An Alternate Take On Khan's Decision To Sign With GBP

Sssssh You !

 

Sorry Paul

 

Lets see how far this kid from Bolton can go?

 

Australia ?

 

What you on about now Shirl?

 

Roach would love if Maidana somehow loses in his next bout so they can cross his name off the list.

Roach stated - fight on the same card a couple of times then have the winners face eachother.

 

in other words, we are ducking Miadana becuase Khan has no chin.

 

I don't see how anyone can have a problem with Khan signing on with GBP, except for Warren. And it's not like Warren's the most loyal in the world himself.

Khan-Paulie isn't a bad fight, just not an especially exciting one. I'd have preferred the Maidana fight, but at least Khan's going in with a guy who has the sort of skills to challenge him. He's light hitting, but has a great chin, good skills and could make Khan look foolish. He'll learn from it, get an HBO WCB date (or a BAD one), and gain some profile in the US.

Unless Khan's going to fight Maidana in the UK, it's worth absolutely nothing. The Yanks don't care about Maidana, same as they don't really care about Ortiz. They certainly don't care about Khan. But Paulie's got a name, he's coming off a good win, and he's looking better than he has done since Cotto battered him. It's a smart fight for Khan to make against a guy that could possibly beat him.

Maidana's ridiculously overrated since beating Ortiz, who was overrated himself. Not a single one of them is proven on the world stage, but Khan is the only one with a world class win on his resume, against Kotelnik.

Warren had Khan facing binmen and street sweepers and he looked unremarkable beating them. Limond, a shot Gomez and Gary St Claire (who looked completely disinterested) were his best opponents in this period. He lost to Prescott, then he came back and beat a shot, tiny Barrera. His best opponents, near their primes, are the thouroughly unremarkable Kotelnik and Limond.

Let's not pretend he is doing Khan any favours. You expect soft touches for a fighter early on but, with his amateur experience, he should have been fighting better guys sooner. Malignaggi will be the best guy he's faced and, if GBP are making that happen, it's a good thing.

I think he's made the right choice.

 

*delete*

 

Rpb exactly mate, i hate this 'if it dont make $$$, it dont make sense/ high risk and low reward' philosophy. Fact remains that Maidana earned his shot at the title way before Khan (with warrens £££) muscled in. Khan pushed his way in the line and should let Maidana get his chance.

Kotelnik gave Khan a chance and Khan should do so with Maidana. A champion fights anybody,anytime,anyplace imo. All this 'khan is still young' **** does my nut in, he should not have fought for the title if he cannot defend it against all opposition. Salita was mandatory and Khan fought him, why not Maidana.

 

If Maidana accepts step aside money now, and Khan faces Paulie, what then? Is that wrong? Maidana will still get his shot as mandatory against either Paulie of Amir.

If Amir beats Paulie, and Maidana fights on the undercard against someone decent, then that fight gets built. That means more money, more exposure and more upside for Khan AND Maidana. Seems reasonable.

If Khan drops the belt after Paulie, then I'll agree with you.

 

:nono He got his shot against Kotelnik and ****ing blew it...then 2 fights later he is in line for another shot at the strap. I would say that the Argentinian is getting an extremely fair crack of the whip

 

Because he is earning his chance pal!!!

Im not saying khan is ducking yet, im just saying it will be a crying shame if he doesn't allow maidana a crack and drops belt. Im with threethirteen on this.

 

Earning his chance by beating Ortiz (fair enough) and then a Panamanian journeyman? Marcos was fighting a WBA eliminator in the fight after his defeat against Kotelnik for ****s sake...this shows to me that either the division is as thin as ****, or the WBA for some reason have a real hard-on for Maidana

 

Tbf you have an extremely valid point, however your point is not valid to my argument, im simply stating khan should fight good solid opposition that have not been chosen by himself. If maidana was getting another crack at kotelnik id agree with you in saying he has had his shot and give someone else a crack.