prime amir khan would have been a nightmare for floyd

Meanwhile in real life Floyd ducked Khan.

 

He did, Floyd played chess with his matchmaking and cherrypicked some of his opponents. Im not fanboy, Floyd blatantly did this BS. It's a similar situation with Wilder/Whyte. I'd put the house on Wilder KOing Whyte but Wilder ducked him because he didn't want to take the risk. Ridiculous really. However i need a good explanation as to why he'd beat Floyd, because "Khan faster" don't cut it. Floyd has been in a situation where he was outsped by Zab Judah and he adjusted. Khan is predictable, Khan can't change up his gameplan, Khan lacks defense, Khan has handspeed and thats it. He'd trouble Floyd early and thats it.

 

See all you've done there is just go point by point and disagree, which is fine, but you can't say I ignored your points when I quite clearly didn't.

Alexander, yeah Kahn looked good that night, but a lot of people looked good against Alexander, Khan was incredibly inconsistent at WW.

Khan couldn't Floyd's accuracy or timing. I've no doubt he gets knocked out against Mayweather.

 

I didn't say that he 'would' beat Floyd. However I think his chances of beating him were higher than the other guys available at the time because of the unfavourable sytyle matchup. I think the speed might trouble Floyd throughout the fight. Could Floyd still win? Sure. But he didn't want to take the risk.

 

The bi yearly thread on this. That is utter rubbish.

The fact is Floyd has one of the highest fight IQs in the history of the game. Khan has one of the lowest of the modern era.

Does Khan have attributes that would trouble Floyd. Yes, he was lightening quick. Can he stick to a game plan for more than a few rounds, not get drawn in to pre fight barbs. Is his chin good enough. That’s before you realise Floyd is a generational talent and Khan on his best day wouldn’t beat him.

 

Khan has nothing for Mayweather besides speed and timing beats speed. After a few rounds Floyd would counter him at will. Khan just has no ring iq or defense. Even if his chances were higher there's nothing Khan has that would ever make me favor him over Floyd.

 

Then Floyd should have fought him. Question marks will forever remain.

 

I guess, but he's fought better opposition so at the end of the day it's a fun hypothetical to think about

 

Khan also never fought Cotto, Margo, Mosley, Pacquiao, Porter, Spence or Brook. He'd also be a massive underdog in each of those despite his hand speed.

The one fight I'd have liked to see Khan take was Bradley in a LWW unification, that would have been epic to watch.

 

The idea that Khan would beat Mayweather is ludicrous. Khan's speed troubles everyone but despite his edge in speed over everyone he's been timed and countered on a number of occasions resulting in him being spectacularly KO'ed.

Khan lacks the ring IQ to make his speed really count. We saw that as early in the Olympics when after winning a comfortable first round by getting off first and then moving to deny Kindelaan a noted counter puncher of some renown the opportunity to counter then took the fight to Kindelaan and opening himself up to be countered a trait we've seen him repeat in nearly every defeat as a pro. Against Mayweather we'd see the same thing no matter what success he has, he'll expose himself to be countered and then Mayweather the best counter puncher Khan will have ever faced will KO him.

Yes Mayweather clearly steered clear of Khan when the fight was being talked about probably because he knew he'd look bad early on but just because he showed reluctance to fight him doesn't mean he would lose to him. Tyson Fury clearly ducked David Price anyone think Price beats Fury? Obviously not with how their careers panned out and the same is true of Khan and Mayweather.