Timing > Speed. Khan is like a pitcher who can't adjust his speed

Excellent post I agree.

Sent from my SM-G925T using Tapatalk

 

Khan has never been the best at adapting. Really low ring iq imo. This is why he's such a front runner, people suss him out and Khan doesn't adapt

 

khan is like a taller, righthanded, zab

 

Not as simple as that. Against Prescott and Garcia, Khan was aggressive thinking he was well beyond their caliber and so not having the best of chins, he gets timed and short circuited.
Those fights may very well have turned different had Khan approached them as he should, disciplined and cautious in the knowing his chin isn't top caliber.

Up against Canelo was totally different. Unlike Prescott and Garcia, Canelo the bigger man actually worked and set up the knockout blow by digging hard and heavy shots to the body that slowed Khans legs and reflexes for him to land that blow.

Unless Khan outright focused on running and cut his punch output to less than 20 punches per round, I just don't see any way he would have been able to make adjustments to avoid Canelo's body attack
People are not taking into account here that Khan faced a better and more experienced Canelo than Mayweather did.

The experience of having seen Mayweather's speed, helped Canelo make the adjustment to deal with Khan's speed, and he did that by totaling focusing on a body attack on Khan while Khan was still fresh with energy. That's not something he focused on vs Mayweather.

This version of Canelo is a better fighter than than the one Mayweather faced.

As for the ****ogy of Khan being like a pitcher who who throws nothing but fast***** and thus the batter is ready to tee off on it.
I don't think that's totally the case, but even so, a lot of hitters even great ones cant get around on the fastball.
We don't know if Mayweather is one of those as he puts himself out of the lineup when a fastball pitcher is taking the mound. :deal

 

I think Khan from day one has not really been trained well. Fundamentals. I think his whole career has been based around speed. That is half the problem.

 

Alvarez had Khan's timing by the middle of the 3rd round. After that, Alvarez went into seek and destroy mode...

 

Not the fight I saw.

Of course it take a round or two to get acclimated to a fighters speed that's faster than yours.
Canelo getting acclimated to the speed wasn't the most important reason that he was closing the distance round after round.

The prime reason that happened was that Canelo experience told him he had to go to work and shop up the body on the faster, taller fighter.

 

Exactly how I saw it.

 

Khan fatigued, and ultimately his defense/movement lapsed, because he was a fatty on fight night.

 

I agree. This Canelo was more mature, had better timing, and had grown on every level as a fighter since the Mayweather fight. You could say Canelo was still green. Plus, Canelo was badly drained when he fought Mayweather. Mayweather-Canelo was a rushed fight.

 

Khan is a front runner who can't adjust and has bad defense. He throws his punches at the same speed with little variation to his game, there's really nothing complicated about him. Those who can't deal with it he looks good against those who can he either ends up getting knocked out or going life and death with them, it's really that simple.

 

He fought one pound lower than he did in his previous fight. That's not badly drained. PBF beats any version of Canelo as that he's a horrible styles match up for him he's not chinny he doesn't fade and he has ATG defense and ring IQ. Canelo is a boxer he can't outbox PBF and beat him at his own game.

 

Canelo was badly drained.

 

Khan has poor fundamentals. He leaves himself WIDE open when he punches, and his combos are sloppy.