He didn't outbox Peterson and that's Bradley's blueprint for beating Khan too. His boxing can't survive 12 rounds of pressure, mentally he does not have the concentration to maintain the discipline needed to keep a pressure fighter at bay. His career best effort at doing this was against Maidana, but Khan has slipped since that fight and doesn't have Alex Ariza 'assisting' his 'training' now like he did back then...
Khan defeated Peterson , Straight up. 114-111 He was outworked, outlanded , and outjabbed. Peterson on Steroids still could not get the job done. He got rocked in the fight and suffered a knock down quickly in the opening round something DSG couldn't do.
I'm not gonna get wrapped up in debating imaginary score cards, he officially lost the fight. And as for out-whatevering Peterson (not sure why you felt the need to type outlanded (sic) and outjabbed (sic) as a jab is a punch but I'm guessing you wanted that linguistically flowing triplet), he got docked points because the only way he could deal with a pressure fighter was by pushing his opponent away, which is out-breakingtherulesofboxing. And Khan has regressed since then, so Bradley would be more than capable of repeating Khan's loss to Peterson.
Yeah he lost officially, but judges every now and then do get fights wrong. This was one of those fights. Not to mention the ref was just horrible.
Khan... styles make fights... Bradley is an all round great fighter but his height & reach disadvantage with lack of power make him useless against Khan. Khan dominates the first 6 rounds, Bradley wins the later rounds where Khan has breathers and some late ones but I see it going 8-4 Khan. Fight should have happened in 2011 to unify 140 but Bradley somewhat wisely avoided it...just as Khan wisely avoids Brook intill he has no better options. 147 Khan Vs 147 Bradley is a different matter...hard to grasp where they both stand currently...would be nice if Khan Bradley could get made for the end of the year if Khan's team start negiotating with Arum if Khan gets a J.Vargas fight this summer and wins. People act like Bradley isn't susceptible to fading but that's exacly how he lost the 2nd or was it 3rd? Pac fight so badly...he had MENTAL and physical fatique...he gave up even though he was actually drawing on the scorecards mid fight...Couldn't handle the pressure of having to box at such a high level even though lower workrate Pac made him crack. The longer fighter almost always has the advantage in a high fatique situation starts getting their head jabbed off but knowing Timothy he would make it very ugly at that point lots of jumping in wildly and clinching.
I'm picking Khan. Bradley lacks power and Khan would make mince meat of Bradley in moments...I think it'll be an 8-4 (with Khan getting knocked down) type of fight, but extremely gruelling. Khan however is semi-retired and looks past prime to me. Having said that, I think Bradley's truly past his prime after the 3rd Pac fight.
Thank god, some one has sense,looooool, Bradley struggled with prvodnikov, he drawed with chaves, he can't finish worth a lick, Thurman beats him, Khan beats him , brook beats him, spence beats him, Lord knows what TC was doing to him in sparring
this fight actually can still happen and maybe should. but once upon a time this was the fight in boxing. an once again it could not deliver it to us.
If Chris Algieri can repeatedly buckle Khan's knees, then Bradley probably does the same or worse. Close fight that favors Bradley imo. Khan struggles against pressure fighters who have high work-rates.