Amir KHAN beats MAB by technical decision. VOTE RESULTS!

Yeah but he's a TERRIBLE fighter, have you seen his fight with Khan?, I'm sure you did. The man can barely fight and he still managed to land clean.

 

Very good point. This fight is really intriguing and I keep switching on my pick. Im back to MAB now...surely he cant be that shot? Khan is still very amateurish.

The thing that gets me though is Roach confidence in Khan, Khan must be quite impressive and Roach must know something if he thinks Khan can beat MAB. At the same time, Roach has probably only ever seen Khan spar with headgear & fat sparring gloves where he doesnt taste real power.

 

I am voting based on heart and not head. Age and size will beat MAB but if Khan did win, it would still be good.

 

im so torn on this fight, cant really pick one khan should win but that chin means barrera should win

 

I'm also torn on this one. Kahn is essentially a good kid with lots of talent & blinding speed but I can only see him winning if MAB is a shadow of the fighter he once was. The last thing I want to see is a legend like Barrera shuffling around the ring being taken apart by a 22(?) year old. What another great weekend of boxing. ITV4 then Setanta then Sky:happy

Do we know who the ref is yet? I also don't want to see another of those suspect early stoppages that sometimes occur in Warren fights.

MAB stoppage rds 6-8.

 

for khan to win this fight barrera must have a really bad night look at the second fight with manny its an illegal blow on the break but look at the effect it has on manny. khan will not take barreras left hook the punch khan is most vunarable to and also barreras bast punch

 

If Barrera is gonna win I think it`ll have be early on in the fight. The longer it goes the better chance Khan has of nicking it on points.

All I keep seeing though is Hatton breaking down Castillo.
I`m pretty sure Barrera will have more left in him than Castillo did, but you never know.
Seeing Barrera in training though, he definetly looks like a man on a mission.

I think/hope Barrera will stop Khan inside 4 rounds.:happy

 

i don't know how shot barrera is. if he is indeed shot khan should tko him somewhere down the line or win a wide ud. khan should also hold a significant speed advantage (at least now). but with khan you always have the chin-questionmark - what happens if barrera solidly? i'm undecided yet, but i need to make a guess for the rumsfeld prediction league...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250eUMHvEFQ

Don King steals the show!

 

Don King is so much more charismatic of a promoter than Arum. I can actually listen to everything he say.

 

Both Khan and Barrera made weight, but MAB just barely, completely naked. Both looked drained. Barrera was cheered, there were some boos for Khan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc6HxptgXio

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNPspCwaiVw

 

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Thanks for vid:good:good

 

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Speaking of Freddy's confidence, I don't really think he's that confident, all he's doing is talking positive about his fighter. If you want REAL confidence take a look at interviews with Roach before Pacquiao's first fight with Barrera, THAT'S where Roach showed serious confidence. In this fight he's just his normal self, to be honest he actually reminds me of his comments/views before Tyson's fight with Williams(which was also the second fight he trains Mike for). All Roach said was that he's sharing information with Pacquiao from his experience with Barrera and that experience came with Pacquiao in his corner and this is Pacquiao we're talking about, Amir nowhere close to that and not even 0.01%. Roach was straight forward, he shared ideas/experience and now it's time for Khan to apply.

As I said before man, Roach might have done a masterful job with Pacquiao but have you seen how long the process was to see Pacquiao progress and transform from a one-dimensional fighter to a multi-dimensional fighter with ATG abilities but again this is Pacquiao we're talking about, he's a once in 20 lifetimes type of fighter with the dedication and strong mentality. Pacquiao might have been KO'd in the past but it wasn't anything close to what happened to Khan recently who just took his very first step and it wasn't a major step, not even close to being a major step.

A few months of training with Roach does nothing minor let alone major for this fight. Khan went life and death with SHOT journeymen like Gomez and others and nearly lost against Limmond if it wasn't for a TIRED Limmond hurting him and running out of gas to finish. Please note, I said an already TIRED Limmond hurt him with not much steam behind his punch and it was a punch on the temple too. He was also floored and looked terrible against a Mexican fighter who was a journeyman in his prime and was shot against Khan in Gomez. This is a shot Barrera we're talking about and a shot Barrera is BY FAR and not even CLOSE the biggest challenge Khan has taken in comparison to who he already fought.

My view is this about Khan, he just never successfully became a pro, the way he fights he's still in the amateur days and the progress to make him a pro was a failure in my opinion. All could change Saturday night but that's my view. It's definitely better for boxing if Khan wins as more exciting fights await and the competition in the weight divisions he's in are TOO dangerous and TOO serious and if he can't handle a past his best Barrera then he won't handle anyone worth mentioning. This is Barrera we're talking about too, he won't sit down for NO ONE and will be fight regardless of the situaiton, no matter how shot he MIGHT be he will be there in Khan's face unless his ability to take a punch fades, which I won't bet on because Khan hasn't really proven serious punching ability against opposition worth mentioning.

Khan's defense is also very poor in my opinion, he just gets carried away too easily in fights and leaves his self wide open, maybe it's his nature or just his way of fighting. That's also an advantage for Barrera, more free openings to take advantage of. I also don't think that a few months with Roach will mean we're going to see a defensive master in there, that's what they said before he fought this ***an guy who was imitating a walking coffin in there and STILL he was able to throw and LAND on Khan believe it or not. If Oisin ***an was able to there's no damn reason to believe Barrera won't and it's only Khan's ability to take a punch that could change this. If he CAN handle Barrera's power then he can cruise his way to a decision and I really don't expect him to.