get a chance by many fans, as they ripped him to shreds even at the very infancy of his pro career.

Now that James DeGale has emerged as another Gold Medal winner for Britain from the 2008 Olympics, he’s receiving a similar fate. However, none of those fighters are criticized as much as Amir Khan. He holds a special place for many fans who take pleasure seemingly in blasting him and questioning his talent.

I wonder what they’ll say when Khan defeats Kotelnik and wins the WBA title? My guess is that even then Khan won’t get much credit for it.

Khan has received a lot of attacks recently because he’s chosen to jump at the chance to move up to the light welterweight division and get a title shot against Kotelnik.

Why on Earth should Khan be criticized for this I ask you? If he had stayed at lightweight, he wasn’t going to get a title shot for at least year so he did the wise thing and moved up for an opportunity. Fighters do it all the time and don’t face abuse, yet Khan is vilified for doing so.

If there’s a fighter in the UK that is hated more than Khan, I don’t know who they are because his name seems to be first and foremost when getting skewered by fans. It’s not right and I think British fans have become spoiled by Ricky Hatton and Calzaghe’s success and not remembered how long it took them to get to where they achieved anything.

Who the hell wrote that article, what a moron :shock:

ALL fighters face 'weak' or 'hand picked' opponents in the early stages of their careers yes, but if those fighters are any good then they don't get knocked out in the first round by any of those, or dropped by notoriously feather-fisted opponents on the way. I hate Slappy Joe but comparisons between him and glass jawed Khan cannot be made, same goes for Hatton who was fighting hand picked guys yes but at least he was actually beating them without getting knocked down, apart from the Magee fight.

I love how the Prescott loss is dismissed as a fluke too, just because Khan beat Barrera, what a load of shite. If it was a fluke then Khan should rematch him and beat him, like Lewis did with Rahman - but he won't because if he did he'd get starched again in exactly the same fashion. Picking on little old guys like Barrera is all well and good, same with Kotelnik who has never greatly impressed me. Here's the thing though, if he wants to be taken seriously at his new weight he's got to take on REAL fighters should he beat Kotelnik because at that weight there's plenty to choose from. I can't wait, personally because he's going to get hammered and exposed for what he truly is again - just like Hamed was against Barrera all those years ago

3 all the way for me, stopped supporting England after the disgraceful treatment Graham Taylor got when he was manager, supported Italy ever since, as it seems to annoy people.

Perhaps the Champions League Final was just one step too far in a season where the team had played 67 games, more than any other English team in history. Next season, Brown will be fully fit again, Hargreaves will be like a new signing for us when he comes back, Berbatov should have settled, Cristiano will still be here ... this is only the start really. Hopefully next year we'll go out of the domestic cups early so we can focus on Europe and the League.

To me, that team last night looked like a side who were still celebrating their premiership win. They gave off the impression that this game was somewhat of a hinderance getting in the way of their summer. I still believe this team, when they're focused, are the best we have ever had here at Manchester United.

Apparently Barcelona have played 61 games this season so the too many games excuse doesn't wash.

Brown being fully fit is an irrelevence as he won't be first choice anyway, Berbatov won't settle because he's a lazy petulant tosser and Ronaldo will be gone, just as I predicted at the start of this season - his price went down by a few million last night, too

Also if your team treats the Champions League final as a hindrance then you've got big, big problems. They didn't treat it like a hindrance at all they just got out-played by a far, far better side - and we all thoroughly enjoyed seeing it.

Got to admit "you're on sky sports" was amusing tonight, nothing but happy scousers and gutted cockneys calling in

I've finally made it back from the pub and managed to stop crying for long enough to post. So I will say simple this .... tonights performance was **** awful but this is still one of the best Manchester United teams of all time. And at the end of the day, no team has ever or will ever win retain the Champions League during this era. I genuinely believe we can win it next year in Madrid.

Tonight hurt so, so bad. At the end of the day though, we are the English champions and the Champions of the world, Carling Cup winners, and Champions League Finalists. Not too bad a season ... and the best is still to come next season.

