Comments Thread For: Amir Khan Feels He Stayed at 140 For Way Too Long

[Isaac Hunt]

If you look at Khan's loses you will see they are all to bigger taller guys Prescott,Peterson and Garcia. Khan's style was perfect for beating up on shorter smaller fighters where he had a height and reach advantage. At WW he will be fighting men his size and bigger where his style is not as effective, I just don't see him doing as well at WW as LWW. Collazo weighed in at 160 Lbs on fight night when he fought Ortiz,I am pretty sure Khan will look and be the smaller man in the ring. That is not a role he is used to or suits his style, his lack of infighting skills will show up more against bigger men.

[Black Barty]

Well after moving to 140lbs he did beat Kotelnik, Malignaggi, Maidana and Judah.

Exactly my thought. His punch resistance did improve when he moved up from 135 to 140. Kotelnik hit him with some nice single shot counters, and he was uneffected. Maidana landed monster shots on him in the second half, and he was hurt but didn't go down. Maybe moving up will help this time, too.

[kafkod]

khan was a lot stronger at 140 when he first moved up but as time went by he outgrew that division too.. started becoming weight-drained at 140 like he had been at 135..

at 147 theres a good possibility khan shows the same sort of strength he did when he first moved upto 140 and if that happens its game over for the rest of the welterweight division.

He did look very good for a while at 140. His performance vs Maidana seems even better now than it did back then. Will he look as good again at 147? Will he be able to fight the way Hunter wants him to against a strong, aggresive guy like Collazo? We'll see.

[takingaim]

If you look at Khan's loses you will see they are all to bigger taller guys Prescott,Peterson and Garcia. Khan's style was perfect for beating up on shorter smaller fighters where he had a height and reach advantage. At WW he will be fighting men his size and bigger where his style is not as effective, I just don't see him doing as well at WW as LWW. Collazo weighed in at 160 Lbs on fight night when he fought Ortiz,I am pretty sure Khan will look and be the smaller man in the ring. That is not a role he is used to or suits his style, his lack of infighting skills will show up more against bigger men.

Garcia's the same height as Khan and Peterson is only 1/2 inch taller. It's not significant.

[alexguiness]

lol if porter took the risks against khan that he did against paulie then khan would have stopped porter in 2 rounds max. thats all it would have took. paulie just didnt have the power to hurt porter but he did land some good shots. khan would have finished that version of porter with ridiculous ease

Khan stopping Porter inside 2 rounds?

That is an interesting thought...

Boxing is all about risk management, which is why Porter took calculated risks to land on Paulie.

He would do the same with Khan, except that Khan would go down quicker with his ridiculously weak chin.

Paulie went down after he ate a lot of big shots, it was cumulative.

With Khan you only need to land once, then his legs just go - he never recovers.

[gary j. stout]

he should move up to upper category now

[FlatLine]

Khan stopping Porter inside 2 rounds?

That is an interesting thought...

Boxing is all about risk management, which is why Porter took calculated risks to land on Paulie.

He would do the same with Khan, except that Khan would go down quicker with his ridiculously weak chin.

Paulie went down after he ate a lot of big shots, it was cumulative.

With Khan you only need to land once, then his legs just go - he never recovers.

Khan literally dominated and shut out Paulie, they aren't even in the same league. Porter landed good shots on Paulie but he wouldnt take those risks against Khan because if he did he'd get stopped quick.. And I mean real quick.

he aint doing that.. he'd try to fight Khan like he fought Alexander.. by brawling on the inside and closing the distance. Peterson had some success doing that against Khan so Porter would try to imitate that game plan just like he imitated part of Bradley's game plan against Alexander..

[Isaac Hunt]

Garcia's the same height as Khan and Peterson is only 1/2 inch taller. It's not significant.

What is significant is the only guys at have beaten Khan are his size or . He clearly fares better against smaller men.

[takingaim]

Peterson was juicing. Let's be fair now, that is not a loss on Khan's record.

[Isaac Hunt]

Peterson was juicing. Let's be fair now, that is not a loss on Khan's record.

The point I am making is that Khan does not perform as well against bigger men and KHAN'S performance against Peterson was poor. The PED issue has no bearing on the point I am making.His style is perfect for fighting shorter smaller men but clearly is not as effective when fighting men his size or bigger.