Amir Khan to make Second Defence.

Maidana by KO round 4...

Bump!! :boxing:

Roach allowed him to fight Maidana? Wow. The key for Amir's succes will be footwork. Ortiz footwork was sh*t when he fought Marcos. Amir will go in and out without engaging too much with Marcos. Marcos has never faced a fighter as fast paced as Amir. I agree with you. That is the key to victory,Khan has to be evasive and deny Maidana the opportunity to tee off. Then his fast jab will come into play to break Maidana up but not go in for the kill too early like Salita who had nothing. �-4-� Maidana's chin is OKish nothing more,when he goes down he gets up again. When Khan went down in the Precott fight it looked like he had dropped acid. Although Maidana gets dropped he gets up again I see the chances of the ref stopping the fight higher than a clean KO . Khan's power is reasonable nothing more but combined with speed and when the punch is not seen can cause Maidana to be knocked down but we are not talking about raw power here. Hamed had raw power there is a big difference. Roach is going to be working on speed,mobility and footwork not power in this fight IMO Roach knows if the emfasis is on power there is a tendancy for the fighter to want to demonstrate it and get into a fight. Roach will want to avoid a fight at all costs just as Haye did with Valuev.

people are over-rating Maidana's chin and under-rating Khan's power. Ortiz dropped him 3 times, fair enough Ortix has more pop than Khan but Khan has enough power to drop him imo. Plus his speed is unrivaled at 140 (except for Pacman and Zab Judah), he's faster than Bradley imo. Khan's Power + Khan's Lightning speed + Maidana's questionable chin = KTFO Maidana won't see them coming, he's never been in the ring with someone of Khan's quality. Khan's sparred with, and will be sparring more with, Pacquaio. I bet Khan knocks him down at least once in the first three rounds. He'll try to weather Maidana's early storm and stay on the outside and jab away and will be up on the cards. And counter him when he has the chance. I can imagine Maidana getting dropped like the first KD against Salita, quick left-right combo to the chin. No doubt Ariza's going to be working on Khan's power even more leading up to this fight. Khan stops Maidana inside 8 rounds.

Roach allowed him to fight Maidana? Wow. Not really. We are not dealing with Marvin Hagler and his management here who call it as it is. The media circus of Warren,Roach and Khan work the media and tell lies and mix lies with the truth. So pretty well everything that comes out from Team Khan has to be taken with a pinch of salt. I could be true ,could be lies. In this case with roach saying he is worried about Maidana it is either preparation for a descision to pull out to limit collateral damage from the fall out or to make Maidana look like a very dangerous credible opponent as was the media campaign with Salita the Bagel Boy Bum. The gain is lots of publicity and it makes the victory look better and the defeat not as bad . Win Win. Remember Prescott he became a monster after his victory but against Mitchell looked a journeyman to me.

Maidana doesn't mess around with that right hand lol.

I hope this is true and this should be on the Pacquiao-Clottey undercard as I know HBO were interested in this fight. Then they could even sell this card as PPV in the UK with: Pacquiao vs Clottey Khan vs Maidana Margarito vs tbc I know i'm dreaming but that would be amazing. yeah , that would be great and a worthwhile ppv here in the uk

Tough fight for Khan .Doubt he'll stand and trade with Maidana.

Roach allowed him to fight Maidana? Wow.

Gotta keep bumping this to people will know!!:boxing:

Khan should win this fight. Maidana can hit hard but is a really limited wide open fighter with a very poor defence. Despite Maidana losing to very average Kotelnik he is a more risky fight for Khan. Maidana has beaten Ortiz when he was expected to lose and will have a high level of confidence. Khan must keep him at bay, outbox him and take the sting off Maidana's punches then systematically outbox and show him up. Providing Khan does not get drawn into a fight early Khan should win this easily. Khan will deserve credit just for taking the fight and I hope this will be a sign that the days of fighting bums,old has beens and canned fights is over.

Bump :boxing:

I hope this is true and this should be on the Pacquiao-Clottey undercard as I know HBO were interested in this fight. Then they could even sell this card as PPV in the UK with: Pacquiao vs Clottey Khan vs Maidana Margarito vs tbc I know i'm dreaming but that would be amazing.

this should be interesting, khan's gonna have to use his speed and outbox him. Khan's gotta dance around a lot, cuz if he stands and trades with maidana he's gonna get KTFO.

I swear. People can talk about pac mayweather all they want, THIS is the fight i am looking forward to though.

i think maidnana wins this...... Nah man, Khan's got this one. Bet if fight happens?

Hopefully this is in UK :boxing: would be an awesome night :beerchug:

Good shit. I'll be looking forward to this fight. This will prove if Khan's chin is still made of china or not.