Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2015-05-29, pretty good fight between Amir Khan and Chris Algieri: it gets three stars.The former Wba and Ibf light-Ww champion Amir Khan entered this fight with a professional boxing record of 30-3-0 (19 knockouts) and he is ranked as the No.6 welterweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Floyd Mayweather Jr). He suffered two consecutive defeats between 2011 and 2012, against Lamont Peterson (=Peterson vs Khan) and Danny Garcia (=Garcia vs Khan), but since then he has won four bouts beating Luis Collazo (=Khan vs Collazo) and Devon Alexander in 2014 (=Khan vs Alexander).
His opponent, the former Wka and Iska kickboxing world champion Chris Algieri, has an official record of 20-1-0 (8 knockouts) and he entered as the No.14 in the same weight class. He won the Wbo super-Lw title in 2014 when he faced Ruslan Provodnikov (=Provodnikov vs Algieri) but then he moved up in weight class to the welterweight division suffering his first loss against Manny Pacquiao (=Pacquiao vs Algieri). Khan vs Algieri is valid for the WBC Silver welterweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
Date: 2015-05-29
Where: Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Division: welterweight (147 lbs, 66.7 kg)
Title: WBC Silver welterweight title
Khan’s previous fight: Amir Khan vs Devon Alexander
Algieri’s previous fight: Manny Pacquiao vs Chris Algieri
Algieri’s next fight: Chris Algieri vs Erick Bone
Khan’s next fight: Saul Alvarez vs Amir Khan
Official video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SctB5nIKSuI
Really good fight.
I had it for Khan 115/113 as did one judge. Algieri showed Khan does not belong with Pac or May.Jr.
Worth the watch.
Khan’s holding and running through the first half left me too bored to continue watching. He’s looked better (even, say, last time out against Devon Alexander) but I agree, no point in his hoping to contend with Mayweather.
Brook would make a more interesting opponent for Mayweather. And more fun to watch would be a Khan-Brook battle, where I think Khan would be at serious risk of being KTFO.
Khan is a hit and runner, it would make for an awful fight with mayweather. Anyway, he doesn’t deserve it.
Do you mean both fighters will run like a horse in the ring?
khan never use to fight like this until he left freddie roach for virgil hunter… he should forget about his dreams as a PPV star.
The fight was better than I expected, thanks to Algieri persistent effort. I had it 116-113 for Khan, but some rounds were very close. A word on the referee: he truly lacked in authority, he didn’t seem able to obtain the fighters respect. He should have called a timeout somewhere in the second or third round, just to set things straight, but instead, he kept repeating annoyingly the same soft warnings over and over again. As a result, Khan kept on grabbing, clinch and holding more and more, Algieri kept on hitting after the breaks…
You’re right. Some control by the ref would have saved this one.
The video quality was terrible.
However, I saw a much more aggressive Algieri fighting with a guy that was full-time holding. Therefore, I’m very disappointed with the results from those two judges that gave Khan 117-111. Acceptable or reasonable was no more than two points difference.
I heard the commentators talking about a potential fight between Floyd and Khan. I call that an “English’s dream” since Khan hasn’t the pedigree to fight Floyd. However, if the fight goes on would be only because Floyd could consider Khan an easy prey which will permit him to retire undefeated.
Khan fights clearly.. Algieri was not facing khan but coming with his head down.. Otherwise points difference would be much larger.. Khan can beat May.jr because fighting style of May.jr suites him alot.
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