Originally Posted by Big Ears

First of all Earl doesn't have a belt , Jon Thaxton is the British champ and imo a better fighter than Earl .

Second Romanov would be a much tougher fight than Earl .
Yuri was very inactive at the time of his fight with Earl , he lost the early rounds due to rust and grew as the fight went on . He rocked Earl badly on a few occasions and I think if he had been more active he would of stopped Earl . In the end I still had Romanov a 1 point winner .

Earl fought the fight of his live and had a good style to cope with Romanov , if you compare how the two dealt with slick fighters(using a fighter both have fought in Vanzie) then Romanov comes out much better .

Romaov dropped Vanzie 5 times on route to stopping him in 8 rounds , where as Earl fought him twice and won two conttoversial decisions .
Earl has more wear on him , his chin isn't that great and he isn't that much of a puncher either(usualy stopping people on accumulation) and he isn't the most accurate or slick fighter himself(as shown by him getting schooled by Burns) .

It makes sense fighting Earl now , it's a fight which Khan can win and win looking very very good(probably better than Katsidis did) . I very much doubt he'd beat Romanov though .

Originally Posted by bumdujour

really?? i didnt know that, just went by what boxrec said about earl and romanov

and you really think khan is so limited he cant even beat romanov??

Originally Posted by bumdujour

I mean the guy is fighting earl for the british belt, when he could face romanov for the euro belt.

and considering that earl holds a rather recent win over romanov, it´s not like this will be a much tougher fight for him.

and since he wont make lightweight much longer, this fight would make sense instead of waiting.

Originally Posted by NOrth

Is Khans chin poor, or was his defence simply shocking...? answer on a postcard to...

Originally Posted by hotti_killer

Well i think it's his defence more than anything, did anyone watch the super light hitting steven bell drop femi fehintola, was that becuase steven was a hard puncher, no, was it becuase femi's weak chinned , no, is it becuase if you walk onto a shot unless you have a chin like tua you can get dropped by even a light hitting fighter.

Originally Posted by hotti_killer

The whole point i am making is you don't know either way, and i don't think people should be as quick to judge him. I think people should wait until he fight's a bigger puncher before declaring he has a glass jaw or he is chinny, say if thaxton or earl crack him with some good shots and he doesn't go down alot of people will still say well limond knocked him down.
Also bell is one of the lightest hitting fighter's i have seen and couldn't do anything to femi apart from the first knockdown.

Originally Posted by hotti_killer

The whole point i am making is you don't know either way, and i don't think people should be as quick to judge him. I think people should wait until he fight's a bigger puncher before declaring he has a glass jaw or he is chinny, say if thaxton or earl crack him with some good shots and he doesn't go down alot of people will still say well limond knocked him down.