Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan To Train Together

[ListenUpWell]

Comet Khan

If they spar together, I expect to be waking up at 3 a.m to see Khan orbiting the planet.

[ferocity]

Im telling you right now. Khan will get the best of Pac in sparring. You can quote me on this!

[We want Floyd]

Im telling you right now. Khan will get the best of Pac in sparring. You can quote me on this!

He'll get the best tasting left hands that's for sure(hehe)

[edgarg]

I totally disagree with your observations of Roach's coaching style.

The reason why you see Roach the way he is, is because he has an offensive machine in PACquiao. A coach's job is to further enhance his ward's strengths and try to bring up weaknesses. Roach started training PAC in his mid to late 20's, so PAC brought alot of his bad habits with him already. Trying to make a fighter do a complete 180 in mid-stride is often difficult if not impossible. What I have pointed out is what seperates Roach from other trainers. He doesn't try to mold them in what he used to be as a fighter, he works with what he has.

In PAC's case, Roach has a fighter, who is aggressive and has alot of tenacity just like he did when he was a fighter.

Alot of trainers try to make their fighters like how they use to fight, there's nothing wrong with it, if their fighter has similar abilities and temperament.

So no, I don't think you'll be seeing Khan fighting ala PAC. Roach is old school tough, PAC is old school tough, hopefully they can instill that toughness in Khan.

Another upside with Khan training alongside PAC is they both have something in common, they both got ko'd early in their careers and look where PAC is now. Khan can definitely feed off of that.

I saw the Roach long before he got Manny, in fact I saw him when he was fighting...... he fought about as well as he trains. You can see his record on "boxrec".

I didn't say that the Roach would train Khan so that he would emerge as another Manny, I said I thought that he was the wrong person to train Khan. By this, I mean a fighter like Khan....ANY fighter like Khan, with a glass jaw, a fast mover, and over tall for his weight class. The Roach, in my opinion knows very little about defensive boxing, and, in his own boxing days, showed this deficiency often.

What Khan should be learning is the old way to throw a left jab....like a sword thrust, with good follow-through, and with his chin properly down, meeting his shoulder joint, his supposedly well developed left shoulder and upper arm muscles should shield his chin completely, bringing it back along the same path. The operative word is "should". The way Kahn fights, sticvking his unprotected head up, he leaves his most vulnerable deficiency open to a right counter as well as a reflexive left jab.

Mind you, I'm no expert on the way others should fight, it's up to them, their inclinations, and attitudes towards getting hit. I only know the way I'd fight.

Winky Wright's left jab is so successful because he pushes it out straight, and brings it back in exactly the same way, acting as a protection to a counter.

99% of today's boxers drop their left hand after the jab is delivered, which, in MY day, was a HUGE No-No.

Remember how Max Schmeling said, of Joe Louis, " I zee zomesing". Well, THAT's what he saw, and, countered with his hefty right hand over Louis's retiring, dropping left, and gave him the beating of his life finally KO-ing him in the 12th. And Louis didn't drop his left nearly as much as today's fighters, but just enough for Max's right hand to whizz over.

Just my opinion.

[Vadrigar.]

If they spar together, I expect to be waking up at 3 a.m to see Khan orbiting the planet.