Comments Thread For: Roach Shakes Head: Khan Has Balls To Call For Cotto in The Fall

[SteveM]

Khan is on a program to have some sense knocked into his skull.

Gotta stick with the program!

[SteveM]

Amazing how Khan just continues to lose every significant fight and still get considered for new ones.

If as a promoter you know it is a mis-match going in, you at least want the fall guy to be an excellent self-promoter able to speak BS confidently and eloquently. Khan has that in spades. He makes promoting a fight a lot easier. If he wasn't in boxing he'd make an excellent used car salesman.

[Blue Heffner]

Khan is taking the highest paid fights. He's okay with getting knocked out for a check, as long as it's not Brook.

[BrometheusBob.]

Taking some time off would be a good idea for Khan

Then come back with a fight against a B level fighter first

[rrayvez]

Guaranteed that A " cotto is ducking me" statement is coming from Khan soon.

[turnedup]

He's going to continue looking for the best checks he can get, if he says he has 3 to 4 fights left then he isn't going to want to fight anyone unless it's a ppv event.

[Mike_R]

It's not a terrible matchup, but I can see why team Cotto wouldn't want the fight with Khan coming off a destructive KO loss.

Just comparing their respective performances against Canelo though... It's plain to see who's the more skilled and durable fighter.

Cotto keeps a cool head and performs well through adversity, while Khan maybe tries too hard to be a cerebral fighter and then he falls victim to insane brain farts where he gets caught.

It's worth reiterating that the shot Canelo landed to flatten Khan- that wasn't the kind of punch you typically see actually land in high level fights. It wasn't even as much about Khan's chin as the fact that Khan flinched and actually reached his arm out expecting another huge body shot- and then got blasted into deep space. That same punch would have KO'd Cotto if Cotto's defense was bad enough to allow it to land.
It was a bad reflex from Khan. Cotto's reflexes fall back to solid, textbook defense (covering his chin, not creating openings).

[Gigantes]

A left hook by joto, and there goes more snot coming out of Con's nose

[Class Act]

Yeah but in all fairness Roach was shaking his head before Khan even said that.

You're bad!

[ShoulderRoll]

Why would Cotto go to the UK? I thought he really wanted the fight, but when he said "the UK..." I don't think so.

If there is significantly more money to do the fight in the UK then Cotto should jump on it.

It's a very winnable fight for Miguel even if they were to hold it in Khan's backyard in Bolton.