A night of unprofessionalism

McCloskey's team also said they would have knocked Amir, the world champion, out late - Much more disrespect there.

McCloskey looked in the fight? Which part did he look 'in' the fight?

 

He was in the ring.

 

I love the way the McCloskey fans are continuing to pick and criticize Khan's post-fight comments, but completely ignore their man's claims of.....Khan was tiring, he's not world class, we were gonna KO him later on, etc.

The only thing McCloskey did well, was make Khan miss. But as we all know, this alone doesn't win you fights. And even then, his was slowly getting tagged more and more. A real shame. I thought he was gonna grab this fight by the neck, and take it to Khan. Instead, he applies a very negative gameplan and loses every minute of every round.

 

Spot on. What a shame! Amir should have picked Murray or Prescott. He needed to dazzle. At least they'd actually punch back.

 

I don't think he needed to dazzle. He just needed to learn. I'm glad he picked McCloskey, because some of the things he experienced against him, he'll likely experience against Bradley (good head and upperbody movement).

People treat Khan as this finished product who just needs to look good. Nonsense. He's still learning, he's still making mistakes, and we shouldn't have such high expectations of him just yet.

 

We should if he's about to face Tim Bradley and seemingly is preoccupied with how he's ranked p4p. To say we shouldn't have high expectations of his performance levels, particularly against a guy he was supposed to be levels above, and then expect him to go and fight Tim Bradley and do well is disrespecting Bradley as much as anything.

 

True, but this was Amir's last fight in the UK for at least four fights, so you'd want Amir to look good, but I agree, the head movement problems McCloskey posed him will stand him in good stead (hopefully) when going into a Bradley fight.

 

Bradley hasn't looked very impressive in his last two outings either. He looked fairly standard against Abregu and his fight with Devon looked just as sloppy as Amir's fight with Paul.

 

The difference is that Alexander was a top 3 light-welter.

 

Based on rankings, yes.

Do I think he is/was? No.

The Urango fight was close (I think one judge had it up for Urango up till the KO). Then goes on to fight Kotelnik, and got beat and then fights Bradley where he also got dominated.

He doesn't have the akwardness of a Southpaw fighter. Kotelnik timed and countered the southpaw, easily, which you wouldn't expect. Normally it's the other way round.

 

I had him ranked No.4 at the time. I don't think you could rank him any lower than that really.

 

By high expectations, I'm referring to those people who said....

....Khan will blitz Maidana in a 12-round boxing lesson......despite being a very chinny fighter, who had shown no evidence of defensive mastery that would allow him to go 12 without being tagged. And when Khan eventually was tagged, we were all shocked to see it happen.

....Khan will take out McCloskey in the first few rounds......despite never having to deal with someone as awkward and as defensively minded as McCloskey.

And I'm not expecting Khan to do that well against Bradley. Neither should anyone else. Why? Because they're going to be disappointed in certain aspects like the above two fights, and then complain about Khan being overrated.

That's not disprecting to Bradley.

 

He took it in the ring.