By Victor Salazar

Trainer Virgil Hunter felt Amir Khan was fighting a determined fighter in Chris Algieri amid the barrage of the Floyd Mayweatherand Manny Pacquiao questions. Khan had to gut out a twelve round unanimous decision in a welterweight contest that headlined a Premier Boxing Champions card on Saturday night from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

“I let Amir know that this kid was determined and going to come to fight,” Hunter told BoxingScene.com. “I think Algieri showed that Amir had to settle in and buckle down to pull the victory out.  The Mayweather-Pacquiao questions kept coming kept coming. It’s not easy when plan B is being asked and plan A is in front of you. I think it had an effect on him."

Algieri was aggressive and caught Khan with some good shots but Hunter feels the term “chinny” for Khan is overused.

“I’ve had Amir know for a couple of years,” the trainer stated. “I think if you noticed whenever he was really hurt by a punch, he would go down or really buckled like in the Marcos Maidana fight."

"As long as he sees what’s coming, he can handle it. The other punches he never saw, the Maidana punch he saw. He gets up from those punches. Amir has such fast reflexes. If he’s hurt, he won’t fight back. Immediately he came right back [against Algieri]. He kept his head in the mouth of the cannon all night.”