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Terrible opinion piece... You lost all credibility Lyle.
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Mayweather ducked Khan. It’s clear as day. Mayweather’s punches wouldn’t have had the power to KO Khan.
But light-punching Lamont Peterson was able to give Khan issues.
DSG couldn’t score a KO vs Morales, Holt or Campbell. All older fighters who were ready to retire. But DSG, with his career 53% KO ratio, managed to clobber Khan around the ring. Something Mayweather, with his 54% ratio, probably couldn’t do for some reason.
Let us not forget the other guys who dropped Khan and their career KO % compared to Mayweather’s.
Mayweather: 54%
Prescott 44% (Prescott’s inflated 19-0 and 17KO’s were mostly vs debuting fighters with multiple losses. He was never able to replicate the power he showed in his first 20 fights vs other top level opponents. Thus, his KO % lowered all the way down to 44% from the inflated 89% going into the Khan fight)
Julio Diaz 56%
DSG 53%
Rachid Drizlane 4.17%
Samuel Vargas 35%
Willie Limond 26%
Michael Gomez 52%
More powerful opponents that dropped Khan:
Crawford 76%
Canelo 65%
Brook 65%
It doesn’t take much to drop Khan, Lyle. You have had your fun, now please stop trolling. You are better than this.
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How many full-fledged welterweights did Rachid Drizlane stopped in their prime before he dropped Khan? He has a career 4.17% KO rt.
How about DSG? How many full-fledged 140, prime fighters did he stopped before clobbering Khan in the ring?
Diaz, Vargas, Gomez, Limond? How many prime fighters did they drop?
Forget about full-fledged, in their prime, how many fighters with a winning record did Breidis Prescott stop before KO’ing Khan? How many after Khan?Comment
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Lyle is a great writer. Definitely one of the better one’s in the last two decades (that I have read) I don’t know what he was thinking here.
His piece reads like those Boxing News 24 articles that google keeps suggesting I read. I finally had enough and asked google to stop suggesting “articles” from that website. Those “authors” are just posters who started their own website. They have zero reporting skills, write stuff full of mistakes, typos, and bias. And worst, they never admit when they are wrong.
This is what this article reads like. Which concerns because I don’t think prime Lyle Fitzsimmons would write this crap. Could be past his best and if that is the case, he should hang up his keyboard and mouse. Do one last great piece and go out on top. Cherrypick an easy topic and go out with a KO.Comment
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Dumb article. Khan was getting dropped by lightweights. At 147, Chris Algieri and his 30% ko rate had khan on Bambi legs and fought him nearly dead even. Surely Mayweather would’ve been able to hurt khan and based in khans tendency to fade late and get very sloppy, while mayweather had exceptional stamina, khan would’ve been picked apart, ko or not.Comment
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The numbers are what they are, just like the Manny poll where Manny did exactly as Floyd but you fail to mention that.
You're just a fanboy crying in your hate the only place you are seen is Floyd thread spewing the verbal BS you always did, at this point in time you are as pathetic as in the May Manny heyday.
Khan is a joke and could never have beaten a guy near Mays quality, this forum is for the most part teenage numbnuts that are hype swallowers, there is not a lot of boxing knowledge in here, especially from haters like you.Comment
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