Khan Fought Opposition As Good As Or Better Than Mayweather Did At 27 Years Of Age?

[-Kev-]

I think Khan's is better. I mean he beat Salita in 1 round, and the Barrera win is equal if not better to Hernandez the lineal 130 champ.

Malignaggi, Maidana, Prescott, are also equal to Castillo, Corrales, Chavez.

Molina, who had the unknown entity within him, is better than Manfredy the #2 ranked SFW at the time.

Then there's Garcia, Peterson, Diaz who Floyd doesn't even have anyone on his resume to compare them too. I ran out of fighters to compare from Floyd's limited 27 year old ressume. Khan has too many wins.


Not close, Khan P4P one of the best resumes of any fighter within 27 years old in the history of fighters who fought up to at least 27 years old.

[LacedUp]

its not comparable at all. smh. seriously whats wrong with this site???

How is it not comparable? There are champions and contenders on both records. Undefeated fighters and fighters who were established in their respective division.

Khan fought some pretty good fighters.

[LacedUp]

It's well documented his trainer troubles in this period, Malinaggi struggled in wins over N'dou and Fernandez, and got TKO'd by Hatton before the Khan fight (he beat baby bull "twice" as well I know, but he was tailor made for Paulie and was at the tail end of his career!) almost immediately Malignaggi moved to 147! I'm not saying that Paulie at 100% would beat Khan but he certainly wasn't at his best when he fought him!

Zab had fought Santa Cruz, Matthysse and Mabuza previous to Kahn and should have been beaten by a Lucas, the only reason he didn't get KO'd was because he ran the entire fight! Santa Cruz was a tomato can and Judah struggled big time against Mabuza until the TKO I thought he was fortunate! He was also 34 so you can't say he was really prime to begin with! In fact the Garcia fight was the only fight I can think of in recent memory where Judah actually seemed motivated!

Hey these are just my opinions, as I said, I commend Khan for taking all comers and he was a decent fighter but I don't feel that his record is much at 27 compared to Mayweather's and some of the fighters were not in their prime! (And I feel his days as a world class fighter are long over)

Malignaggi said beforehand he was in great shape. He was coming off a couple of good wins vs Diaz as you say, should have won both times. He also put a one-sided "beating" (nothing Malignaggi does can be classified as a beating though) against N'Dou in the first fight. He was stopped way too early in the Hatton fight - but didn't look good I agree.

Paulie broke his hand against N'dou in the rematch and there were the issues with the dreads or whatever it was and it was more a case of him being lazy than N'dou actually making it hard for him imo. He won that fight 7-5 in my book.

Basically, he was in a pretty good run of form. Especially for a fighter that, if we're honest, was nothing more than pretty good. I don't think he was especially better in any fight than he was in the first N'dou fight or the second Diaz fight.

Zab probably did lose a decision to Matthysse, but I thought he put up a good showing. I didn't say he was prime, but he wasn't in a "major slump" having just come off a couple of good wins and had picked up a belt in the progress. Khan was the fav, but I don't think people expected him to put a beating on Zab like he did and make him quit.

[Grimgash]

How is it not comparable? There are champions and contenders on both records. Undefeated fighters and fighters who were established in their respective division.

Khan fought some pretty good fighters.

The champions and contenders are of vastly different quality. It shouldn't really be in discussion. The champion / contender thing is used to suit arguments, Floyds fought nothing but champions / contenders recently but people knock him for not fighting who they call the best fighters. It goes both ways.

[LacedUp]

The champions and contenders are of vastly different quality. It shouldn't really be in discussion. The champion / contender thing is used to suit arguments, Floyds fought nothing but champions / contenders recently but people knock him for not fighting who they call the best fighters. It goes both ways.

Go back to my OP and see thats exactly what I wrote. A few people on Floyds resume makes it better. But it's not like he fought one HOFer after another in those days. And people are criticizing Khans resume because it's Khan. He's fought some pretty decent fighters for his era. There's really only one or two he didn't fight like Bradley and Alexander. Maybe Matthysse.

The quality of Floyd's resume is better though at that stage.

[Bushbaby]

I honestly cannot tell if you're a troll fix, or if you actually believe the $h!t you come up with.

[RubenSonny]

Chavez is easily better than everyone on Khans except for Garcia (possibly).

[Rip Chudd]

[F!x]

Chavez is easily better than everyone on Khans except for Garcia (possibly).

Jesus Chavez was decent in his prime, but he was never an elite fighter - his record is fluffed up. But this isn't about who fought the single best opponent, it's about all opponents combined up to the age of 27.

Interestingly enough, Chavez got knocked out by Julio Diaz (Khan's last opponent) in 3 rounds. He was past prime at that point but Diaz may have beaten him in his prime too although not so easily. So Julio Diaz might actually be better than Jesus Chavez, and Julio Diaz is on Khan's record, not Mayweather's...

[F!x]

I honestly cannot tell if you're a troll fix, or if you actually believe the $h!t you come up with.

just like I believed Dawson would be weight-drained and defeated easily by Ward when most people thought I was trolling..

I predicted mayweather would put drug-testing in the Pacquiao contract years ago.. big @ss thread about it.. 3 weeks later ellerbe came out and said it was going to be put in the contract...

I predicted emanuel steward was brain-dead and on life-support when there were rumors going back and forth about him being dead because some of his friends were saying he was while his immediate family were telling everyone to stop lying... it turned out he was brain-dead and on life-support as predicted..

I could go on but you get the idea...