Khan has had a very good start to his career, and has plenty of potential. But he isn't nearly ready to go against Mayweather (unless Mayweather has completely forgotten how to box during his long time away from the ring).
At some point fairly soon, Mayweather is going to be far enough past his prime that he will be vulnerable to someone like Khan. But that time isn't now. If Khan stepped into the ring with Mayweather this fall, Khan would be given a lesson.
Khan's time to shine may come after Mayweather has left the scene. That would be a shame, but it would be a mistake to try to force the issue by rushing Khan in when he's not ready. Khan needs to fight Bradley, and needs to take Bradley very seriously. Bradley doesn't win pretty, he just wins. Khan will gain a lot of good experience against Bradley, and he should then be able to move up to 147 lbs with confidence.
Everybody is high on Khan right now, but take a step back and remember that this is based on a win over a past-it Judah. You can't use a fight against Judah to predict Khan will do the same to Mayweather any more than you could use Haye's performance against Valuev to predict he'd do the same to Wladimir. Mayweather isn't even on the same planet as Judah.
Khan shouldn't have too much trouble dominating Judah, and then should be ready to take a step up in class. Bradley is a boring fighter, but Khan will have a very tough time beating him.
One thing Khan needs to do is stop the David Haye style "I'm going to win everything and retire young!" boasting when he (like Haye) has yet to beat anyone of note.
where have you been? Bradley basically admitted he ducked Khan. . . He wants NOTHING to do with khan. he's not confident he can beat khan, because if he was, he would have NO PROBLEM taking a 50/50 cut against Khan (who will be responsible for 90% of the damn revenue). . . HOWEVER, he has his eyes set on Pacquiao, and he knows that since he can't draw **** to flies, if he loses against Khan, his shot at Pac in the near future is GONE.
There is no getting around it - if Bradley was confident in beating Khan, why wouldn't he pick up that 2-3 million (total with UK revenue - him getting 50/50 revenue split from UK is RIDICULOUSLY generous) FIRST, and then have a GUARANTEED shot at Pac? NO, he would rather take his guaranteed 7 figures against another dude like agbregu, and then just HOPE arum gives him the pac fight. . .
Anyway, Judah is better than Bradley. amir KING KHAN takes the most risks of ANY of the guys who have drawing power like him. He wouldn't have had to fight Maidana, or Judah to make that balling ass ARAB MONEY (busta rhymes feat. p-diddy song)
Way to cram as much nonsense as possible into a single post.
For one, Judah is not better than Bradley. Nobody will take you seriously when you say things like this.
The "Khan brings 90% of the revenue" line sounds very much like the crap Haye fans were spouting to make it sound like he was being very generous by offering to give the world champ 50%. Being hyped up constantly by the UK media does not mean you are more important than the actual champion. Bradley is the man to beat, and will remain that until somebody actually beats him. Khan is an exciting fighter, well known, and I hope he does the job against Bradley. But right now Khan is not the main man, and he's not going to have everything his own way.
If Bradley can get a shot a Pacquaio, that has to be the way for him to go. It is more than a bit silly to suggest someone who goes after Manny Pacquiao is "ducking" Amir Khan.
Somebody on this board said recently that neither of these fighters would even be in the newspapers if they lived somewhere like the USA or Germany. For some reason, the English media has decided to hype the hell out of middling fighters. Fury was correct the other day when he said that Chisora has found his level, i.e. the top of the domestic heavyweights. He's never going to be a top 5 world heavyweight.
Still, Chisora is better than Fury, who has become a UK media darling not because of his meagre skills, but because of his name and his height. Fury is not even the next Michael Grant, let alone the next Wladimir Klitschko. If by chance he happens to beat Chisora, I'd love to see Fury put in the ring against Helenius or Boytsov, who would demolish him.
Neither is exactly a "bum". Chisora is a decent domestic-level fighter, and Fury is a limited big man who can use his size to reach about the same level as Chisora. Both are fortunate to be in a country where even mediocre fighters get ample media attention. If these two guys were in the USA, they would go through their entire careers without ever being mentioned by mainstream media.
