Worst things about last night.

I cant see any other way he could've performed, Khan is that much better, hoping he runs out of steam late on was the best way, esp as McCloskey gets better as the fight goes on.

Before the fight, most said it would be a blowout. The people who gave Dudey a chance, stated that if he could weather the early storm, he might take it late.

So I really dont know what people were expecting from him in the first half????

 

This is what I mean atsch
The bias in you Irish is ****ing incredible atsch

 

Okay so yeah, that was the theory pre-fight. It's kind of logical since Khan is best in the early rounds, as any fighter of his ilk is.

Nothing in the fight hinted at this master plan coming off. He wasn't even keeping Khan under pressure by forcing him to punch to keep McC off. Khan fought at his own pace and thats no way to tire a fighter.

We also saw that technically, McC was struggling to implement anything. His feet were too slow to keep pressure on, and its doubtful that he had the steel to walk Khan down even if he did. He couldn't counterpunch a guy that was that much faster than him, especially when he was so focused on evasion. He couldn't box with Khan. Nothing worked or looked like working technically so I don't think round 9, 10, 11 would make too much difference.

 

My prediction was Kahn on points or MC via Stopage, and i did beleive that MC will come stronger in later rounds and stop Kahn, and nobody knows what would have happened in the next 6 rounds if they fight wasn't stoped
Kahn almost got stoped in Maidana fight, and most of the Reffs would've stoped it
So i don't beleive Kahn will bit Bradley from what i saw last night

 

That's the point, Maidana kept constant pressure on Khan even when he was getting severely outboxed. You can lose a round decisively and still put something in the bank for later but McC was not doing that. He was stood there doing nothing so I'm a bit confused by people that are wondering what would have happened. Of course its sport so you never know but you can't really say with any evidence to back it up that McC had anything other than a mild punchers chance late in the fight (he's not a big puncher). He might have bought a few lottery tickets and thats about it, the fight was not heading in his direction.

 

I can see why McCloskey thought Khan might be tiring though.. I nearly fell asleep watching his style.

 

Manny Steward is one of the most bias commentators I have heard. He chooses who he wants to win and regardless of the action he commentates accordingly (imo of course lol )

Larry merchant too, anything with pacman and old Larry cant get his head far enough up his arse lol

 

McC was standing in front of Amir Khan, and he was very good on head movement and reflexes as a defence. I think McCloskey’s strategy was to continue making Kahn miss in order to frustrate him. I thought he was doing good job. What i was expected to happened is Kahn to start slowimg down and lunging in and leave himself open for a perfect counter punch.
This is where fight would change the direction, if he could not catch McC in early rounds where he had speed and power what makes you beleive he would catch him in later rounds, and as we know McC gets stronger in later rounds while Kahn becomes Marathon runner when things get tougher

 

heres the Ashley Theoplane interview :rofl

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Have to agree mate, McCloskey made him miss much more than the commentators would have had us believe imo.

Although I cant help feeling pissed off at the fact the fight was stopped on a tiny cut yet the barrera fight was allowed to continue even though it looked as though he'd been hit on the head with a ****ing axe lol

 

Berto-Numerous times in a enthralling encounter decided he wanted to exploit any chances he had in fight to win via points by feigning injury after rabbit punches from Ortiz. It was boxing's version of simulation and was embarrassing and it's not first time he's acted like this when hit.

 

Please tell us more - how much did you win? What did they say? How was it communicated?

 

What makes YOU think McCloskey would suddenly be able to turn things on like a tap? He did nothing in 6 rounds, he didn't put any pressure on to tire Khan, yeah okay he made him miss quite a bit and took a lot of sting out of shots by leaning away but he still had to soak a fair bit up on arms and elbows and side of the head. Takes more out than people think. It's not as simple as Khan = punching McCloskey = not punching therefore Khan is tired and McCloskey isn't.

McCloskey found no answers, never looked like finding answers, end of story. Thats what we know, because it did happen.

 

Because Khan fades down the stretch and his lack of technique shows up, a good boxer can then start to get the timing of him (or not so good boxers in Maidana). Its not just pressure fighters that take over down the stretch, see Mayweather who usually takes over too

 

After the **** Khan was spewing you can hardly blame them, the score wasn't really settled, Khan probably would have won but it was a unsatisfactory TD and he was talking billy big bollox after degrading his opponent and in truth its because he knew he looked a bit silly missing at times and he was frustated.

I try to be a Khan fan and think he'll beat Bradley, but he's 1 of the most unlikable people in the sport and I always end up rooting for his opponent