Unless Khan learns to fight on the inside, It'll be another tough night

Really?

How comes Rico?

 

I think it’s because I didn’t see any evidence in the first fight to suggest Khan can do anything different the second time round. From round three, all the way until round twelve, he had no answer to what Peterson was doing. And the worst thing is, it’s not like it’s the first time he’s had to deal with that sort of style. He experienced almost similar problems against Maidana a year before. And you can even go further back to the Gomez fight. If he was capable of learning from it and being able to deal with pressure, he would have shown it by now.

The only saving grace for him has been his heart and conditioning. And that alone won’t be enough to stop a Peterson who only took two rounds to figure him out the first time. In May, expect him [Peterson] to win more convincingly.

 

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I think the biggest glaring weakness in Khan's game is not his infighting. It's his inability to stick to a gameplan WHILST under pressure. It's his inability to listen to Roach WHILST under pressure. He listens at times, but he can't go for long periods doing so, his ego, panicking takes over.

 

Good Stuff!

I see where you're coming from and agree as I expect Peterson to be more confident with handling Khan this time round.

 

when does any freddy roach fighter fight in the inside?

 

When deviating from the gameplan (boxing at range) and being drawn into a war......do you guys think it's because of his ego, or his inability to come up with better answers (panicking, like you say)? :think

Sadly, I think it's the latter. When we see him leaning on he ropes and shaking his head after being clubbered, I think it's just a front. In reality, he's confused and has no clue of what to do. He continues fighting at the other guy's game because there's no choice in the matter.

 

Aye. He doesn't know how to deal with someone on his chest. Unfortunately down to his still-amateur style. He boxes beautifully when he listens to Roach, look at Kotelnik and Malignaggi. But when someone pressures him, he only listens in spurts. When he listened to Roach against Peterson, he had success...Roach told him, throw the uppercut, he threw it, it landed, it hurt Peterson on occasion. But then Peterson kept coming, and Khan neglected the uppercut, and stopped listening to Roach.

Khan's ring IQ is quite low IMO. He may always come unstuck at the very top because of it. :conf

 

Good reminder about the uppercut. My brother at the time was saying the same thing - when Peterson walks forward to bury his head in his chest, he should step back and throw an uppercut to halt him.

But you're spot on. When things are going his way (Kotelnik and Malignaggi) he's comfortable and listens to instructions easily.

I wish he learned how to effectively grab, spoil, move the head, and take subtle steps to create room for himself. All of these things would save him the effort of sprinting around the ring and tiring himself out.

 

If they worked on his footwork a lot more, he may not even need to constantly grab, spoil, etc like you said. He wouldn't be there for his opponent (although, these things would need to take place on occasion).

Look at the drills Diaz had Cotto doing before the Margarito bout. Had him using plenty of lateral movement, punching in combinations on the way back, transferring the weight to actually hit with power using different angles. Cotto looked very good and fast on his feet. These drills are used plenty in amateur boxing, and although Khan's style has not developed fully in to a pro style, these type of drills may benefit him at this point.

 

He said in an interview at the presser today that he's gonna work on the inside and strength. I question whether it will still be enough.

 

Khan is an instinctive boxer, like Pac. He's not a cerebral type, like Marquez, Donaire, Floyd, Hopkins, etc. If I remember right, Peterson described him as an 'energy fighter' with good athletic qualities -- Khan depends on getting in the ring and fighting in energetic bursts from range. He doesn't really look like he's analysing his opponent and adapting as the fight goes on...he just does the same thing over and over again. This works for him a lot of the time due to his speed, stamina and such, and when he has problems he falls back on his heart. That's not enough to deal with top level guys, though.

 

Khan cannot learn to infight in a few months, nor can he learn adaptability....this is why Lamont wins even more convincingly this time. Lamont by clear UD w/o controversy although I'd like to see him knock that whiny ***** ass Khans head off. RIP Khans "ATG" career after this fight he's done at the elite level for a while....back to England where he'll make decent scrill on the domestic level til he gets brutally KO'd into retirement by some unsuspecting can.