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Amir Khan is convinced that Kell Brook has a shaky chin.
The 35-year-old Khan 34-5 (21) has continued his war of words with arch-rival Brook 39-3 (27) in the lead-up to their 12-round 149-pound catchweight bout at Manchester Arena in Manchester, England on Saturday night.
There have long been questions about the quality of Khan’s chin after being dropped multiple times in his 17 year pro career.
But the Bolton man says it is Brook, 35, who should be worried about going down after being hurt by a jab in his last fight against WBO welterweight champion Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford in November 2020.
“I think that’s the one advantage he’s got on me, he thinks,” Khan told BBC’s 5 Live Boxing. “But to be honest with you, I really believe that Kell can’t take a shot. I think his chin is really bad.
“Look I’ve seen him be hurt bad with a jab. I’ve seen him put down his last couple of fights and hurt real badly.”
All three of Brook’s losses have come by stoppage. In his fifth-round loss to Kazakh bomber Gennadiy Golovkin at middleweight he suffered a fractured right eye socket before his corner threw in the towel.
In his next fight against Errol ‘The Truth’ Spence Jr at welterweight eight months later, Brook sustained a fracture to his left eye socket. He was down in the 10th and again in the 11th en route to being stopped in the penultimate round.
“Obviously, them eye sockets, the problem he’s had in previous fights having both eye sockets fractured,” Khan said. “One was against Golovkin, the other one was against Spence.
“I mean look, he’s in a position where he can get hurt real badly.”
Khan himself has been stopped four times in his five losses. Questions were first asked about his whiskers when he was stopped in the opening round by Breidis Prescott in 2008. Those questions persisted in his fourth round loss to Danny Garcia for years later, who had him on the deck twice.
Stepping up in weight to face Mexican superstar Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez at a catchweight in 2016, Khan was knocked rotten in the sixth-round with a well-timed right hand. He didn’t fair much better in his challenge to WBO welterweight champion Crawford three years later. Khan was down in the first and stopped by TKO in the sixth.
“At the end of day, in boxing, if you’re gonna get hit with a shot you’re gonna go down,” Khan said.
“Obviously I’ve gone up and down weight divisions, fought big guys like Canelo. You’re gonna get hit. If you get hit by a bigger guy you’re gonna get knocked out.”
So who does have the better chin? We will find out this weekend.
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