Seriously, somebody needs to tell Haye he's gone way overboard with the constant spray of ****e.
Every second day, another "Wladimir is a joke! And boring. I will knock him out with my superawesome swimming-in-mid-air hayemakers omg!" But that's not all, not by a long shot. Always a new idiotic line, every few hours it seems. He's going to retire so he can't fight Vitali. Then he's going to steal Wladimir's trainer. Then he's going to fight Vitali. Then he's not going to be putting up the WBA belt because he doesn't like the referee. Then he doesn't care who the referee and judges are because he's going to knock Wladimir out omg. Then he has a new smartphone app where he decapitates a big "Russian" roflomgwtfbbq!!!
Haye sounds like an unfunny 12-year-old boy who keeps making lame wisecracks because he desperately wants attention.
And this is the best the heavyweight division can come up with? A loudmouth who never fights, but has talked himself into a "megafight" that is almost certain to be as dull as dishwater.
It's not just Haye, though. Take a look at the rest of the Ring Magazine top ranked heavyweights. Most of them are completely inactive. Adamek and Helenius have been fighting, but one is a cruiserweight and the other is not nearly ready to fight at the top. Arreola has decided to fight B-level opposition. Where are Boytsov, Povetkin, Dimitrenko? These guys should be fighting Haye and Adamek, not sitting around waiting for the Klitschkos to depart.
A bad fight yes but surley as a wladimir klitschko fan you would be able to understand that everyone has them some more then others :)
I'm not a fan of Wladimir Klitschko. I'd like some brilliant young fighter to come along and take him out. David Haye has built a huge empire of hype by pretending he is that fighter, but he plainly is not.
Whatever you or I think of Wladimir Klitschko's tiresome tactics, there is no denying that he is devastatingly effective. He has beaten a wide variety of talented heavyweights (such as there are these days). Haye is a small heavyweight, who is as quick as Chris Byrd and hits harder, but has not half the boxing ability. And Wladimir demolished Byrd.
Nobody would have cared about this fight a decade ago. The main reason why there is so much hype behind this fight is because Wladimir is fighting a genuine challenger and not some bloated fighter going for a paycheck.
The level of this interest just shows how these Klitschko Bros have ruined the HW division for a decade with their robotic style of fighting and nobody wants to pay to watch mundane fights.
I'd have thought we'd been through this often enough.
1) Wladimir has fought a much higher level of opposition than has David Haye.
2) Haye fans have paid a surprising amount of money to watch fights that don't even reach the level of "mundane". The Valuev and Harrison fights were complete jokes, but somehow David Haye's fans continue to buy into his claim of being "exciting".
Anyone who says Vitali ran from Arreola has to be trolling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX8bZcB4wS8
Catch the announcer at the start of Round 2:
"in Round one, Vitali Klitscho 34 of 88, to only 7 of 32 for Arreola."
And it didn't get any better after that for Arreola, who came to fight and gave it everything he had... but just got beat down. People say Vitali doesn't have "one punch knockout power", but I think a lot of his opponents would rather have been knocked out with a clean punch than taken ten rounds of being bludgeoned. Sometimes it looks like Vitali should have "LAPD" on his shorts.
Nooooooo!!!
David Haye ran from Valuev, too frightened to engage.
David Haye stood and looked at friggin Audley Harrison, too frightened to engage.
David Haye stayed out of range of Wladimir Klitschko, despite knowing he was guaranteed to lose by doing so, because he was too frightened to engage him.
Who in his right mind would believe for one second that Haye would do anything except run from Vitali Klitschko? Anyone who engages Vitali is going to take a lot of punishment, and Haye just doesn't have the will to do that.
David Haye simply doesn't want to fight. Instead of hyping up big non-fights, he needs to go away and do something else.
Haye is so tiresome. It would be one thing if he was a real champion who had fought his way to the top of the division, but he's nothing but a hype machine. He has done zero at heavyweight.
