Khan vs rios your thoughts

[Njord777]

Khan would have to show instant maturity.

Between that last fight of his, during a single training camp, he's going to have to avoid all his instincts and bad habits and fight cautiously. Amir, in his first fight back from that KO, is going to have to play it safe and box. Remind himself he's a boxer/puncher and not a speedy brawler, he just doesn't have the chin for that.

Rios is tough. That can't be taken away from him, he's a tough guy who is going to fight in there. He's the sort of tough that Khan wants to be, but if he tries to be, will go to sleep.

I say Khan starts out solidly, winning a few rounds, but gets in ONE exchange, and then everything changes. He gets clipped, feels the need to answer back and fight, gets nailed, etc. downhill until its the Garcia fight all over again...

[Realism]

Golden Boy vs Top Rank, won't happen.

But it's a tough one to call imo. Rios has that inside game that Khan seems to no be able to deal with, and Khan has those long arms to keep Rios at bay. I think Rios would take this one.

[Simply Zyzz]

rios would get outboxed, badly......

[savorduhflavor]

This is false, technically Peterson and Rios are on the same level on the offensive end when it pertains to infighting. What separates the two is Rios' conditioning is better, he's an excellent uppercut artist and he's also the harder puncher. Rios' mentality is to throw with his opponents, similar to Danny Garcia, and this isn't entirely the case with Peterson who waits for the right opportunities.

I also love how your saying Rios is too slow, too basic, too easy to hit, when that perfectly describes Maidana who fought very competitively against Khan and nearly had him out. To add to that, Rios is faster than Maidana, puts his punches together a lot better and is better defensively. I see some are still overrating Khan.

Yup. People don't realize how technically sound Rios is offensively. His short distance punching is as good as there is in the game, I'd say better than Lamonts.

He may not be that fast, but he's a sharp puncher. Maidana throws wild, looping punches, Rios's are much more compact. Combine that with the fact that as soon as Khan gets a little tired his form of defense is just standing right in front of his opponent with his hands up and I really think Rios would break him down.

[Ring Leader]

Rios' power is grossly overrated at lightweight never mind 140

[Earl-Hickey]

Khan outboxes him, Maidana was a lot more dangerous

[mrpain81]

Don't see Rios having the type of power to really hurt him with 1 punch.

I got Khan by UD.

[Isaac Hunt]

This would be an interesting fight with both fighters falling short of expectations. Rios is a pressure fighter and pressure fighters are Khan's nemesis but he does not hit really hard.It is a 50 50 fight to me.

[Capaedia]

If Rios can get inside with regularity, it's going to be his fight, by KO I think.

Both hypejobs though.

[Bushbaby]

It boils down to either of 2 things. Can Khan keep busy enough & use his legs enough to win an sd?? Or will Rios last Khan's 4 round burst & outfight him to a late ko??

I'd be confident saying Rios stops him late. Rios had 1 bad fight & everyone forgot the string of dominant wins he put forth before. I find it funny considering there has been a buttload of good fighters recently that have gotten gifts but everyone overlooks those & scrutinizes Rios to no end.