Khan "Team Floyd backed out last minute!"

true about his ring IQ , Khan can't adapt.

 

Well according to Mayweather fanaticos around here, its all about skill.
Physical attributes and age dont mean squat, just go watch Kovalev vs Hopkins. :blood

 

Glad Mayweather chose Maidana over that terror lover.

Hope Manny picks Bradley and khan is shunted once again.

 

He choose Maidana because he just had lots of exposure beating Broner for the WBA ww title and then you've got Khan who has been doing nothing at WW except running his mouth and looking vulnerable

 

:deal

 

Yeah but Khan isn't Kovalev is he?

 

I think Floyd would figure Khan out by the 4th round.

I mean, if Garcia could figure Khan out, Floyd should be able to even quicker.

The problem with Khan is that he's predictable. He doesn't mix it up. That's why Garcia and Algieri were able to figure him out.

 

Khan has issues when he's forced to think to much, and can't just throw caution to the wind. All the speed or power advantages go out the window when he's csught inbetween punches.

 

In terms of Ring IQ, it'd be like Stephen Hawking against pre-surgery Charlie Gordon (From Flowers For Algernon).

 

It is about skill, but also about styles. We have seen so many times when a fighter with lessor reach or a fighter that has to come and get rangier fighter no matter how great they are it is s struggle, many times that results the boxer who has the speed a d career long success of out boxing his opponents , not getting hit, in this fight vs reach a jab speed etc the either lose or have to stop the opponent. Boxing the way they have for so long is not going to get it many times vs a disciplined fighter who uses their jab, footwork, and changes cadence of his/her punches.

Leonard / hearns
Mosley / Forest
Gamboa Crawford
Rousey /holm
Tyson /Douglass

Just to name a few- true many will point to apparent loss of focus for Tyson Douglas. That could be true, but he still showed up and the strategy that night was effective and was in line with what we see time and time again. That fighter with shorter reach has to get past the jab and do serious damage on the opponent or it could be a long night


Mayweather as skilled as he is, has not faced a hearns , forest etc. Diego had shorter reach.

DLH had equal reach but was clearly at end of his career. I believe Amir reach is equal to floyd's. When you combine that with height (a little bit taller) reach, speed, his style it COULD make for a stylistic nightmare for Floyd. He could have to walk through jabs and walk down khan a stop him, in order to win if Khan remained disciplined.

Yes khan is easy to hit, has been exposed as having not the best chin. Yes Floyd has best right hand counter in the business. But it has not hurt anyone in years. His punch output in this type of fight could haunt him.

 

Khan's footwork is inferior to Floyd's.

Floyd makes his opponents lower their output.

 

Correct - but this has been vs fighters with shorter reach. Reach, jab speed plays a major factor into the style a fight takes and many times the outcome.

Floyd counter punching abilities with pinpoint accuracy, timing is all time, but so have others been. Look at Leonard, Gamboa , benefit, young Mosley, sweet pea. Vs fighters with equal or shorter reach they dominated. Except for Ray Duran the first fight. Even then he willingly slugged it out. Move them up vs reach things change. Hearns,Crawford, hearns and Leonard for beating Benitez , DLH beating whitacker,,,

Khan if he pumped his jab, changed his cadence, used lateral movement behind the jab, could force money to come to him. He has the reach and speed to do so. Totally dismantled Judah from the beginning. No Judah isn't s mayweather but speed wise early in fights he is just as fast. He was actually totally beating money through 4.

again khan has lots of flaws, peak money that beat Diego imo beats khan easily, even though he still hasn't fought reach. Many times reach forces a counter puncher to have to become more offensive and open up and get hit more. Maybe that's what we never saw Mayweather vs morales, forest , margarito, williams etc.

 

Floyd would be the aggressor and Khan would be screwed! Floyd coming forward and getting off first is a nightmare when he does it....he doesn't do it a whole bunch but he shows flashes of it when he has to in fights and those rounds he usually wins hands down.

 

Stylistically Maidana is a harder match up for PBF than Khan is.:deal Khan is a boxer PBF's whole style especially his defense is based on defeating a boxer like Khan. PBF in short is a stylistic nightmare for Khan because he can beat Khan at his own game. Only a fool would think Khan has the ability to outbox PBF especially when considering how flawed he is.

 

Floyd could counter Khan's jab.

The reason we never saw Floyd fight Morales is because Floyd had to practically kill himself to make the 130 weight limit.

Margarito would have been target practice for Floyd. And in the case of Williams, reach means nothing if you don't use it, and Williams didn't use his reach.

It's my opinion that the Floyd from the Marquez fight to the Guerrero fight easily beats Khan. And I mean dominates him.