Khan Took Canelo fight after he watched Lara expose Canelo.

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No, Khan falls out of the game-plan because he gets flustered and his instincts aren't good.

One instance is the Collazo fight, which I think may have been his best performance. He was throwing some good combinations, not his arm flurries, but more deliberate combinations (creating and exploiting openings). He was also putting some leverage in those combos, particularly the body shots that dropped Collazo late. He was throwing a nice double right hand. He was showing better defensive maneuvers, countering, and I remember ducking some shots early on, although they were telegraphed by Collazo. But later in the fight, he was falling back into bad habits, it seems like his instinct is to hold on defense or simply to try to use a high guard, which several fighters have broken. He held so much and pushed Collazo's neck down so much that he got a point taken away. Paulie Malignaggi was commentating and pointed out that after he got the point taken away, Collazo was able to hit him with some shots because Khan wasn't able to hold. He had the point deduction on his mind, and couldn't hold. He probably had forgotten the defensive moves he had been using earlier, and got hit.

This was just one instance and he dominated that fight, but those kind of weaknesses showed up again when he struggled against Algieri. Algieri of all people tried to turn into a pressure fighter and almost beat Khan, because Khan gets flustered out of his game and resorts to his instincts and gets all sloppy. Someone like Mayweather is such a smart and technically sound boxer that it's seemingly ingrained in him to do the right things in the ring if someone is trying to fluster him.

Khan has shown time and time again how his actual skill level and ring smarts are not impressive at the top level. He's just fast, and that has caused him to be more overrated than any other fighter ever on boxing forums.

Canelo isn't anything special either, he's a good solid fighter with nice counterpunching skills, and that is more than enough to beat the smaller, chinny Khan.

 

Where do you people come from??? Last time I checked Angulo lost and almost had his face broken!

 

Clearly clueless lol

 

This is why I'm concerned about this fight - Khan taking notes from Lara and Mayweather.

he's going to run, hold, not engage, and stink out the fight....and claim props for not getting knocked out and being "screwed" by the judges.

Live to fight another day. Not really interested.

 

I don't know if trying to "box" Alvarez is exactly the key to beating him, I mean the people can only point to a few fights. nobody had beaten or even dropped Trout at that point, nobody has looked good vs Lara, and Mayweather has beaten every top fighter you can name. Saying that I think a lot if his "struggles" are overblown.

Khan's best chance is playing defense, but he a) isn't good enough defensively & b) to his credit has too much fighting heart. At some point a fight will happen and Khan won't last the size while there isn't that big a deal to me but only time will tell.

One question though nobody's seems to be able to answer, who are all these small fighters Canelo is supposedly picking on? In 6 yes there's Lopez and Khan where does this stigma come from?

 

7-5 isn't exposed

Fans wanted Canelo to fight Lara because people thought Lara would beat him.

Khan fights nothing like Lara and isn't even slick so how are they in any way related?

 

Mexico is always looking for a new Superstar. From the past few years it was either Chavez jr or Canelo and Canelo has performed slightly better. Obviously Canelo is going to be hyped a bit. Don't take it personal.