Amir khan's style was tailor made to take floyd apart

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  1. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    Silver champion....lol
     
  2. Darni187

    Darni187 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    That's the WBC for you lol
     
  3. box33

    box33 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Far out your lucky you got to go there, heard it's still the same price for entry all these years later, did you ever see or run into Pacquiao at all?
     
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  4. Darni187

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    box33 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    So true, especially the part about him having a great IQ, quite the opposite with Khan the overzealous chap.
     
  6. box33

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    You reminded me just of how big of a Cherry picker Danny was for all those years & how him & his father didn't want to entertain the Khan rematch it wasn't until him losing against Keith Thurman that he deflated his stance on avoiding fighters, infact it took a long time even just to get him in there first with Keith & again later down the road with Porter.
     
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  7. Caliboxing

    Caliboxing Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Khan could possibly do well in the first 6 rounds but would get taken apart in the 2nd half. He had issues implementing a full fight plan and was usually let down by his ability to carry out a full strategy, chin, or confidence. He doesn't have what it takes to win this fight, and it's very likely he gets ko'd way before the 8th round.
     
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  8. Salty Dog

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    I don't think it takes that long. On his best day Khan wins most of the early rounds (maybe even with some encouragement from Floyd), gets excited about his success, makes a mistake and then gets counted out. 6 or 7 rounds, I reckon.
     
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  9. ashishwarrior

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    Think shayne singleton held that belt or the one just below
    I mean come on
    All the greats surely held said belt
     
  10. turbotime

    turbotime Hall Of Famer Full Member

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    Yes the great Singleton did have it - my bad.
     
  11. chacal

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  12. zelky

    zelky Well-Known Member Full Member

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    Khan had no legit footwork. Always overswung/off balance throwing combos. The leakiest defence.

    Got picked apart so easily by Crawford it was laughable.

    But he had the ability to beat Mayweather?!? rofl.

    Seriously. There is some serious DNSAB going on. Or just blind hate. Even if I hated Floyd with a passion...I would never pick someone as basic as Khan to beat him.
     
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  13. Brighton bomber

    Brighton bomber Loyal Member Full Member

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    I'm aware he was Silver champion after he beat Alexander in late 2014. So yeah he was ranked number 1 for Mayweather's WBC title in 2015 but Mayweather fought Pacquiao and then Berto in 2015 and then was basically inactive until he fought McGregor and retired.

    Mayweather's last WBC mandatory I guess would of been Guerrero as he was the WBC interim champion, so yeah Mayweather went 2 years without facing a mandatory. Khan was named mandatory by the WBC in Dec 2014 after beating Alexander. But after Mayweather beat Berto he vacated the WBC belt so Khan wasn't even mandatory for Mayweather for a full year, hence why he never was mandated to fight Mayweather by the WBC.

    Khan really had one chance to fight Mayweather and he blew it when he declined the Broner fight and allowed Maidana a guy he had beaten to take his place while he was inactive and was just expecting the shot at Mayweather to fall into his lap.
     
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  14. turbotime

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    I ran into him really quick. Freddie ran a real tight camp though, got to meet Toney, Vince Phillips was training with castijello at the time. The prices aren’t that bad at all really, sadly we don’t get Roach much anymore
     
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  15. DJN16

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    Yeah that's most likely. Older Floyd would take his time. Young Floyd does it earlier