What a complete shambles

This will be a long post as after watching that I have a few things to get off my chest so please bear with me.

Petersen

First off congratulations to Lamont Petersen, he is a tireless hard working guy who has pulled himself up from nothing to become a champion in every sense of the word, the man is a role model and deserves full respect.

The sad part is that only now (I hope) will Petersen get even a measure of the respect and admiration he deserves, to come from a background like his and then be virtally ignored by your local media and public when he is fighting to become a WORLD CHAMPION in his hometown is a ****ing disgrace, he will be paraded around now as the pride of DC and good on him, but shame on the paraders because even after coming from what he did you wankers didnt want to know the man until he literally reached the top. For shame and what a stain on boxing that kind of disrespect is. They say boxing is dying and with this kind of thing who can disagree?

Khan (& Roach)

Hmm where to start on him, well they say hindsight is 20/20 but looking back the warning signs were all there. First off they selected a fighter that most thought would be able to "make it close" and then they put the fight on in his hometown. Secondly they select the kind of "boxer" known to be troublesome to the roach style. They know Khan slows down late, they also know Petersen survives early trouble and adapts coming on strong down the stretch, and last they underestimate a guy who defines "underdog".

It's time for Roach and Khan to part ways, it may seem a knee jerk, and Freddie has done a good job with Khan, but thats the point his "job" has reached its conclusion, there is nothing more to learn, Khan has perfected "the roach style", it is the style roach teaches and as seen recently with Pac-Marquez and now Khan-Petersen it has it's flaws, they are now well known and Roach doesnt know how to correct those flaws. Many may have Khan ahead on their scorecards, and I wont disagree, I feel Khan did shade the fight, but it doesnt matter.

Khan has more talent and ability than Petersen, he should be able to beat fighters like Petersen, but he isnt as well "educated" as Petersen, not with Roach. Khan needs a trainer now to tell him how to fight in the pocket, how to defend an uppercut and how to fight inside and not to lay on the ****ing ropes. Khan needs someone to teach him new things.

If Khan rematches petersen with Roach in the corner he will lose more convincingly, if he rematches him with a trainer who works with him on inside game he will win.

Finally this fight puts the lid on Pac-PBF imo and GOD FORBID PBF-Khan, the hit and run style would be ruthlessly exposed by Mayweather, who knows more about "boxing" than Pac, Khan and Roach combined have forgotten.

 

As I said, Roach HAS done well with Khan but has nothing more to teach, yes Khans inside game is ****, so is Pacquiao's, ROACH doesnt understand inside game, Khan needs a trainer to TRAIN him to fight inside.

Im fine with Khan not being P4P number one, im not even upset he lost, but he CAN beat a guy like Petersen but he NEEDS someone to teach him some new looks.

 

lest we forget Khan is only 25, he's younger than an unknown Andre Ward was upon entering the super 6, I'm not going to write him off as a lost cause, but there cant be any ****ing around, there needs to be a change and it needs to be now, if not Khan will have to settle for being title holder level in his career.

 

Pac lost UD to Morales at Khans age and was a good but not great fighter


oh wait.......

 

To be fair Pac also has the equaliser in his brutal power which Khan lacks.

I just dont want to write the kid off, I wish him good luck hes still one of our best and i want to see hi do well