But while so much uncertainty surrounds Khan's future out of the ring, what is certain is his potential class in it.
But the problem with great speeches of the kind Obama delivered then is that they contain promises, and if those promises are not kept future speeches not only ring hollow, they are reminders of what has not been fulfilled.
The actors embrace again, this time for the purpose of shoring up, refining and clarifying their promises of a future commitment to one another that ring hollow when made and that will in short order be as forgotten as a one-night stand.
But, following that loss and another at the hands of Gary Buckland for the Celtic lightweight title in February last year, Docherty fell away from boxing to the extent that he spent 15 months mulling over his future before making a winning return to the ring in June.
So in the knowledge that there's little they can do to prevent ring fencing, the BBA is looking to the future and the implementation side of things.
On the need for banking reform, Mr Osborne maintained the government's position that ring-fencing retail banking from investment banking was necessary to prevent future government bailouts of failed banks.
It added that fighting outside the ring would be minimised and similar dramatised sequences would not be broadcast in future.
British members of Parliament began their summer holidays amid febrile speculation about Gordon Brown's future as his foreign secretary, David Miliband, appeared to throw his hat in the ring in a leadership challenge.
Sadly, Genius isn't quite ready to debut the second generation Ring Mouse, but we've been promised a glimpse in the very near future.
Leading up to the announcement, there was much political debate about the future of the health budget, which the Welsh Conservatives had called on the assembly government to ring-fence.
"That is one of the recommendations of the report that we have pseudomonas put into the same category as MRSA and C Diff as an alert organism which as soon as you find it the bells ring and you surge into action and I'm sure that is what will happen in the future, " he added.
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