Comments Thread For: Collazo on Loss To Amir Khan: "Mentally I Wasn't There"

[Veneficus]

This new type of excuse I'm seeing a lot of these days. Being physically 100% perfect but mentally 'not there', whatever that means.

Froch has said the same thing about the Groves fight. So has Alvarado about Provodnikov.

Whatever, fighters have to do what they can to avoid accepting the fact they were fairly beaten by the superior man.

Groves lost, your theory fails.

[EXPOSEDheroes]

"Minor injury" - The guy hurt his pinky.

Get the *** outta here

Maybe you have never boxed before but a tendon issue while not a broken arm, does create problems with the hand.

I see you wanna glorify Amir Chin as it brings you some sense of U.K. pride and all but, it's only a matter of months before Amir is on his back wondering what went wrong again.

[Risen]

Keep you hands down if you like to get punched.

[MBE]

Groves lost, your theory fails.

Froch blamed not being mentally focused for a bad performance like the others, my theory holds.

[Kaimuki49]

Luis certainly did not fight his best fight. He is not a Hall of Famer, but he is much better than most give him credit for. The take away from the Khan fight however is that it is way past time for refs to call Khan on his incessant holding. Modern day fighters are generally quite athletic and hit hard, most have good speed, but the ability to fight inside is lost on nearly all of them. Clinching and infighting is sadly a lost aspect. Everyone wants to dazzle and throw a blindingly fast punch, usually a single, and then hold, wait for a break by the ref, then repeat the same routine. That's not boxing. If a fighter is willing to fall inside then he needs to be prepared to do something more than force his opponet's head down and/or hold, which Khan is the current champion of. Unfortunately, it's not boxing.

[PRPOWERPUNCHES]

Truth is, Collazo was not there physically. Poor training and a damaged hand.

The Collazo that fought Mosley and got robbed by Hatton was not present for Khan. If you think that was the best Luis Collazo, you must be new to the sport.

Mannn, I'm so pissed off at Louie..Not only for losing but losing to a straight up bum..He should get his Brooklyn card revoked..The truth of the matter is Collazo like manny other fighters today are getting bought out, straight up...I lost all respect for Collazo and won't support that bum until I see what fight they promised to give him for taking the dive..Losing to a ***ing pu$$y...

PRPP

[Veneficus]

Froch blamed not being mentally focused for a bad performance like the others, my theory holds.

It wasn't even a bad performance though, it was a good fight against a young, hungry fighter with fast hands and solid power.

[Cnota21]

Luis certainly did not fight his best fight. He is not a Hall of Famer, but he is much better than most give him credit for. The take away from the Khan fight however is that it is way past time for refs to call Khan on his incessant holding. Modern day fighters are generally quite athletic and hit hard, most have good speed, but the ability to fight inside is lost on nearly all of them. Clinching and infighting is sadly a lost aspect. Everyone wants to dazzle and throw a blindingly fast punch, usually a single, and then hold, wait for a break by the ref, then repeat the same routine. That's not boxing. If a fighter is willing to fall inside then he needs to be prepared to do something more than force his opponet's head down and/or hold, which Khan is the current champion of. Unfortunately, it's not boxing.

I agree 100% with your post. Sadly the new generation of boxing fans dont see any of that. They just believe in the hype and illusion the media creates for them

[MBE]

It wasn't even a bad performance though, it was a good fight against a young, hungry fighter with fast hands and solid power.

I agree he came up against a top notch fighter but deep down he knows it shouldn't have been stopped and has tried to rationalize why he was losing up to that point. He came to use the same excuse as Alvarado and now Collazo.

[Cnota21]

Khan made Luis Collazo look ordinary and that's that. Now it's about NSB going crazy over how Collazo was a bum blah blah blah.

Everyones been saying collazo is a bum even before the fight. Its clearly the only reason Khans team chose him over the dangerous fighter Keith Thurman