Originally Posted by Styker:
“If you remember Khan with his original professional trainer Oliver Harrison was very disciplined. He used to come forward throw his punches and move back in a calm manor without getting caught too much. On another forum, I used to think that Oliver Harrison's tactics for Khan where too basic and I was calling for Khan to take on a more heavyweight trainer but a jounalist on that forum took the complete opposite view and I think he was right in the end.
Its since Khan has started to switch trainers that he started to get beaten. Having said that, I still think Khan needed more moves in his repertoire but Khan seemed to be at his most disciplined under Harrison and he would do well to go back to being that disciplined/focuses. His loss to Prescott was not under Harrison either was it? It was under that trainer Khan took on from what Columbia wasn't it?”
“If you remember Khan with his original professional trainer Oliver Harrison was very disciplined. He used to come forward throw his punches and move back in a calm manor without getting caught too much. On another forum, I used to think that Oliver Harrison's tactics for Khan where too basic and I was calling for Khan to take on a more heavyweight trainer but a jounalist on that forum took the complete opposite view and I think he was right in the end.
Its since Khan has started to switch trainers that he started to get beaten. Having said that, I still think Khan needed more moves in his repertoire but Khan seemed to be at his most disciplined under Harrison and he would do well to go back to being that disciplined/focuses. His loss to Prescott was not under Harrison either was it? It was under that trainer Khan took on from what Columbia wasn't it?”
Yes, team Khan had a falling out with Harrison, as they have a tendency to do with people. Cuban I believe the new trainer was. Harrison's a good trainer, the grass isn't always greener.
But alas, Khan and his team seem to get taken in by whatever big name American flavour of the month trainer is. I've never heard trainers talked about as being so important apart from with Khan for some reason. Trainers can only do so much, once he's in the ring it's down to him. He'll never be Andre Ward - Khan is a fighter but he isn't a boxer; Ward knows things about boxing that you can't teach people.
To me it seems like Khan has lost confidence. He's had so many people in his ear telling him what to do and what not to do that he's losing what made him special in the first place. Plus, people say he's only 26, but in boxing terms he's a very old 26 - he's been in a few too many wars than is desirable if you want a long career at the top. Maybe he's just declining.