I somehow doubt it. Chelsea and Arsenal will strengthen in the summer, as will Liverpool. You on the other hand are about to lose Ronaldo and the 30 goals a season he brings. His comments after the game seemed to me to be someone spoiling for an argument with a very stubborn manager in the hope he will be shown the door.

My opinion is that you're wrong. Lets create a competition to find out statisticaly who is... oh snap!

Liverpool won the champions league and finished 5th in the league, so were they best team in europe?

Remember Ferguson whingeing back in the day when they got knocked out by Dortmund, because United were Champions the season before and Dortmund were 2nd he felt it was unjust that his side even had to play them.

Skip forward 12 months, United win the Champions League after finishing 2nd in the League the year before, he says **** all - and gets knighted for his jamminess. You could write a book on this foul clearings in the woods hypocrisy, you really could.

I hope they give that referee the final, now that would be a laugh

Yea, lets see Stretford's reaction when he denies Man Utd 4 penalties

It wouldn't be his reaction I'd be looking for to be honest, it'd be Ferguson doing a Jock Stein that would leave me pissing myself laughing. The thought of the biggest cheat in football meeting his maker whilst blowing his top over a bad decision is one that fills me with joy

I hope they give that referee the final, now that would be a laugh

Some Munich supporting twot texted into "you're on Sky Sports" after the match to say that what Drogba did was worse than what Cantona did, and he should be given a similar ban.

Yes, swearing and assault are comparable I suppose. To some people

Maybe because yours was an FA Cup semi where you played your kids and it was your 3rd priority.....whereas Chelsea were playing for a place in the champions league final, which is the only thing they could win?

Fergie would have completely lost the plot tonight if those decisions went against Man Utd...

If the referee had done his job at Old Trafford in the quarter finals, United would have been knocked out by Porto, he turned down a blatant penalty in that one. That gets forgotten though....

Chelsea did not lose the game because of the referee, they lost because they failed to score more goals than their opposition over 180 minutes.

At the end of the day, yes, the referee could have given a penalty. But, if you need to shoot from the penalty spot to score, you do not deserve to be in a European Cup final.

The fouls denied them goalscoring opportunities, hence why they were penalties.

You'd be complaining if you were in the same situation.

But look at all the opportunities that they just flat-out missed as well. And all the crosses that went awry. If their players had been mentally stronger tonight, they'd have scored again and killed the game instead of moping about penalties that werent given.

You mean like you lot against Everton eh? Of course, you never complained after that one, did you?

We ceretainly didn't complain to the extent that Chelsea did.

You only had one to complain about that's why, they had 4.

Chelsea did not lose the game because of the referee, they lost because they failed to score more goals than their opposition over 180 minutes.

At the end of the day, yes, the referee could have given a penalty. But, if you need to shoot from the penalty spot to score, you do not deserve to be in a European Cup final.

The fouls denied them goalscoring opportunities, hence why they were penalties.

You'd be complaining if you were in the same situation.

But look at all the opportunities that they just flat-out missed as well. And all the crosses that went awry. If their players had been mentally stronger tonight, they'd have scored again and killed the game instead of moping about penalties that werent given.

You mean like you lot against Everton eh? Of course, you never complained after that one, did you?

Floyd is bigger than anyone he's faced. Floyd is better than anyone he's faced. Pac throws wild punches coming forward which Floyd will counter and eventually stop him late on. I think Floyd will have to put in a very good performance to win & it'll be tough, but I don't see Pac winning.

Haven't you learned anything in the last year?

Boxing isn't about size, it isn't about a few pounds. Pac started at 106 and just destroyed two boxers who are naturally a lot bigger.

Mayweather's style means size really becomes irrelevant, doesn't mean anything.

Mayweather will sit on the ropes and Pacquiao will look to pick holes with quick, sharp punches. Mayweather has the perfect punch to disabled a southpaw, the lead right hand.

And there's absolutely no way that Mayweather stops Pacquiao, not a chance.

