The brutal beating Khan was taking by Crawford before quitting following low blow shown in savage punch stats

Khan insists a low blow was the reason he couldn't continue the fight, but he was comfortably outclassed by the champ

THESE stats show just how outclassed Amir Khan was in his stoppage loss to Terence Crawford at the weekend.

The fight ended in controversy as Khan was pulled out by his corner after six rounds.

He claimed he could not continue after being on the receiving end of a low blow in the fifth - but many have scoffed at that claim.

Khan was well behind on the judges' scorecards, and had already been put down in the first round of a one-sided fight.

The Bolton boxer continues to deny that he "didn't fancy it" and says he will not retire.

But Crawford, as the bookies called when putting him at odds of 1/16 to win, showed he was simply too good.

Crawford landed an impressive 50 per cent of his power punches thrown, 58 of 116.

KHAN'S ELBOW INJURY

In comparison Khan landed just over half of that, 25.2 per cent, with 31 landing of 123 attempted.

In total, Crawford landed 88 punches for a 41.7 per cent rate, Khan's was a meagre 24.2 per cent with 44 landing from 182.

As well as hurting from the low blow, Khan also revealed he suffered an elbow injury in the lead up to his world title fight.

After the bizarre defeat, Bolton’s 2004 Olympic silver medallist told he suffered problems with his elbow in the build up to the fight - but insisted that was not why he was withdrawn from the contest.

Khan said: “I’ve had some problems in training camp with the arm. It’s all good, I don’t know what it is to be honest with you.