Comments Thread For: De La Hoya Breaks Down Speed vs. Power Fights of The Past

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LOS ANGELES -WBC, Ring Magazine and Lineal Middleweight World Champion Canelo Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) and British top fighter and former two-time former world champion Amir "King" Khan (31-3, 19 KOs)will bring every ounce of their speed and power when they meet in the ring on May 7 at the new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas and live by HBO Pay-Per-View(r) beginning at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT.
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[bopbopbbe]

What about the narrative for a chinny smaller fighter fighting a much bigger fighter.

[Slyboots]

You know it's a mismatch when the promoter spends all his time during the build up trying to sell the opponent.

[Boxfan83]

Cant blame Oscar for trying to promote this fight but I think we all know smart$ is on Canelo for a reason. We all know Canelo isnt as fast as Khan but Canelo does have enough speed to punch with him and thats all he will need to do. Khans best chance is catching Canelo cold but he isnt going to come out like that. Itll be a victory for Khan if he gets past 6.

[puroylan]

Oscar is trying so hard to sell the fight. If Khan gets lucky and beat Canelo (if) then Oscar will be crying to loose his cash cow. Regardless, I'm still gonna watch the fight..interesting.

[Pozomuro]

Lay off the yeyo Oscar. Khan is no Leonard or Ali.

[lopez36]

he's trying too hard to make it seem like this is an even fight,

[skinnystev]

nothing more than fishnets trying to justify a mismatch

[elfag]

sure Oscar, I'll play along


Foreman vs Ali
- same weight class
- Ali had iron jaw at this point
- youre not really comparing Khan to Ali ... cant be


SRL vs Hagler
- comparing Khan to SRL.... ok
- SRL had an iron jaw
- SRL had an amazing record at 147, khan, not so much
- Hagler was in his 30s, last fight. Nelo is 25


Taylor vs Chavez
- Chavez was the one who moved up from 135
- so how does this fit?
- anyways, taylor almost won, the arguably larger and faster guy

DLH vs Ike
- disputed win
- same weight division
- DLH had an iron jaw

DLH v Vargas
- vargas already KTFO by trinidad
- Nelo never been KTFO
- by the way DLH had power, khan not so much
- ditto DLH way better chin than Khan




We dont even know what Khan's speed will look like at 155, what we do know is Nelo has fast hands at 154/155 and khans speed advantage is only going down with the move up in weight. He leaves himself wide open for counters and has a glass jaw, hes a KO waiting to happen against a bigger, accurate counter puncher with fast hands.

[Larry the boss]

Please let's get this over with, it is getting sickening