Andriy Kotelnik is hardly taking his wide loss to Amir Khan with grace. The former titleholder says he didn't feel he was beaten "by enough." (Photo via www.telegraph.co.uk)

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There's really no other way to put the headline, so I didn't even try. Andriy Kotelnik has broken out that old, dumb line of thinking about having to REALLY BEAT the "champion," which he feels Amir Khan did not do in his July victory over Kotelnik.

Said Kotelnik:

"If that bout had taken place in any other country, everything could have been different. I think that you have to be far superior to beat a champion, you must win convincingly. Amir Khan didn’t do it. It’s not the way you beat a champion. If we compare this bout to the ones where I had been given a draw, though I’d been much stronger, Khan didn’t show anything special. I wasn’t expecting such subjective refereeing. The judges gave all the rounds to Khan, I believe it’s unjust."

I know some boxing fans still think this way, but it's so ridiculous to me that I won't even bother again. We've discussed it before. I'll just say in short that thinking there has to be a designated margin of victory for someone to lose their "championship" is moronic. On another point, Kotelnik has had one draw in his career, against Souleymane M'baye in 2007, so I don't know what "ones" he's talking about where he was given a draw.

Anyway, the bigger point here is really that Kotelnik was completely dominated by Khan. Official scores were 120-108, 118-111 and 118-111 for Khan. Bad Left Hook scored it 118-110 for Khan. The fight was not close at all. Kotelnik did nothing to Khan, whose speed and jab kept Kotelnik from ever getting out of the starting blocks in the fight, and when it appeared clear to everyone on earth that Kotelnik needed a knockout to win the fight, he never even tapped Khan's chin. Khan outboxed and outsmarted him for 12 rounds, and he did so with relative ease.

You know why the judges gave the rounds to Khan? Because he won them. Kotelnik apparently believes Khan should have fought stupider, which of course might have given him a chance to win. Instead, Khan fought a clean fight, dominated him for 36 minutes, and won. I've seen nobody argue this decision at all. Khan won, Kotelnik lost, and this is sour grapes from a fighter who was left frustrated, without his title, and back at the drawing board, routed by a superior physical specimen.

Kotelnik currently has nothing scheduled. Khan faces Dmitriy Salita on December 5 in the UK.