khan vs witter

Maybe. It's a good domestic fight could be a very big promotion over here. Witter would really test Khan out and I'm not sure if Warren would be willing to put Khan in with someone like Witter yet. Let's see how Junior does against Alexander and if he calls Khan out as well. I'd like to see the fight, though.

 

V good match is Witter can get back the WBC belt back.

 

It's not very marketable to the American networks. I think Team Khan will probably be more focused on that market now.

 

I think its more so than any fight thats not agaisnt Bradley or a Marquee guy.

 

I can't really see what Khan's team would want with Witter. He's not big money, he doesn't hold a genuine belt (the fight with Alexander is for a paper title) and he might just spark Khan out. Witter has pretty decent power and we all know about Khan's chin. I hope these rumours about a fight with Morales aren't true, but if they are I wouldn't be surprised to see him go for Malignaggi next (a name fighter who can't punch his way out of a wet paper bag). Hatton is a possibility as well, though there's a good chance he can spark Khan, it would be a huge payday and Khan's people will be thinking Hatton is on the downside of his career. I will give him massive props if he fights and beats Bradley, Holt, Torres, Witter, Maidana, Ortiz or Hatton (if the latter was to come back looking anything like he once did). As I have said on other threads, worthy fighter though he is, Kotelnik was a good style matchup for Khan. I have always said he has everything he needs to be a world class fighter except a chin. The questions won't be truly answered for me until he beats a world class junior welter with some power.

 

[quote="TKO";4522203]I can't really see what Khan's team would want with Witter. He's not big money, he doesn't hold a genuine belt (the fight with Alexander is for a paper title) and he might just spark Khan out. Witter has pretty decent power and we all know about Khan's chin. I hope these rumours about a fight with Morales aren't true, but if they are I wouldn't be surprised to see him go for Malignaggi next (a name fighter who can't punch his way out of a wet paper bag). Hatton is a possibility as well, though there's a good chance he can spark Khan, it would be a huge payday and Khan's people will be thinking Hatton is on the downside of his career. I will give him massive props if he fights and beats Bradley, Holt, Torres, Witter, Maidana, Ortiz or Hatton (if the latter was to come back looking anything like he once did). As I have said on other threads, worthy fighter though he is, Kotelnik was a good style matchup for Khan. I have always said he has everything he needs to be a world class fighter except a chin. The questions won't be truly answered for me until he beats a world class junior welter with some power.[/quote]

What you on about Witter wont sell? It will sell more than the Kotelnik fight.The WBC belt is the most prestigious belt to have out of all the belts.

I agree that Witter would be too dangerous for Warrens liking as Warren kept his last golden goose at light welter well away from Witter.

 

The prestige of the WBC strap doesn't need to be highlighted- if it were down to the belt alone then the fight would be made as soon as the winner of Witter-Alexander has their arm raised. The only reason this fight won't happen is if Mr Warren doesn't want it to. I'm not too sure that Roach is gonna be a fan of Warren's low risk- high reward way of doing business, though.

 

witter is all wrong for khan. he can bang a bit and is awkward. they need to keep feeding amir slow robots like kotelnik

 

Maybe just about but that's not difficult. I would like to see the PPV figures for the Kotelnik fight. My guess is they weren't very high. Any buys would have been solely off Khan's back not an unknown (in the UK) German-based Ukrainian. Witter has never been a PPV fighter and with all due respect to him he can't draw flies to a live fight. Maybe a few Brit hardcore fans would watch him but that's about it. As I said, not big money. I doubt Khan made hige cash for the Kotelnik fight eithet when you consider that Kotelnik must have been paid a fair slice to bring his title over here voluntarily.

You can't just say a belt is the most prestigious you have to look at the fighter who holds it, the fighter they won it from and their situation within the division. And when a title is vacant and won from an unproven fighter (assuming for a moment that Witter beats Alexander) whilst there is another champ out there who convincingly bested him a year ago and another who is the real champ, it is worth little more than the belt I hold my trousers up with.

It's not even comparable to the situation with Hatton. Hatton fought fighters Witter could only dream of being. Witter would be the best opponent Khan ever fought. It would not surprise me to see young Amir sparked out in this one, but then again you could say the same about any junior welter who can actually bang a bit.

 

Khan/Witter would sell just as well if not better than say Khan/Maidana Khan/Torres.

I am sure we agree that Khan isn`t PPV material yet but a unification bout with Witter should he beat Alexander would sell well and even more so if Hatton was awaitng the winner.


That said I dont think Warren would want Khan to go anywhere near Witter as it is too high a risk fight for Amir.

Regardless of who the other champions are in any division the WBC has always been the most prestigious belt to hold.

 

Its only an educated guess but I suspect that if Witter beats Alexander he will be looking for a re-match with Bradley rather tha taking on Khan

 

If it were 2 happen id go with witter by k.o b4 round 6

 

I would have thought that was the logical assumption with them fighting on the same bill, but Bradley would be the one dictating the terms this time. If Witter beats the undefeated (though unproven) Alexander you'd say he's got a fair shout for a rematch. Bradley would hold all the cards and be the man dictating the terms this time though. My respect for Witter would go up if he took and won that fight.

I can see him getting tempted by Khan if not though, he probably thinks he has an excellent shot in that one and I'd tend to agree with him.

 

I'm sure it would. My point was that those are the fights that Warren is likely to avoid on Khan's behalf against dangerous big punchers who don't sell particularly well. Hence the rumours about him defending against a shot-to-sh1t Morales a few months after beating an equally shot Barrera.

Khan is already a PPV fighter, Kotelnik and Barrera were both PPV fights, though I personally didn't pay for either of them (I was at the Barrera fight and caught Kotelnik at my mate's). It's a sad indictment of the state of the game when a card like that gets put on PPV, but he is a PPV fighter. An accusation which has never been levelled at Witter. I think if he was going to take on an all-British fight it would be Hatton, what with the state of the Hitman these days he probably has an at least equal chance of winning and would earn far more money out of it.

As for the WBC belt, my previous opinion hasn't changed, when Pacquiao is seen by all and sundry as the real champ and Bradley bested him clearly as year or so ago it would be hard to take JW seriously as the world champ irrespective of what strap he holds. Now if he were to rematch and beat Bradley, that would be a whole different ball game. I wouldn't rule it out based on the Holt fight either. Holt had the tools to win that fight, he just let Bradley outhustle him.