every time khan exchanges punches with another fighter he drops his hands, its a big mistake gavin rees made against kotelnik and khan will too. since he turned professional he has always done it and kotelnik will take advantage and KO him late in the fight.
4/1 Hills.....It was 6's on oddschecker. Went to the bank straight after i saw it to put more money down on it but was pretty disappointed to learn its 6/1 points,4/1 tko/ko
This is good to hear. Couple this with the MAB fight and people can't really complain after 2 genuine 50-50 fights (at least going into the fights they were.).
Rico, Sir James or whoever the **** you are, serious question. As you are a boxing fan, which fighters do you actually appreciate? because all I see coming from you is negativity (i'll make a guess, Joe Calzaghe)...not one positive post about anyone (glass jawed, glass hearted etc)
i think it's a mentality thing. when you know the guy is just there to spar and serve no other purpose than to keep you sharp, it's probably hard for khan to bring his A-game. plus the sparring partner usually goes all out to try and prove something to the established star. wasnt that long ago that khan was doing well in sparring against manny, a situation where the roles were reversed and khan was trying to prove himself against the big name fighter.
Kotelnik shouldn't be taken out early, unless it's cuts or a bull**** stoppage, the guy has been in with serious punchers at 140lbs. Khan can be wobbled by average level 130lbs uk fighters, this should equal a Kotelnik stoppage. Also Kotelnik can box, won a silver medal and has excellent experience boxing on the road. Khan has speed and youth on his side, perhaps height. Kotelnik has durability, experience and stamina on his side. He must realise he can take Khan out.
My thoughts are 1. Sparring means nothing; 2. He will take Kotelnik to school and KO him inside 8 rounds; 3. He needs to work on his in fighting, as this is his weakness, especially his movement going backwards; 4. The chin posters can say what they like, but if he beats Kotelnik he will be in possession of a world strap with massive promotion behind him; 5. His strengths of hand speed and outside offense are easily enough to beat Kotelnik, so long as he sticks to the game plan.
Interesting little tid bit about the sparring session that this thread is based on. Sky News interviewer asks Roach about what he thought of Khan's sparring session on monday (the one which is captured on the youtube video in the start of this thread): "well....er...i didn't like it. I don't want him getting hit" Sounds to me like the video wasn't a hoax....just an example of Amir's great defence. Although that said, a lot of the comments made by ESB posters about how fighters don't always perform their best in their last few sparring sessions has given me some hope. I also find Roach's insight about the gameplan quite reassuring. Here's to a decisive win for Amir and an awesome fight on Saturday! ;-) Below is the youtube interview with Roach [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCFspqR-Cw
You have to take into account that guy Khan is sparring is bigger and impressive handspeed. Kotelnik is much smaller and slower !
Dr.Roach talking about Khan drained at 135, and not even having a breakfast on the weigh in day, and saying 140 is Khan's natural weight. I have been pointing this out for months now that Khan was weight drained at 135 but only a few people agreed with me. Being drained also has an effect on your chin, here's one hoping his chin holds up better at his natural weight of 140, if it does improve so many fighters are in big big trouble, but lets get past Kotelnik first which is no easy fight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymCFspqR-Cw&feature=channel
Not rico. Dont know where sir james came from. Yes im a boxing fan. Fighters i "appreciate" are Kessler, Klitschko (both), RJJ (though he really needs to hang em up), Pacquiao, JMM... Dont know why you mention Calzaghe, a former fighter...yes, he was one of my favourites, along with Lewis, Benn, Eubank, Duran...
I'm really tempted to stick a 100 on Khan getting knocked down in the first round. 12/1 odds sound so sweet. Problem is, I know Kotelnik's not the most powerful puncher, and I would say that Khan's gonna be more cautious but honestly, the way he's going on what with wearing a crown and looking like a twat, something tells me he isn't going to be patient at all and is gonna try and go for the knockout. He'll get caught, but I feel it won't be in the first round.
what i dont get about the talk of him being weight drained is the fact that it was never really talked about as an excuse after the prescott fight. normally that's the first excuse to come out if a fighter gets knocked out badly and shows no punch resistance at all. you'd think they'd wait to see how khan takes a punch at this weight before talking about this ****.