Khan told BBC Sport: "I was giving Manny tough, tough sparring. He learnt a lot off me as well as me from him." This content is protected This content is protected . "The sparring over there was tougher than a fight and probably tougher than the fight I'm having on Saturday. I can't wait to get in there and show what I've learnt in the last six to eight weeks. This content is protected "I've trimmed down a lot of muscle, kept my speed, and I'm going to go back to my old self again - hit and move, hit and move, don't stand there, don't be flat-footed, stay on my toes. This content is protected This content is protected
Khan's jab, in fact, has been the talk of the gym since he arrived a month ago - and Roach is delighted to have Khan sparring with Pacquiao ahead of his monumental showdown with De La Hoya. 'It just happened by accident,' Roach says. 'I was working the mitts with him and I saw how fast he really was with that jab and I said, you know what, it will do a world of confidence for him, to get in with Pacquiao and hold his own - which I expected him to do, I wasn't sure - but he did better than hold his own. So I was very happy. 'Manny appreciates the quality of the sparring, and there's a little bit of an ego thing, always in boxing. Amir usually gets the best of Manny at the beginning, and Manny usually gets the best at the end, because he wears him down a little bit. But Manny's learning how to deal with the speed of the jab - and this is the important part for Manny - and Amir is holding his own with the world champion and doing well with him.' Pacquiao agrees. 'Too fast!' he says of Khan's left lead. 'He is going to be a great fighter, believe me.'
Come on ishy...give it a rest. The boy's 21. He's no PhD either. Khan's got a good, fast jab. He was asked to keep firing that in Pacman's face and he did. Pacman practiced how to avoid it and deal with it. Sparring is just that - it's not a fight. Pacman didn't practice his offence against Khan in sparring. He practiced his defence - everyone knows Khan's got an effective offence; I'm sure it was decent sparring for Pacman; he let him come in with impunity and tried to work on his defence - so, of course Khan felt as if he was doing well.:good
Distasteful? A sparring session with Pacquiao is tougher than fighting ***an in anyone's book. I don't know why everyone seems to think he's a huge prospect here on the British forum. Most of Khan's previous opponents had much better records (St.Clair, Gomez and Kristjansen, at the very least).
from the vids i have seen manny was seriously holding back on his punches sparring khan as for his comments he is a disrespectful little arrogant ***** and nothing has changed there
it aint even that suprising khan gets the better of pac in sparring!! i think pac would learn of khan, khans offence is world class, if he had an iron chin he'd probably be in the top 20 p4p by now, and cleaned up the LW division
Everytime he opens his mouth he shows that he has in fact learned nothing. He practically dismissed the loss to Prescott calling it a stupid mistake, he is now dismissing ***an as a credible opponent.Khan's arrogance will be his undoing.
I remember Roach saying they were using khan to spar because they wanted a tall guy with a jab (like Oscar).