Manuel Perez: The latest word that I’m hearing is that World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) dominated Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KO’s) in their sparring sessions at trainer Freddie Roach’s Wildcard Gym, in Los Angeles not too long ago.
I’m hearing that Khan did such a good job of kicking Pacquiao’s backside that Roach came away convinced that Khan had what it takes to be a champion. I already heard a long time ago that Khan had done a pretty good job of beating Pacquiao up during these sparring sessions, but I didn’t realize how dominating it was. Look for yourself at the video.
It looks like Pacquiao is too slow and not able to keep up with the speed and power of Khan. Obviously, this is just a small segment of their sparring sessions but I can imagine it probably got much worse than this in the other portions of their sparring. I think this might not be a good fight down the road for Khan. Pacquiao looked like a child against Khan and was really getting his backside kicked in a royal fashion.
If Pacquiao doesn’t get beaten up too badly by Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez or Floyd Mayweather Jr., a fight against Khan might not be a bad idea. It looks like here that Khan has too much speed, reach, power and height for Pacquiao. I guess that means there would be some kind weight draining catch weight stipulation for Khan to get him weak enough to make a fight of it for Pacquiao. I could see Khan having to drain down to super featherweight to make this fight happen.
I don’t think it would matter. Khan is young enough to drop weight without it hurting him and Pacquiao would find himself in for a long night much like his first fight against Erik Morales and his two fights against Marquez. I sure hope Pacquiao doesn’t quit on us with his improbable dream of trying to become the president of the Philippines.
I’d like to see Khan manhandle Pacquiao some more, but this time for a full 12 rounds. Khan would probably toy with Pacquiao for 12 rounds like he’s seen here in the video and make an easy fight of it. Khan appears to really have Pacquiao’s number. I guess it’s true that speed kills, because in this case, Khan is clearly the faster of the two and hitting Pacquiao at will with right hands. Pacquiao looks nearly defenseless against Khan’s right hands. This is really beautiful stuff here.
IDK about you guys but if that were a round in a fight, I would have given it to Pac.
Alot of Khans' shots were blocked while Manny threw alot of good combinations that actually landed.
Manuel Perez: The latest word that I’m hearing is that World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) dominated Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KO’s) in their sparring sessions at trainer Freddie Roach’s Wildcard Gym, in Los Angeles not too long ago.
I’m hearing that Khan did such a good job of kicking Pacquiao’s backside that Roach came away convinced that Khan had what it takes to be a champion. I already heard a long time ago that Khan had done a pretty good job of beating Pacquiao up during these sparring sessions, but I didn’t realize how dominating it was. Look for yourself at the video.
It looks like Pacquiao is too slow and not able to keep up with the speed and power of Khan. Obviously, this is just a small segment of their sparring sessions but I can imagine it probably got much worse than this in the other portions of their sparring. I think this might not be a good fight down the road for Khan. Pacquiao looked like a child against Khan and was really getting his backside kicked in a royal fashion.
If Pacquiao doesn’t get beaten up too badly by Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez or Floyd Mayweather Jr., a fight against Khan might not be a bad idea. It looks like here that Khan has too much speed, reach, power and height for Pacquiao. I guess that means there would be some kind weight draining catch weight stipulation for Khan to get him weak enough to make a fight of it for Pacquiao. I could see Khan having to drain down to super featherweight to make this fight happen.
I don’t think it would matter. Khan is young enough to drop weight without it hurting him and Pacquiao would find himself in for a long night much like his first fight against Erik Morales and his two fights against Marquez. I sure hope Pacquiao doesn’t quit on us with his improbable dream of trying to become the president of the Philippines.
I’d like to see Khan manhandle Pacquiao some more, but this time for a full 12 rounds. Khan would probably toy with Pacquiao for 12 rounds like he’s seen here in the video and make an easy fight of it. Khan appears to really have Pacquiao’s number. I guess it’s true that speed kills, because in this case, Khan is clearly the faster of the two and hitting Pacquiao at will with right hands. Pacquiao looks nearly defenseless against Khan’s right hands. This is really beautiful stuff here.
where was the ass whoopin this idiot's talking about?!! :thinking:
People read way too much into sparring vids on youtube. Bear in mind this was filmed a week or so after Khan got destroyed by Prescott, when Pacquiao had only just begun his camp for the De La Hoya fight.
Khan has the natural size advantage and a bit of speed, that's about it. If Pacquiao landed cleanly he'd take Amir's head off.