I hope Wladimir makes Haye quit on his stool. Then he can take the giant paycheque he didn't earn and f*k off to Cyprus.
DAVID HAYE believes his £40m unification showdown against Wladimir Klitschko is just like Rocky IV.
It is just like Rocky IV.
Unfortunately for Haye, he'll be playing the part of Apollo Creed.
The WBA have spent years pulling every trick they can to keep their belt out of the hands of the Klitschkos. Valuev was kept far away from the Klitschkos. Chagaev was quickly stripped of the belt when he replaced Haye against Wladimir.
But if they now promote Haye to "superchampion" before the fight, just to keep their regular belt away from the Klitschkos, the WBA belt should no longer be considered a major belt. It is already essentially paper.
What is with all the "Wladimir is scared! Wladimir won't fight in England!" nonsense from Haye fans who apparently learned everything they need to know about boxing from the Daily Mail?
Both Klitschkos spent much of their careers in the USA until United Statesians lost interest in heavyweight boxing.
Wladimir signed to fight Haye in England, you may remember, but Haye pulled out with a phony injury. How you conclude from this that Wladimir is scared of Haye and won't fight in England is anyone's guess.
And please don't try to tell us that anything Haye has done over the last two years has changed the situation (apart from money). Haye has fought non-contenders who pose no threat to any top fighter, and has not looked particularly impressive in doing so. He has given no indication that he is someone of whom either Klitschko would be frightened.
Haye ran shamefully from Valuev for 11+ rounds.
Haye stood still in front of the inert Audley Harrison, neither throwing punches, as even his adoring English fans rained boos on them. Eventually, after more than a round of neither "fighter" landing a single punch, the referee had to order them to engage.
Haye couldn't keep from being tagged repeatedly by the jab of old, slow John Ruiz.
After all this, we're supposed to believe he will: a) be aggressive against a much more dangerous fighter than the ones he was scared to engage; and b) evade the most effective jab in the heavyweight division.
Based on what, exactly? Haye hasn't done anything at heavyweight except pose and talk. If he doesn't land a lucky uppercut in the first 90 seconds, Haye is going to lose every round. It will be up to him if he wants to run like a girl and lose a 120-108 decision, or fight like a man and be TKOed.
Although much effort was made to hype the competitiveness of this fight, everyone who knew the two fighters knew Judah was a straightforward win for Khan, as long as Khan fought his fight to plan.
He did, and now he should be irresistible to Bradley's camp, unless they can land a much more lucrative fight with Pacquiao.
Bradley-Khan would be an interesting fight. I hope it gets made.
Yeah thoses judges were ridiculous, the fight was actually much closer than they gave credit.
No, the judges were right on. I would have scored it 117-109. Each deducted a point, 10 rounds to Wlad and 2 rounds to Haye. I could imagine a judge giving Haye round 1, or a judge giving Wladimir round 4, which probably explains the other two scores.
Haye wasn't going to win rounds just by landing the occasional single punch while running and covering. If he wanted to win rounds, he needed to take Wladimir off his game, or do some damage. Haye almost never came anywhere near doing either of those things.
The Haye side has been moaning about referees and judges for two years now. It seems plain he's considering the fight plan he used against Valuev -- run and run, and hope a few weak punches per round is enough for a decision.
Speaking of the Valuev fight -- Haye went into his "back yard", didn't knock him out, didn't even dominate, and still won the decision. So the Hayeboys don't have a leg to stand on. Certainly there is no shortage of terrible decisions in the history of title fights, but they're the exception, not the rule.
If Haye tries the Eddie Chambers fight plan, he's going to be on the end of a 120-108 decision, or a late-round KO. He could try to keep Wladimir backing up, as Calvin Brock tried, with some success. (I had that fight either 3-3 or 4-2 for Wladimir through 6; it was pretty harsh of the judges to give only one round to Brock.) Brock was getting shots at Wladimir, but didn't have the variety to make it effective, nor the stamina to do it all fight.
