Amir Khan't

This weekend there were two upsets seen by millions of people on TV. Here's Amir Kahn getting trounced by Breidis Prescott (although you may want to avoid reading the fascist posts underneath):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1hLX9j1gEg

The other one was Rachel Rice winning Big Brother

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9wOgh6NSkI

Rice was 11/4 to win, while Prescott was a massive 33/1 outsider for his fight. So if you'd put a tenner on the two, you'd be walking away with around a grand.

Rice has already been dubbed "the dullest winner ever" to win BB, and with good reason. I didn't see the final show, but I would imagine the highlights package lasted less than the Kahn fight. She was devoid of adventure, annoyingly prudish, and contributed very little in terms of coonversation in any way. So why did she win? Two reasons - the whole of Wales was voting for her, and she was a normal person.

The BB producers made another shambolic job of putting the programme together, but getting some relatively run-of-the-mill people in was one thing they got right. The freaks were there - Kat, Darnell, Alex, Dennis and Bex being notably awful - but they were beaten. Ironically Rachel's audition video was completely false - bubbly, dancing drivel, talking about how funny she is and living in a world of bunny rabbits and magic. A right load of garbage basically. But once she was there she sneaked through the rounds and was victorious. At first I was annoyed, now I feel OK about it.

Don't really want to say much more about her or the series because it was pretty dreadful. Putting Rex's girlfriend in halfway through was scandalous and nearly ruined him as a character. Also nobody had the guts to tell him that his hair had morphed into a ginger parrot crest by the end of the series. Luke wore a suit on the way in, and never wore it again. Bex was the worst thing to leave Coventry since the German bombers flew back home. The jail was rubbish. And Davina has got to grow. Her shouting is well documented, but the more annoying trait was that exaggerated, closed-eye, witch's face smile that hung off her face. Her delivery was dreadful, most of her dresses were bordering on S and M, and quite frankly when BB10 comes around - most likely the last series - hopefully she will evaporate with it.

On to Kahn. His chin has failed the test several times before and it did it again.

When you are fighting a guy who's unbeaten and has knocked out 17 of 19 opponents, the one thing you don't do, even if you believe he's been fighting people from the local job centre or bus stops, is run out with your chin stuck out like a flasher's dangly bits. There was no testing the waters, no surveillance of what Prescott had to offer, and he was annihilated.

The first right hand made his legs do a little jig, but rather than grabbing hold with Mr Tickle arms and stopping his opponent punching he traded, and a right hand dropped him almost sideways, in the way that is usually a fight ender. Somehow he got up, and really shouldn't have been allowed to continue, but he was. The second knockdown propelled him against the cornerpost. The 54 worst seconds of his life.

Can he come back? Maybe, but I doubt it. Lots of fighters return from defeat, but rarely defeats like that. In the 70s Duane Bobick, an outstanding amateur in the US team, was wiped out by Kenny Norton after being hit in the windpipe. Never did anything again. Others that spring to mind are Audley Harrison, Michael Grant and Jorge Luis Gonzalez, all crushed when they stepped up a level.

Kahn doesn't have the punch, he blatantly doesn't have the chin, and possibly most worrying he doesn't seem to have any tactical awareness. He will be beaten again within the next year, and this time it will be fatal to his career.

As a matter of fact, I think Manny Pacquiao will beat Oscar De La Hoya - that's one for another blog later in the year.