Comments Thread For: Amir Khan May Vacate if Marcos Maidana is Pushed

[£-4-£]

All this talk about Kotelnik beating Maidana and Khan beating Kotelnik is irrelevant.

Maidana has a different style to Kotelnik and "styles make fights" therefore the outcome of a Khan/Maidana fight cannot be predicted from their respective performances against a very average former world champion in Kotelnik.

Let's not forget that Maidana is an average boxer (skill wise) and all he has going for him is power, heart and hunger. Khan on the other hand; is a much better boxer (skill wise), is smarter, has a fair amount of power himself, is the fastest fighter at 140lbs in the world, a very good jab, has tasted defeat before, has the best trainer in the world (Roach), he has Ariza too, and has something to prove against heavy-handed opponents.

I think Khan will shut him out and not let Maidana's erratic punching get through to him, he will stay behind his jab and use his speed to get his combinations is, he'll stick and run but do it in a non-p*ssyfied way - it'll be an entertaining fight.

Roach will bring the heat and Khan will win by either mid-to-late stoppage (TKO or cuts) or UD. If Maidana does catch him flush then it will be interesting to see whether Khan's chin will hold out, however I believe it's improved drastically since moving up in weight.

If Khan fights him and wins, then expect a unification bout in July against Juan Urango, or Devon Alexander

[AndyShitHot]

Khan has only had 4 camps with freddy roach, before this he had a kickboxing coach for 17 fights or something Khan still needs a year or 2 with roach to correct his flaws, learn the basics and improve his boxing knowledge. Due to his popularity in england it doesn't really matter who he fights tbh because he will sell out 10,000-20,000 seating arenas with decent undercards, he's just that popular. So for the time being he can get away with cherry picking whether u like it or not, sure it won't make him many more fans. But they will forget about it when he actually starts fighting dangerous opponents in a few years time. Oscar did cherry pick at the start of his career, but later on he did fight every1. Thats exactly what khan will do, if he doesn't then go ahead slate him because I would 2.

In a few years time? He's already a world champion. He shouldn't have picked off the weakest world champion if he wasn't willing to step up to world class level.

[karrapato]

Maidana only loss is controversial. Just watch it!

He was not clearly outboxed by Koltenick, a lot of people thought he won.

What people can't understand, is that Khan hasn't done enough to get a 'Blockbuster Only Credential(2 million or more per fight)', he still has to build up his name. This boy will be a great fighther and worthy of British followers.

Beating guys like Maidana will give him experience, and will left just big fights next. Just a little more pacience.

[TheKza]

All this talk about Kotelnik beating Maidana and Khan beating Kotelnik is irrelevant.

Maidana has a different style to Kotelnik and "styles make fights" therefore the outcome of a Khan/Maidana fight cannot be predicted from their respective performances against a very average former world champion in Kotelnik.

Let's not forget that Maidana is an average boxer (skill wise) and all he has going for him is power, heart and hunger. Khan on the other hand; is a much better boxer (skill wise), is smarter, has a fair amount of power himself, is the fastest fighter at 140lbs in the world, a very good jab, has tasted defeat before, has the best trainer in the world (Roach), he has Ariza too, and has something to prove against heavy-handed opponents.

I think Khan will shut him out and not let Maidana's erratic punching get through to him, he will stay behind his jab and use his speed to get his combinations is, he'll stick and run but do it in a non-p*ssyfied way - it'll be an entertaining fight.

Roach will bring the heat and Khan will win by either mid-to-late stoppage (TKO or cuts) or UD. If Maidana does catch him flush then it will be interesting to see whether Khan's chin will hold out, however I believe it's improved drastically since moving up in weight.

If Khan fights him and wins, then expect a unification bout in July against Juan Urango, or Devon Alexander

Very Well Said

[£-4-£]

Very Well Said

thanks, it's true though - you box who's put in front of you, everybody is different

[awas88]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLKGR14Duo

go to 5.28, this is after the salita fight, khan mentions maidana here and he is willing to take anybody on, its all up to roach though and hes the guy thell listen to. But you can imagine what roach is thinking, first fight in america and gets ktfo all credibilty gone

Tbh I would be dissapointed if they dont take maidana on, beating him would just remove so many doubts. Like people have said maidana is very beatable if you stick to a game plan. I think somebody like alexander will outbox him so why dont they just take this fight and be the first to do so. If he takes the winner of the winner of diaz-pauli thatl be ok but my doubts would remain even if he beats either.

[MegatronCEN*CAL]

Dam coward. I thought you were ready to take on everybody? Oh but they put a real puncher in front of you and you run? haha

[theggamme209]

Khan is just a big *****!! He knows Maidana is a real fighter with some real power! Maidana deserves the title shot. Be a man Khan and step up to the plate and fight the number 1 contender!!

[Iceta]

This is why Khan is a manufactured fraud. You apologists of his used Salita as being his mandatory as the reason why he fought an opponent that HBO wouldn't even approve of for Arturo Gatti. But when someone that poses some danger becomes his mandatory, you say he should pull a Rid**** Bowe. Salita isn't a good fighter, and people hyping Khan up over that win are delusional.

[Dave Rado]

Most people, were very wrong.

Yeah, and the earth is flat.

And he isn't on Sky cos he ain't sold out Frank Warren, and his over protecting fighters.

So Murdoch doesn't own Sky any more, Warren bought him out? Do you have a link to the announcement?