It's a 50/50 fight that needs to happen.

Size most certainly does mean something, otherwise why bother with weight classes? Mayweather has advantages over Pac in height, weight, reach and is more skilled and has just as much speed too. This is a relatively easy fight to pick to be honest, people are getting excited because Pac stopped Hatton quicker than Mayweather did, it's meaningless. Unless Mayweather has slipped due to his absence (which I doubt he will have) he'll walk through Marquez with relative ease, then beat Pac too, lopsided decision or late stoppage due to Pac getting desperate like Hatton did when he fought Floyd.

One other point - the De La Hoya that Mayweather beat was a different animal to the one that Pac beat too.

I'm with Gabby on this, I've not got a doubt in my mind that Mayweather will win if the fight comes off.

If he fights again, I don't think Mayweather Snr will be in his corner.

Rumours were rife prior to the Pac fight, that the pair had fallen out.

Apprently Mayweather Snr was turning up late for training sessions etc.

I watched Hatton/Pac 24/7 before the fight, and in one Mayweather Snr made himself late for a training session because he stopped off at Taco Bell. Ricky wasn't happy. :evil:

It's wrong to try to put blame on Mayweather for this loss, it's hardly Mayweathers fault that Hatton lost his head on the night, he even asked him what the hell he was playing at after the first round - and for most of the 2nd round it appeared it had sunk in. Hatton actually got caught with that big left hook twice towards the end of the round, the first time wasn't quite as accurate as the 2nd one but it would have taken his head off had it landed cleanly. Then the berk bull-rushed forward right into the same shot again :shock:

Mayweather Snr might be a bit of a prick, but he is a very good trainer....can't polish a turd though I'm afraid. My initial pick for this was Pac by late KO and I still think that's what would have happened if Hatton had fought like he did against Malignaggi, and not like he fought against Tszyu.

Pac comes in at 138lbs.

Hatton in at 140lbs.

Seen the weigh in pics, so much for the so- called size difference....I'm sticking with my pick, Pac-man in the 11th.

I've been flip-flopping on this one but my mind is now made up, Pac-man by late stoppage, and I'm unanimous in that.

Hatton hates lefties, doesn't deal well with speed and despite being the bigger man I don't think that's enough. The referee might once again be the deciding factor in a Hatton fight I feel. If he's allowed to get away with his dirty tactics he might get a late stoppage but if the referee applies the letter of the law we'll see a break-down of Hatton and another fortnight of crying, like we did after the Mayweather fight.

Not a huge advocate of him. I remember reading a piece in The Guardian I think it was about how he never liked football, but then he saw Chelsea were doing well and his son took a liking to Chelsea because of it so he got free tickets in corporate and now supports Chelsea after saying he hated football the week before in the same paper. He has a very dry sense of humour but I don't know there's just something about him which I dislike.

Doesn't that just make him a good father though? My old man wasn't the biggest football fan on earth and as a result I had to wait until I could pay for it myself before I could go to Villa matches. Clarkson doesn't like football, his son shows an interest so he takes him along and tries to show an interest himself. Hardly something to criticise him for if you ask me - and I suspect if his son had shown an interest in Villa instead of Chelsea you'd probably agree on that :winkold:

The prick hasn't got a good word to say about our city. Self centred Southern bastard of the highest order.

He does have a point though, Birmingham is a toilet. Not as big a toilet as Manchester or Liverpool but still not the nicest place on earth.

Bradys column has upset a few filth fans today, apparently.

I wonder why?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/sunsport_columnists/article2302149.ece

:shock:

get home from a goling trip in florida on V-day

so i will have a full sack for the wife

Get a couple of prostitutes on the last night of your trip, empty your sack everywhere and that way you'll last a lot longer for the wife. Show some consideration for **** sake

I always view Valentines day as an opportunity to wind people up myself, especially fat women. Maybe I'm missing the point?

Just been chatting to a 14 year old girl online. She's funny, sexy and flirty. Now she tells me she is and undercover cop! How cool is that at her age!?