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Originally posted by puroylan
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leonard vs hagler? are you on drugs? hahahahaha! ive heard some choice stuff but this??? what are you khunts brother? or momma? lol -
1) Ray Leonard was way more successful at Welterweight than Khan has been and had fought above Welterweight before fighting Hagler. Ray was also in general a way more skilled boxer who had more experience against better opposition than Khan has going into this fight.Originally posted by puroylan View Post
2) Khan's defense is not spectacular. He eats hooks for breakfast. He will eventually take some big punches.
3) 140lb Maidana, Garcia, 142lb Diaz and former 140lber and renown featherfist Algieri all hurt this dude. How can he hope to take punches from a guy who squeezes to make 155 and who will outweigh him on fight night by a considerable margin?Comment
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Originally posted by HanzGruber View PostThis fight will be the epitome of why we have weight classes.
****it, no more weight classes or rankings! lets do it like that!
— Team Mikey Garcia (@mikeygarcia) febrero 2, 2016
mikey garcia a few hours ago
let's get rid of weight classes already
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This fight is a mismatch if I've ever seen one.
WTF were they thinking?
Oh yeah…..money.
Canelo (w) KO in 3 rounds.Comment
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Canelo by TKO 6 or 7 as soon as he catches up with him!Comment
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TBF,Obviously Khan is no Ray Leonard but also Canelo isn't Hagler either.Originally posted by kidbazooka View PostComment
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I don't understand why this fight is being made. It just makes no sense. I've seen some mismatches, but this is just beyond me. All Canelo needs to do is ALMOST land and he'll knock Khan out! A stiff breeze would knock Khan out!Comment
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Last weekend's Kovalev-Pascal rematch is just the latest in a long line of examples as to why a trainer is a small percentage of a fighter's success. Instead of being stopped in the eighth round like he was the first time they fought, Pascal's trainer Freddie Roach asked the referee to stop it after the seventh round. And in reality Pascal didn't fare as well the second time because he did not win a single round, compared to the first meeting when won two rounds.
Prior to the bout in my pre-fight analysis I said...
"Kovalev is too long and strong for Pascal. The last time they fought the shorter Pascal was at the mercy of Sergey's long and quicker-than-advertised jab. He had Pascal's head going back looking up at the ring lights when it landed, and that opened the path for Kovalev to land crisp right hands to Jean's jaw which shook him good and he needed to get away and recoup. What is Roach going to change about that?"
The answer to that was nothing! In the simplest terms it was too much of Roach to ask Pascal to make Kovalev miss from the outside and at the same time be in position and range to make Sergey pay for his miss. Prior to the bout Roach stressed how effective Pascal's jab was, but what he missed or wouldn't say was....Kovalev's jab is more effective than Pascal's when they face each other...
Trainers can only do so much. They can tweak fighters and sometimes those tweaks pay off. However, they cannot re-invent them stylistically, nor can they alter their physicality. If you watched the fight, Pascal was actually less effective in the rematch than he was during their first meeting. And the reason for that was, not only did he know Kovalev could hurt him, but his mind was overloaded with what he couldn't do and then the stress of what he had to do.
http://www.thesweetscience.com/news/...ce-with-pascalComment
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