Mayweather/Khan

Evening all,

Long time lurker, first time poster.

Thought I'd start with a 'contentious' thread, so here goes.

Have you ever had a feeling, that you can't come up with a logical explaination to others about but you still think might be true?

I had one of these feelings around Amir Khan that if he had got to fight Mayweather that he would have given him a lot more problems than people might think he could or even I myself could actually make a case for.

I remember thinking that when Khan was calling him out (obviously for the payday) that he would never get the fight wether or not he deserved it (and there's a fair case for him not deserving it over others), and looking back I do remember getting the feeling that 'something' about fighting Khan kind of spooked Mayweather a little bit even though the outcome more than likely would have been a relatively easy Mayweather win anyway.

Maybe it was purely the blistering hand speed that Khan still had at that point that just made Mayweather a bit 'off' about considering the fight, not that he thought he'd lose as such (there's no reason for him to think that), but maybe that he thought it was 'possible' that he might not be able to control the fight as he would like to and that something unexpected might just happen.

Again, absolutely no logical reason I think this, just a feeling that's all.


Either about the above or any other feelings you've had where you just 'feel' that a lesser fighter might have been the undoing of a better one?

 

Thanks mate, good to be here.

Completely agree with your assesment of what would have likely happened.

I definitley think it would have been an interesting fight to see how each of them dealt with each other as the fight went on.

Shame it never happened in the end.

 

That's one of the only things about boxing as a sport that can sometimes frustrate.

There isn't really another sport where you have opposition in the same 'league' but never get to see them go up against each other.

 

I wouldn't he say he 'sucked' as such but I do agree he would get timed.

As I said this is just a thought specific to me, nobody else on the planet may have thought the same (in fact they probably didn't ) and I can't even explain it logically.

You must have looked at upcming fights and read what everybodies saying and thought to yourself "I'm probably on my own here, but I don't think this is going to pan out how everybody thinks it will" and then watched the fight and you've actually been right.