These days, many point to three brutal knockout losses as evidence of a weak chin and an inability for Khan to truly challenge the top fighters in the world. But fight promotor Bob Arum says that many are discounting just how talented Khan actually is.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been around boxing for more than 50 years, and I\u2019ve seen a lot of things and I know what I\u2019m talking about. Amir Khan is a good boxer,\u201d Arum told Yahoo Sports. \u201cHe is going to give Crawford a hell of a fight. If he is at his best and Crawford\u2019s at his best, I\u2019m not saying he\u2019s going to win. What I am saying is, if Crawford is looking past him to some other fight, which I don\u2019t think he\u2019s doing, Khan is quite capable of winning this.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Whether Arum truly believes that or he\u2019s just trying to build hype for the fight, Khan has said that he thinks he has a chance on Saturday night as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor those people\u2026that are thinking it\u2019s going to be an easy fight for him because they\u2019re taking me from the last fight against Vargas, I think I\u2019m going to shock the world,\u201d Khan told Yahoo Sports, speaking of his unanimous decision victory over Samuel Vargas in September. \u201cIf they\u2019re thinking I\u2019m going to be the same fighter as that fight, they\u2019ll be in for a big shock.\u201d<\/p>\n
But no matter what Khan brings to the table, oddsmakers are regarding Crawford as a simply superior boxer. According to the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook, Crawford is a -1800 favorite to win the fight, while Khan can be backed at +900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World Boxing Organization welterweight champion Terence Crawford (34-0, 25 KOs) is heavily favored to retain his crown against challenger Amir Khan (33-4, 20 KOs) when the two meet at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night. The highly anticipated bout pits one of the best pound-for-pound boxers in the world against one of the biggest names […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":103319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1074],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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