By Mark Vester
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is looking to make a huge statement on December 11 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Khan will defend the title against mandatory challenger Marcos Maidana. For over a year, Khan was believed to have been ducking a fight with Maidana. Now the contest is nearly a week away.
Maidana has vowed to knock Khan out with either hand. The once-beaten British fighter has promised to shock the fans by displaying his own knockout power. He plans to break Maidana down and stop him.
"I think that I'm one of the biggest punchers in the division," Khan said. "He keeps saying that either with his left or right [hand] he's going to knock me out. We'll see when the fight comes. Let him keep relying on that. We know exactly how to beat this guy. If he's coming to fight by thinking that he's the only power puncher, then let him think that."
Khan's trainer Freddie Roach has put down a strategy of breaking Maidana down early on, and then attacking him in the later rounds for a knockout victory.
"We will go after Maidana at some point in the fight, after we break him down. That will take some rounds. He's a very durable guy but we'll break him down and knock him out in the late rounds," Roach said.
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