Bradley vs Khan.....

Watching the Devon fight, a few points hit home regarding a potential fight with Khan.

Bradley can fight from all distances, beit long range, mid range, inside, but not only can he do the aforementioned, he displays good defense whilst applying pressure, has also has a decent reach for a small guy imo.

Flip side........ Khan cannot fight inside, or from mid range imo. Infact because of Khan's inability to manipulate mid range, he does'nt use the angles percpetively enough imo, which is why when he attacks, he comes in straight a lot of the time. Now in normal circumstances, that could potentially allow the guy with the greater understanding of angles(Bradley), to exploit you, to fight from in the pocket, to edge closer to you, draw leads that he can slip inside, so he can counter, but its not as easy to do when the guy leading, does not throw single punches, or conventional punches, like a jab when you back him up. Khan doesn' use the jab that consistently when he's being backed up imo, he prefers to flit in and out with flurries/combo's, so hanging back looking to draw leads that you can work single counters off, might not work, cause not only does Khan put his punches together, he does it very quickly, so as you can imagine, countering a guy who is throwing fast flurries, punches in bunches, is not that easy, simply cause its harder to find that transition to punch in between(counter)his punches, not to mention, he is going to move after he's got off.

I think if Bradley hangs back, tries to counter from in the pocket the way he did against Devon at times, he might find he's spending too much time on defense, trying to fend of Khan's attacks, his combination's, and even though he might not get hit that much, he might get hit with the odd shot that could swing the round, plus, it will look like Amir Khan is dictating the pace whether he's landing or not.

Devon showed, at times, that when he started using more movement, and used his speed to get off first when Bradley was waiting, that as long as he was moving and! throwing in combination, that he would make it more difficult for Bradley to set up those single counters, cause even when he wasn't landing, if he was throwing in combination, he was keeping Bradley on the defense, fending off punches.

I think Bradley will have to get off first against Khan, cut the ring down, bang his body, exploit his footwork, lack of inside game, but because that will dictate that he closes distance quicker, he will run the risk of getting hit more, having said that, I do think he has enough defense NOT to walk into something even if he has to close distance that fast. I think People underestimate just how quick Kendal Holt is, also, Holt is good at bringing you you onto counter punchers, I dont think Amir is as adept at doing that to be honest.

I think it might come down to how Bradley starts the fight, whether he starts fast, and lets Khan put rounds on the bank, or whether he starts early, puts that body work in, makes Amir fight at a hot pace, if he does that I can see him winning, but if he lets himself get stuck behind the 8 ball, by letting Khan get off first, dictating, can see him getting outworked.

 

Khan lacks ring generalship imo, that's why he kept getting trapped by Maidana when under pressure.

 

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Cheers man.

 

Yeah, that's what I think.

When you put it into context, Bradley is much more well rounded, where as Khan is more one dimensional, just that his one dimension, happens to be very hard to negate.

You know I dont know Amir has that much! of a reach advantage over him, maybe an inch or 2, or something?