I disagree slightly, I think its being too British that has built up unrealistic expectations on Khan's shoulders. He's a young lad and a decent boxer it just annoys me that the media hype him up, especially Sky so they can charge £15 a pop to see his fights, even when he's at the very start of his career and unproven. Its similar with the football team. Every competion were always about 6/1 and 4th or 5th favourites? Why? We've not won anything for nearly 50 years and not looked like winning anything since.
Without all the media hype, we would of been watching the fight last night hoping he won, not expecting it because Sky tell us he's ace and therefore worth £15 from each of us.
Rant over
I agree but then that's why I ignore media hype before anything. You take football for example. They don't let us down, they re just crap and we should expect that. Until a manager really mixes it up that won't change.
You take someone like Khan, he is over hyped but that doesn't mean it's acceptable for him to be torn to shreds when he fails. He actually got booed on the way out last night - what a joke. He hasn't done much wrong, he got outclassed and has to deal with it and train harder. It doesn't really help him to wake up to pages worth of, "give up you're crap".
If Rocky had taken that attitude after losing to Clubber Lang, he'd have never ended Rocky 3 a winner!