I just hope Haye comes to fight, not just to duck and cover and run and collect a fat paycheque he doesn't deserve.
Haye should just fight Solis. One wants a rematch because of his knee, the other because of his toe. Neither is getting a rematch with the Klitschko who beat him, so they should fight each other.
The two have some history, and who wouldn't watch it just because it would be so ridiculous?
I like Sugar and bear him no ill will for his take on the K'S . YES they are methodical and have to be careful because they are both a little " chinny " . No one has been able to really take advantage of this for a long time .
I don't know anyone who would call Vitali Klitschko "chinny". He has proven he has a rock for a head. Nor is he boring, when in the ring with someone who wants to brawl -- anyone who would trade bombs with Lennox Lewis and Corrie Sanders can hardly be called boring or safety-first.
The two brothers look the same and talk the same, but in the ring they are vastly different. If there had been a few more recent heavyweights like Vitali (and if he could have stayed healthy), nobody would be saying the division was "boring". Wladimir is the one with the boring style.
Lucky punch? How is a punch thrown with the intention to hurt your opponent lucky if it lands? Wlad is getting KO'd and there won't be any luck about it.
If I throw a basketball from the other end of the court, and it goes in, it was lucky. Even if it was "thrown with the intention" of scoring a basket.
Haye does nothing to set up his shots. He waits for his opponent to walk into a punch. He doesn't have a decent jab. He doesn't have decent defense. He has terrible footwork.
If he was as superawesome as his many deluded fans claim (noisily and continuously), Haye would have demolished the weak-hitting Valuev and the non-threat Ruiz. But he didn't. Apart from one surprise shot early against Ruiz, Haye didn't show us anything in those fights that would cause Wladimir any concern.
I'm no fan of Wladimir, and I'd love to see an exciting heavyweight come along and take him out. But Haye is not the one -- he is a charlatan who is pretending to be that fighter.
Chagaev doesn't have Hepatitis. His blood tests positive for the antigen, meaning he was exposed to the disease at some point and developed an immune response to it. But he doesn't carry the disease, and can't spread it.
If he actually had Hep B, he shouldn't be allowed to fight, because he would be unreasonably endangering himself. The other fighter would be in no danger, because the other fighter should already have had a vaccine against Hep A/B, just like anyone who travels widely or engages in contact sports should.
It's completely ridiculous that certain countries take the position that the antigen should be treated as if it was the disease.
The online odds for Haye at UK betting sites have increased. He's now 23/10 (i.e. pays $33 for a $10 bet) to beat Wladimir. These odds would have to lengthen quite a bit before a bet on Haye becomes a good idea.
Adamek will probably be around a 6/1 underdog against Vitali.
Haye is still a bit of an unknown because he hasn't fought a single tough heavyweight. Even so, it's not hard to see from his previous fights just how poorly he matches up against Wladimir. All Haye has going for him is hand speed. Haye has one chance -- land a stunning shot early. If he fails to do that, he is done.
If Haye has caused Wlad to be this emotional, imagine the state he'll have Vitali in!! :lol1::lol1:
Getting Vitali mad is a bad idea. Compared to Wladimir, Vitali is a serial killer.
"Decapitate"? Haye has talked too much over the past three years and is having to reuse his old material. Yes, David, we all remember the severed heads T-shirt. Very amusing.
This article is funny. "A lot of experts are labeling this as the defining fight of Haye's heavyweight career."
Haye's heavyweight career has consisted of nothing more than an occasional one-sided exhibition against a non-threatening opponent. He hasn't fought a single real heavyweight contender. Not even one. And now he is fighting the man who has been the champion for years -- of course this is the "defining fight" of Haye's absurd non-career.
Funny that Haye mentions the Wladimir-Ibragimov fight. The upcoming Wladimir-Haye fight is almost certainly going to be as one-sided, and probably as tedious, as that one -- and will probably do as much damage to the popularity of heavyweight boxing. But Haye will happily emerge from the beating with a huge paycheque with which to slink into retirement.