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By Jake Donovan - Strike while the iron is hot. If there’s a fight to be made, then by all means make it. The longer you wait for it to build up before making it a reality, the greater the chance that something goes wrong.
There are plenty of examples to be cited, but doing so would only conjure up endless – and pointless – debates over why it hasn’t yet happened, who’s to blame, whose is bigger and all that nonsense.
However, there are those fights where perhaps putting a little bit of time between concept and reality isn’t such a bad thing.
A pending junior welterweight showdown between Timothy Bradley and Amir Khan is rapidly shifting towards that category.
When HBO first floated the idea of an unofficial junior welterweight tourney, the aforementioned matchup was one that most experts envisioned as its grand finale.
Khan had long ago put in the rearview mirror a humiliating first round knockout loss to Breidis Prescott, rattling off seven straight wins. His last five have catapulted him towards the top of the junior welterweight rankings, including wins over Andriy Kotelnik, Paul Malignaggi and his thriller with Marcos Maidana last December.
The only remaining road block between Khan and divisional supremacy, is the level of superiority exuded by Bradley over the course of the past three years. His reign began with a well-earned road win over Junior Witter in his first ever fight outside of California, never mind traveling to the titlist’s backyard to score what at the time was regarded as a considerable upset.
As time marched on, fans have come around to recognize that the title win was no fluke. Victories over Kendall Holt and previously unbeaten Lamont Peterson bookended a super 2009 campaign, and has since snatched two more “0’s” with HBO-televised wins over Luis Abregu and Devon Alexander. [Click Here To Read More]
There are plenty of examples to be cited, but doing so would only conjure up endless – and pointless – debates over why it hasn’t yet happened, who’s to blame, whose is bigger and all that nonsense.
However, there are those fights where perhaps putting a little bit of time between concept and reality isn’t such a bad thing.
A pending junior welterweight showdown between Timothy Bradley and Amir Khan is rapidly shifting towards that category.
When HBO first floated the idea of an unofficial junior welterweight tourney, the aforementioned matchup was one that most experts envisioned as its grand finale.
Khan had long ago put in the rearview mirror a humiliating first round knockout loss to Breidis Prescott, rattling off seven straight wins. His last five have catapulted him towards the top of the junior welterweight rankings, including wins over Andriy Kotelnik, Paul Malignaggi and his thriller with Marcos Maidana last December.
The only remaining road block between Khan and divisional supremacy, is the level of superiority exuded by Bradley over the course of the past three years. His reign began with a well-earned road win over Junior Witter in his first ever fight outside of California, never mind traveling to the titlist’s backyard to score what at the time was regarded as a considerable upset.
As time marched on, fans have come around to recognize that the title win was no fluke. Victories over Kendall Holt and previously unbeaten Lamont Peterson bookended a super 2009 campaign, and has since snatched two more “0’s” with HBO-televised wins over Luis Abregu and Devon Alexander. [Click Here To Read More]
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