That explains why Manny stopped hitting Khan after he knocked him off the screen with that uppercut...
Khan smacks a lot of fighters around because he's so cocky with a headguard on, without he'd be dropped in a minute - literally.
Man I totally ROFLd in real life because of your sig
Manuel Perez: The latest word that I’m hearing is that World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) dominated Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KO’s) in their sparring sessions at trainer Freddie Roach’s Wildcard Gym, in Los Angeles not too long ago.
I’m hearing that Khan did such a good job of kicking Pacquiao’s backside that Roach came away convinced that Khan had what it takes to be a champion. I already heard a long time ago that Khan had done a pretty good job of beating Pacquiao up during these sparring sessions, but I didn’t realize how dominating it was. Look for yourself at the video.
It looks like Pacquiao is too slow and not able to keep up with the speed and power of Khan. Obviously, this is just a small segment of their sparring sessions but I can imagine it probably got much worse than this in the other portions of their sparring. I think this might not be a good fight down the road for Khan. Pacquiao looked like a child against Khan and was really getting his backside kicked in a royal fashion.
If Pacquiao doesn’t get beaten up too badly by Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez or Floyd Mayweather Jr., a fight against Khan might not be a bad idea. It looks like here that Khan has too much speed, reach, power and height for Pacquiao. I guess that means there would be some kind weight draining catch weight stipulation for Khan to get him weak enough to make a fight of it for Pacquiao. I could see Khan having to drain down to super featherweight to make this fight happen.
I don’t think it would matter. Khan is young enough to drop weight without it hurting him and Pacquiao would find himself in for a long night much like his first fight against Erik Morales and his two fights against Marquez. I sure hope Pacquiao doesn’t quit on us with his improbable dream of trying to become the president of the Philippines.
I’d like to see Khan manhandle Pacquiao some more, but this time for a full 12 rounds. Khan would probably toy with Pacquiao for 12 rounds like he’s seen here in the video and make an easy fight of it. Khan appears to really have Pacquiao’s number. I guess it’s true that speed kills, because in this case, Khan is clearly the faster of the two and hitting Pacquiao at will with right hands. Pacquiao looks nearly defenseless against Khan’s right hands. This is really beautiful stuff here.
looks like he did well there khan to say he was in with the best! certainly did a lot better than hatton ey!!
Khan sounded good with the grunting and groaning. It gave the impression every time he grunted, he was landing.
SO he beat him in the sounding impressive stakes.
Well, yea obviously but that's what he thinks. We all have our predictions. I, as well, think Duran would whoop Pacquiao.
He didn't say he'd "whoop" him, only that he thinks Duran would have beaten any Lightweight in history, Pac included. Rating Pac as the second best Lightweight of all time is hardly a criticism of Pac.
who cares if khan beat pac in sparing.Its sparing ali never went hard in sparing doesn't mean his sparing partners would beat him.Also theirs that guy forgot his name said he beat floyd in sparring like it actually means anything?
Isnt this perez a notorious PAC hater?...............
With knobs on. He's posted exactly the same thing on boxing news 24, by the way - he's just an obsessive idiot. Maybe Pac stole his girlfriend when they were kids or something - he seems to be eaten up by his hate.
wow that sparring is good to watch.
pac combo on 0:30 is awesome,i think khan got hurt with that shot but after that "buboy" said to manny, "ikot ikot", means "just circle around" and pac just go to defensive mode after that
I noticed that, looked like Manny landed a hard shot then just covered up not too worried about what Khan was throwing at him.
wow that sparring is good to watch.
pac combo on 0:30 is awesome,i think khan got hurt with that shot but after that "buboy" said to manny, "ikot ikot", means "just circle around" and pac just go to defensive mode after that
that was not an ass whoopin. like what's already been said, pacquaio wasn't going all out and he was working on his defense and taking shots. you can even hear him tell khan "THROW!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OhC69fcsAE
He even admits Duran would beat Pacquiao. :rofl:
i remember reading and watching a vid that pac knocked down khan in sparring but in that video, freddie said "...IF pacquiao knocked him out right away..."
that was not an ass whoopin. like what's already been said, pacquaio wasn't going all out and he was working on his defense and taking shots. you can even hear him tell khan "THROW!"
i remember reading and watching a vid that pac knocked down khan in sparring but in that video, freddie said "...IF pacquiao knocked him out right away..."
Oh, now I listened very close and he did say "If". Good one.
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