I've been saying for a while that this fight would happen. Khan has confirmed it's in his sights and Lamont Peterson fits the criteria completely:
- less than 50% KO ratio
- Coming off losses to other welterweights or lightwelterweights
- Not at the top of his career
- Someone people know, but don't care about
- Former light welterweight
Khan originally said he was never fighting Peterson again, after Peterson was found to have test pellets in his system. But after the rest of the top welterweights amassed a KO ratio of more than 50% (except for Floyd who's on 54%), his options are really running out.
He's already taken care of a number of low hanging fruits and bigged them up as beasts like Devon Alexander, Luis Collazo and Chris Algieri who all fall in under all of the categories above (except Collazo is a true WW), so now he's targeting the next in line - Peterson.
So this fight is likely to happen in November/December.
What do you feel about this next cherrypick from Khan? Is this the fight that will get him Mayweather?
http://boxingjunkie.com/2015/05/27/a...mont-peterson/
- less than 50% KO ratio
- Coming off losses to other welterweights or lightwelterweights
- Not at the top of his career
- Someone people know, but don't care about
- Former light welterweight
Khan originally said he was never fighting Peterson again, after Peterson was found to have test pellets in his system. But after the rest of the top welterweights amassed a KO ratio of more than 50% (except for Floyd who's on 54%), his options are really running out.
He's already taken care of a number of low hanging fruits and bigged them up as beasts like Devon Alexander, Luis Collazo and Chris Algieri who all fall in under all of the categories above (except Collazo is a true WW), so now he's targeting the next in line - Peterson.
So this fight is likely to happen in November/December.
What do you feel about this next cherrypick from Khan? Is this the fight that will get him Mayweather?
http://boxingjunkie.com/2015/05/27/a...mont-peterson/
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