Floyd Mayweather vs. Amir Khan speculation & discussion

Khan.

Although having no chance in hell, he will pull huge numbers in the UK and with Floyds history of taking low risk high reward (money not legacy) fights, he's probably the one to go to.

 

You bring up interesting points but to no avail. I too after the Zab fight thought that he or rather his style could beat FLoyd but I admit I was wrong and heres why:

First off he is not faster than Zab when Floyd fought him and even if you disagree it doesn't matter .... Khan telegraphs his punches and Floyd would figure his style out in 1 rd. Also Khan is an agressive fighter, which will play right into Floyd's hands. I see this fight if it happens, resembling the Diego Coralles (R.I.P) fight. After getting countered and tasting Floyd's underrated power, Khan will either retreat and get walked down and stopped (as he is horrible fighthing backwards, Floyd will smother and completely frustrate him) and/or he gets too brave for his own good and walks into a mean check hook ala Floyd vs. Hatton and he doesn't get up.

Yes Khan is really hard to win rds against but so is Floyd. It also a fact that all volume punchers who face FLoyd, end up with their lowest punch output and connection percentage. He has an uncanny ability to negate your strongest tool and use it against you. People can hate all they want, but Robert is a decent fighter. Floyd is just once in ageneration type of fighter. Thats the difference

 

The problem is you don't need to have one-shot KO power to beat Khan. PBF would hit Khan with something he doesn't see shake him up and finish him off. He would stop Khan in 7 rounds or less. With that said this fight would be a mega fight in the UK and I wouldn't mind seeing it.

 

Not likely. Even though Mayweather doesn't have one shot knockout power, he still has enough power to buckle Khan easily and to stop him over the distance. Especially if the ref doesn't let Khan hold on for dear life like he got to do against Maidana and Diaz.

 

3...You got to knock out Khan to win.


Now that's some straight bull**** right there/

Presscott and Garcia were well ahead on points before Khan got KOed

It's not their fault the man cant stand up after a few shots/

The truth is that Khan mostly loses by KO cause he has no chin, not becuase hes some supreme technician.

 

ahead on points!?!? :rofl:rofl

What fights were you watching?

 

idiot
Garcia had 3 knockdowns in the bag, plus winning round 3 easily and round 4 was gonna be like a 10-6 atsch

 

Prescott was ahead by at least 10-7 before they stopped Khans ass also

 

versus Garcia Khan had some silly flurries in round 1 and 2. but the 3rd round wiped all that out with one punch and round 4 had Garcia well ahead

 

well Guerrero didn't earn it he fought nobodies then struggled past 2 old shot fighters and completely ducked 2 divisions

 

Are you out of your ****ing mind?

Guys like Maidana, Diaz, and Peterson were able to routinely find the mark against Khan in the later rounds, and yet you think an absolutely superlative precision puncher like Mayweather wouldn't land early and often??

Are you kidding me???

 

I don't know how long you've been watching boxing for or how much you know about the previous opposition Floyd has fought. But I've been watching the guy since he turned Pro (literally every one of his fights,) and I can tell you without a doubt Khan is not the fastest fighter Floyd would've fought if they met in the ring. Khan does have good footspeed and very good handspeed, but a younger and prime Judah had him beat in both of those areas, and it's not really that close. Granted, he just came off that loss to Baldomir when he fought Floyd, but on an athetic basis, Zab was probably the fastest fighter FLoyd ever fought.

I like Khan, I thought he was going to be a helluva champion a few years back pre-Prescott. But he can easily get knocked out, his defense is still very much a work in prorgess and almost anytime the guy gets hit with a flush shot his legs start to buckle and it almost always looks like he's about to do the chicken dance. That Julio Diaz fight was very alarming to see, and pretty much sealed my thought process on how far Khan can go in his career, which is not far at all at this point.

Floyd would stop him in 5 or 6 rounds at most. Khan will get hit by a lot of punches he wouldn't see coming, and since Khan is naturally a 140 lb guy, he'd feel FLoyd punches pretty badly. He would either get knocked out cold by the 5th or 6th round from a check hook or a lead right, or I could see Hunter throwing in the towel after he gets thoroughly dominated midway through the fight.

That fight I can almost guarantee would not go the distance. Khan would have to be the aggressor to even have a 1% chance, and his aggression will lead to precise counterpunching from a guy who's just too dam accurate.

 

Excellent post.

 

BTW you shouldn't compare Guerrero to Khan. RObert has a very good chin and a champions heart, 2 things that Khan has showed time and time again he doesn't have. You can't teach someone to have an iron hcin, you either have it or you don't. And his punch resistance in general seems to be waning, any clean shot Diaz nailed him with last fight made Khan go backwards and almost fall down. It was embarassing to see Khan fight so poorly in a highly controversial decision against Julio.

 

in an even greater bull**** PPV than this weekends....wether they have to fabricate some title or whatever behind the scene machinations need to happen this tripe will find its way on PPV.

mark my words the 140 pound divison is about to be cherry picked for all its worth.

I was on to the Guererro fight from the start they didn't pull the wool over this boys eyes. Slow, flat footed, light weight... yea he may have been blinding at 126 but at 147 the ghost is pedestrian at best. later...