Comments Thread For: Peterson-Matthysse Finalized For First Leg of 140 Tourney

[kiaba360]

This is THE fight of this tourney. It won't get better.

It'll be the most competitive imho, but I think the winner vs. Khan will be the most entertaining.

[BTTAG145]

I think it's foul how Khan is getting to just jump to the end of the tournament while all these other guys have to go to war. Khan should be right in the mix also and earn his way to the last match.
Peterson vs Matthyse is a 50/50 match. Matthyse has the power but Peterson is known for having good punch resistance. Plus Peterson is more versatile in my opinon. I think this fight has the potential to be a war.

[Almondsand]

People keep saying Matthyse but he got outboxed by Devon and Zab, Devon I can see but Zab is a four round fighter and he survived and outboxed Matthyse. If Garcia beats Zab, he is definitely my favorite for winning the tourney. Actually Garcia is already my favorite as he seems to get better every fight, the last fight he had he was telegraphing his shots to set up that killer left hook. The power he generates makes the person twist their body in the direction they got hit with the hook at. Lamont Peterson is also the most dangerous in the tournament, he just knocked out Kendall Holt in a dominant fashion, he started off slow but he neutralized everything Holt tried until he had no offense and then broke him down, and Holt was active knocking people out. Peterson just came back and destroyed him, I'm proud of him and it shows that he never needed Peds, if you look up the case it wasn't steroids, but hey people will try to find something to take credit from him.

Amir Khan ain't ****... Garcia or Peterson put a nail in his career after the tourney.

[lest26]

I think it's foul how Khan is getting to just jump to the end of the tournament while all these other guys have to go to war. Khan should be right in the mix also and earn his way to the last match.
Peterson vs Matthyse is a 50/50 match. Matthyse has the power but Peterson is known for having good punch resistance. Plus Peterson is more versatile in my opinon. I think this fight has the potential to be a war.

totaly agree, who has ever heard of a tourney where all but one contender has to earn there way to final, this should and could be an 8 man tourney but in reality this in less a tourney and more a sham by the promoters to save the failing career of Khan and the faces of GBP who have put so much into promting him, no other fighter in history has had silver spoon so big

[javierigg]

expert take peterson to win the fight

[piye]

Peterson will end the Matthyse hype.

[JRB123]

Khan could lose to all of those guys...

I am down with the Garcia-Judah winner and Peterson-Matthysse winner fighting each other, but having Khan at the end is crap. I don't think it will matter much, though...Peterson and Garcia would beat him again, and Matthysse could spark him also. If Judah gets past the two fights, he'll be much better than that first fight they had...

Khan is an enigma to me...He got ability but just seems to blank out in the ring at times...He reminds me of Naseem Hamed

[GRUSTLER]

totaly agree, who has ever heard of a tourney where all but one contender has to earn there way to final, this should and could be an 8 man tourney but in reality this in less a tourney and more a sham by the promoters to save the failing career of Khan and the faces of GBP who have put so much into promting him, no other fighter in history has had silver spoon so big

Golden Boy needs to make good on that money and hype they put into Khan.

[BetterCallSaul]

People are ignorant. These fights were already being drafted with the winners fighting each other before talk of this tournament. It's only being talked of as a tournament to put an extra shine on the fights and that's it. It's not like the SuperSix with Khan auto-drafted into the final.

Khan needs to time to rebuild, plus he's the biggest name at 140. Him being positioned as the fighter to fight the man that emerges out of match-ups fights as the best is more than just.

[Motofan]

Im glad we will get to see some competitive fights. Yeah I dont like Khan getting a free pass, but someone like Lucas will gladly fight better competition to get to a guy like Khan IMO. Its his time to show what he is made of where he cant be avoided.