Comments Thread For: Roach: Khan is Progressing Faster Than Manny Pacquiao

[Shogun99]

I agree with this comment

How so? In the past 3 year he has eaten clean punches from pretty much everyone and has not even taken a knee. He survives an all out assault hardest hitter in the divison; and all of a sudden he is one punch away from being KO'D?

Maybe all those punches that Maidana landed on him prior to the 10th were just slaps.

[Greg House]

sadly he doesn't have the chin to be p4p.

Also after seeing what Lara did to P williams, Martinez is little overrated.

Then watch his fight against Winky Wright. You don't get to be the most avoided guy in boxing just for nothing.

Against Lara he looked different than usually. Maybe that KO affect him for worse...

[Ritchie Kay]

How so? In the past 3 year he has eaten clean punches from pretty much everyone and has not even taken a knee. He survives an all out assault hardest hitter in the divison; and all of a sudden he is one punch away from being KO'D?

Maybe all those punches that Maidana landed on him prior to the 10th were just slaps.

I'm not sold on Khan as i think he has stamina problems and a weak chin.

He should just stop talking about fighting Floyd as he would get a rude awakening. Just my opinion

[Cash Cow]

Khan is a superior boxer at 24 then PAC was at 24?

GTFOH with that nonsense Roach!

Manny won his 1st title in 1999 when he was 20.

Manny won his 2nd title in 2001 when he was 22.

Manny won his 3rd title in 2003 when he was 24.

Manny won 3 titles in 3 different weight classes before his 25th birthday. That’s a fact. That’s very difficult to do in a whole career and he did it before he was 25. More impressive is Manny skipped over junior bantamweight and bantamweight during this time. So there is a possibility he could have won 5 titles by the time he was 25.

And were supposed to believe that Khan at 24 is a better boxer than Manny at 24? Get the F U C K out of here with that s h i t!

he's probably saying that because Manny didnt start using PED's till his late 20's....Khan is already on them in his early 20's

[steeluv]

Khan is a superior boxer at 24 then PAC was at 24?

GTFOH with that nonsense Roach!

Manny won his 1st title in 1999 when he was 20.

Manny won his 2nd title in 2001 when he was 22.

Manny won his 3rd title in 2003 when he was 24.

Manny won 3 titles in 3 different weight classes before his 25th birthday. That’s a fact. That’s very difficult to do in a whole career and he did it before he was 25. More impressive is Manny skipped over junior bantamweight and bantamweight during this time. So there is a possibility he could have won 5 titles by the time he was 25.

And were supposed to believe that Khan at 24 is a better boxer than Manny at 24? Get the F U C K out of here with that s h i t!

he was pacquaio only learned to box properly later on he was a lunging slugger at this age!!! actually look at the technical side of boxing he is not saying anything about belts he says Boxer, not slugger

[-MAKAVELLI-]

it also helps that Khan gets to spar with the #1 p4p in the sport as he polishes his game...PAC didn't have that luxury

[LeadUppercut]

A stronger neck helps improve a glass chin. That's Floyd in the pic doing exactly that.

A stronger neck is less likely to snap back and to stay within a healthy range of movement as to not cause whiplash.

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True, but it is the punch that you dont see coming that does the damage, and you cannot train for that. Neck strengthening only "helps", it will not fix a glass jaw.

BTW, Khan does not have a glass jaw.

Judah WILL tag him, Khan will continue, and will most likely win a handy'ish decision.

WARRR Judah !!

[LeadUppercut]

Come on guys, Khan was CLEARLY drained at lightweight.....

Im well aware of being able to improve how well you can take punches but training neck and leg muscles does not equate to having a good chin, if you could simply train hard to make your chin better everyone in the sport would have a beard like Jake Lamotta.

Its the same as being a huge puncher they are born not made.
Khan will always have a suspect chin but like i said i think it was much worse at 135 due to him struggling to make weight.

You are **** on man, great post.

You cannot train a chin, and neck strengthening will not help a glass jaw.

Neck strengthening will go a small way to "helping" you absorb the one that you see coming, but will make no difference at all to the one that you dont see coming, the same as strengthening your legs.

You are also 100% correct on your other two points.

" Its the same as being a huge puncher they are born not made "

" i think it was much worse at 135 due to him struggling to make weight "

[bronxbeast7]

When did Khan become a southpaw?