Would Amir Khan have been Floyd Mayweather’s toughest fight?

I don’t think so. I think his flaws play into Floyd’s hands.

 

Yeah we saw that in the Crawford fight where it could not sell flies.

 

No, he wasn’t big, but they were the same size. Same height. Same reach. Floyd had a reach advantage over 90% of his opponents.

It doesn’t make me feel warm.

I don’t like Khan. Never have. But with his reach, hand speed and confidence, I think he’d have caused Floyd some issues.

 

It was never going to sell.

It has to be the right fight.

There’s a lot of casual fans in the U.K.

Armchair fans who will get together in a group for a big fight with people they’ve heard of.

I’ve got loads of mates like that.

Terence Crawford is respected by knowledgeable fans but he has no casual appeal in the U.K.

Casual fans don’t know who he is.

Match Floyd Mayweather up with Brook or Khan, and it would do huge PPV over here.

 

Like I have said Khan’s confidence leads to him being knocked out. I think you underestimate the importance of ring intelligence/ring IQ. I have no problem seeing Khan getting ****ed up and knocked out in this matchup.

 

That was Hatton tho don't remember him fighting on the back foot ever, we all loved him tho because he was a warrior but only really had the forward gear.

Khan does fight at distance at first and was pretty slick at getting in and out the pocket. Till he gets caught one or two times lost his temper and went in for a row and we are back to the chin issue.

Happend more than once will say always liked khan but still don't see him winning this one

 

I hear you but he would have been timed and put out to pasture IMO. If Danny Garcia can get the measure of him in 4 then it wouldn't have taken Floyd too long to start timing him equally well and with the variety of of punches in his arsenal it doesn't bode well for Amir.

Khan should of stayed with Roach and worked on maximising his offence to take out opponents before they could get to him IMO. Risky but he would have had a better chance at taking some top tier scalps that way.

 

Totally it's all opinions see what you're getting at with yours but like I said don't think that's how it would pan out.

If khan overwhelmed him first 4 rounds and got a knock out slim chance but other than that don't see it. Like I said would actually love to be wrong about this one

 

What makes people think Khan has the ring IQ to hang with Floyd?

There's really no nice way to say it; Khan is a dumb fighter.

 

Not at all.

I just think he’d have taken him out of his comfort zone.

Floyd had hand issues and only respectable power.

 

What 4 KOs? Are you referring to a sucker punch, against a 0-0 fighter and tenshin nasakuwa? Lol.

Pauli’s could fight your mother at 147, get a KO and I guess you would also count that?

For the purpose of demonstrating Floyds knockout power against a world class boxer which is what khan is, we’re looking for his KOs against similar world class fighters. That is not a sucker punch unless you think Khan will also try to kiss him and hug him, or kickboxers.

Only 1 comes to mind and that’s Hatton. The fkin leap into a pole post certainly had a hand in that.

 

What’s it got to do with ring IQ? The op clearly listed what’s advantageous to Khan.

EVEN Floyd knew this, which is why he avoided him. Any person without an agenda please explain to me how this is not at all avoiding:

1. Floyd puts up a twitter poll on who he should fight next, Khan or Maidana. Khan WINS! This should be enough but nope.
2. Khan Already BEAT Maidana. At this point, Floyd chooses to fight Khans leftovers.
3. Khan was by far the bigger star at that point! He had a name, an intriguing style match up.

So it made sense Money wise but not for Money May.

It was the bigger legacy fight at that point as Khan had beaten Maidana and was on a spree!

And it was the fight that won Floyds own twitter poll on who he should fight next.

It’s like Pac putting up a poll saying who he should fight next, Floyd or Ortiz, same circumstances, Floyd beat Ortiz, is the bigger star and brings in more money, and STILL Pac chooses Ortiz. You wouldn’t see someone avoiding someone here???

You guys are delusional, or some major cognitive dissonance playing with your logical reasoning.