Khan V Marquez

think marquez will knock him out in the later rounds while behind on the scorecards. bit like juan diaz fight

 

:deal

And this is Khan's and GBP's aim, set Khan up in the U.S.

 

No real problem with this fight.

 

he is fighting marquez because hes a name who also carries a resonable threat

were as maidana has bassicly little more than a punchers chance and he isnt a name

remember fist fight in the us gotta be a big name

 

hope he comes bk at welter. 140 wud kill him. he could fight cotto:bbb

 

Cotto would maul Hatton IMO. Let him give Malignaggi another go. I know PM wants the fight, and Ricky would probably love to shut him up.

 

probly lee beard for hatton and heard something bout manny stewart a while back

 

Going to repost something from another thread:

Regardless of how fast Khan is, or how small and old JMM is, the very last style I would want to put Khan in the ring with right now if I was his management (or Khan himself) would be a master counterpuncher. At this stage of his development, Khan is simply too predictable and linear. He showed vast improvement with Kotelnik and Salita, but 1) they weren't really a threat to him, as Kotelnik didn't have the power to threaten him and Salita wasn't in his class, and 2) Khan's style and movements are there to be countered.

Right now, Khan is consistently, almost robotically following a pattern: step straight in, throw a 1-2, (maybe add another jab or two for safety) step straight back out, step to the side, repeat. The main time Khan does something different is if he thinks he has you in trouble, (then he'll throw a multi-punch barrage instead of a 1-2 before stepping out) or if you're determined to advance, in which case Khan will jab and circle. (And too often he's flicking with that jab too).

Those patterns are entirely too easy to guess for a top notch counterpuncher. Khan may be able to overwhelm JMM with speed, but it bears noting that Pacquiao could only briefly overwhelm JMM with pure speed, and he had to turn it up to 100% to do it. Khan would be banking on the proposition that he can overwhelm Marquez with speed for the whole fight, and that at a weight class above 135 Khan's power will be too much for JMM. (And it's possible that this combination will be too much for Marquez, Mayweather's blows seemed to be just at about the limit of what Marquez could handle.)

Personally, I think it's a big gamble. Having Roach in the corner is a major help, but every time time Khan steps in to JMM and goes to throw like he does over and over here to Kotelnik:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nykhkiL5ah0[/ame]


JMM will be waiting for him with a trap and will have something like this set up:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0c2lXEpFxk[/ame]


If this fight goes through, I think it'll be tougher than Khan's promoters or his fans might think.

Having said that, I. like Kirk, am a little disappointed in this fight, as it's clearly a business thing and an attempt to put Khan over with the US crowd, rather than making the biggest, or best, or most competitive fight available. Promoters have done more to harm boxing than anything else...

 

he mite do, he mite not. its boxing

no point fighting malignaggi. hatton schooled him

imo i think hatton could have more to offer than people give him credit for but think 140 would be a no go:bbb