Everyone is saying that Khan deserves props for taking the fight and I disagree. He'll get props off me if he manages to put in a performance against Canelo, hell he'll get props off me for taking the fight past the 3rd round. Until then he's get the props he deserves with his tainted victories, his wins against big names that are over-the-hill and his losses against every decent fighter he's fought in their prime. He thinks he has the speed to outbox Canelo and the power to potentially knock him out. Khan is deluded and going to get himself hurt. I'm expecting his legs to turn to jelly the first time he's caught and the fight to be over in the 1st round, Khan is nothing more than a pinata for the Cinco de Mayo weekend.
Amir Khan needs to shut his mouth and focus on training as opposed to marketing the fight. Everyday since the fight was announced; it's been Amir Khan talking about his chances and how he fancies himself against Canelo. I've not seen one quote from Canelo about this fight since it was announced. It's like Amir Khan's trying to convince himself he can win because deep down he knows he's getting humiliated come May 7th.
Floyd Mayweather's such a tough guy to read, my head tells me that he'll come back for one more fight but my heart disagrees. As for Canelo/Khan I can't see past an early knockout for Canelo, my money's on within 3 rounds but then he'll have the biggest test of his career against GGG.
This should be a really good fight. I'll be rooting for Frampton but it's difficult to call a winner. I think it's interesting that Frampton left Matchroom Boxing and they signed up Quigg shortly after. I remember a post-fight ringside interview with Frampton and Hearn in which Hearn basically belittled Quigg by saying that Frampton sold out arenas and was one of the best in the world while Quigg couldn't and wasn't.
I read somewhere that Amir Khan will receive $6m and none of the PPV money for taking this fight. He would have got at least double fighting Kell Brook but said the deal "wasn't good enough".
It's not that he's scared of Brook, he's scared that after all the drama they've both created then if he was to lose his reputation and career would be in tatters. Fighting Canelo at middleweight is a safe option. No-one is giving Khan a chance in hell to beat him so the worst that can happen for him is a 1st round KO that everyone expects, the best however is that he wins. Even if he fights Canelo until the 5th round before getting knocked out he's surpassed everyone's expectations. It's a win/win fight for him.
Damn dude, I'm at least expecting it to be competitive till the second half of the fight. If Canelo would press at least as much as Peterson did, then yea, 2-4 rounds. But he doesn't fight that way. He's going to follow Khan, a fighter who usually wins rounds, around the ring.
I can't see it going past Round 4 at most, if Canelo catches Khan clean it's going to shake him into survival mode and he won't survive. Personally I think it'll be over before Round 4.
Khan cannot hit as hard as Canelo. Khan is all speed, he doesn't have the boxing intelligence to outbox and even if he tries to; his glass jaw is a massive liability. Canelo won't even have to hit him as hard as he can to put Khan into survival mode.
It was good to see Mayweather vs Pacquiao eventually materialize, but I would have preferred to see the fight around 2008-2010 as I feel it's when both fighters were on top of their game. If Canelo doesn't fight GGG then he drops the belts, but the most important question is; where does he go from there? He's too big for the welterweight division and the only middleweight who wants to fight him is GGG. I think Canelo vs GGG will happen in November regardless of what other people say but I think Canelo will have to abandon Caneloweight and fight at 160 lbs, although I don't think GGG would have a problem dropping 5 lbs to prove a point.
Khan's talking a lot about his chances since making the fight, if he believes he even has one he's going to get himself hurt. He can't even survive with decent fighters at welterweight so he's hardly going to survive with one of the best P2P fighters in the world. I've seen both him and Canelo fight on a number of occasions and one thing I am certain of is that when Canelo connects cleanly with Khan; he is going to KO him.
Floyd could be a good trainer, specifically with things like footwork and defensive techniques. The only way to find out is to see if he develops good boxers.
Khan thinking he can replicate Mayweather's strategy is laughable. Mayweather was the best P2P fighter of his generation and one of the greatest welterweights of all time sitting alongside Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Leonard. Khan's ego in even thinking he can replicate what the masterful Floyd Mayweather did is going to get him hurt. The sooner he realizes that he's good but not great the better; I just hope for his sake it's before fight night!
Canelo said he would fight GGG but at the Canelo catchweight of 155 lbs as he's champion and it should be on his terms, even at 155 lbs I see GGG winning but surely Canelo can't drop the belt in order to duck GGG. His credibility as a fighter would sink even lower than it already has by choosing to fight Khan.