Was Khan’s biggest career mistake taking on Canelo Alvarez?

**GhostofDempsey** · 11-19-2019, 03:47 PM

In his mind I think his ego made the decision for him. Losing to Canelo was expected, and thus no loss of status among his countrymen. Losing to Brook in his mind tarnishes his legacy, especially among Brits who would consider Brook the better of the two. It was the same premise as Mikey going up to fight Spence. Everyone expected him to lose, so his status or reputation doesn't take as big of a hit as it would had he been beat by Loma at 135.

**tito_bandito** · 11-19-2019, 03:59 PM

Originally posted by GhostofDempsey

In his mind I think his ego made the decision for him. Losing to Canelo was expected, and thus no loss of status among his countrymen. Losing to Brook in his mind tarnishes his legacy, especially among Brits who would consider Brook the better of the two. It was the same premise as Mikey going up to fight Spence. Everyone expected him to lose, so his status or reputation doesn't take as big of a hit as it would had he been beat by Loma at 135.

I get that but Khan had better chances of beating Brook than Mikey has of beating Loma. Mikey is a very smart fighter with decent power at his weight pass, but lacks speed. Khan had respectable power and incredible speed that would definitively trouble Brook. Khan can make opponents look hurt with fast flurries and flash KD’s like he has with Salita and LoGrecco or whatever his name is. I feel like he had a good chance of beating Brook.

**FredRekk** · 11-19-2019, 04:04 PM

He made $13Mil for that fight.
When has that ever been considered a mistake?

**kushking** · 11-19-2019, 04:11 PM

Originally posted by tito_bandito

Rather than fighting Kell Brook at Wembley stadium for more money? The weight would have favored Khan since Brook was between weight classes. Since losing to Canelo, Khan’s time off has led him to lose his speed and accuracy. Without his speed, he’s a basic fighter. He was winning the Canelo fight, but we all know that the KO was coming. Canelo was smart throwing that left hook to the body to make Khan move to the right where the right hand was coming. Anyone else feel that fight was pointless and turned Khan into a highlight reel? Prime Khan would have given Crawford problems.

He was not in any way shape or form of scoring winning vs canelo,& Khan is not basic without his speed,hes just too easily broken regardless of speed,& he has ****** strategy when it comes to going 12 rds, because he gases out by like the 5th rd due to him wasting his energy running around swinging like shenenae nonstop.

All he was doing was much worse of the same thing most nelos recent power puncher opponents have been doing, jabbing meaningless weak arm punches while getting countered & broken down rd by rd til Nelo wins later rds & decision/kos them later. The reason that has happened vs a prime jacobs was because Nelo hits harder than ggg these days & because he makes them leave hands at home from his counters .

(ggg is a heavier handed puncher,but Nelo loads up like 80% of his punches & gets everything behind a punch that is traveling much faster than gggs & his punching is always delivered in combos or combo counters fighters don't see. Ggg throws arm punvhes when it matters most,& Sanchez LITERALLY teaches fighters to arm punch with weights in their hands til they become ggg typed stiff jabbers. But he ******ly laughs at nelos punches & calls it slapping despite nelo practicing true mex style based on hooks to the body just like JCC,ggg has never been true mex style. Bottom line though is that Khan was actually the same size as nelo but like many fighters like him whom boil down he sux against men who aren't smaller because hes weak chinned has no power & likes to give up easily.

**Thuglife Nelo** · 11-19-2019, 04:13 PM

Troy King knows Khan personally. He said Khan was a mess for a long ass time recovering from trauma. Took a toll

**NearHypnos** · 11-19-2019, 04:14 PM

Originally posted by tito_bandito

Rather than fighting Kell Brook at Wembley stadium for more money? The weight would have favored Khan since Brook was between weight classes. Since losing to Canelo, Khan’s time off has led him to lose his speed and accuracy. Without his speed, he’s a basic fighter. He was winning the Canelo fight, but we all know that the KO was coming. Canelo was smart throwing that left hook to the body to make Khan move to the right where the right hand was coming. Anyone else feel that fight was pointless and turned Khan into a highlight reel? Prime Khan would have given Crawford problems.

That was the pre GGG Brook which would have hurt him regardless. Losing to Canelo is one thing, losing to Brook is another ego wise.

He was also not winning the Canelo fight. He won a round or two and was pretty much outboxed the rest of the way until he got savagely KOd. Career wise it was a better move and very worth it economically since he could probably still fight Brook for nice money. Life and health wise that was foolish though. It did have the indirect effect of getting Brook KOd by making Brook try to one up him.

Maybe Khan aint so dumb after all. He’s softening him up so he has a chance some day lmao

**baroidi** · 11-19-2019, 04:34 PM

I'm pretty sure Khan is convinced that Brook is h om o sexual , he could never live down the idea of losing to Brook because of that factor. His ****** fanbase will probably turn on him too. That fight will probably never happen.

**kushking** · 11-19-2019, 04:38 PM

Originally posted by baroidi

I'm pretty sure Khan is convinced that Brook is h om o sexual , he could never live down the idea of losing to Brook because of that factor. His ****** fanbase will probably turn on him too. That fight will probably never happen.

Heaven forbid(Literally-pun intended)the con who got outed trying to sex up a trannie, would lose a boxing match to a gay.

**kushking** · 11-19-2019, 04:46 PM

Originally posted by NearHypnos

That was the pre GGG Brook which would have hurt him regardless. Losing to Canelo is one thing, losing to Brook is another ego wise.

He was also not winning the Canelo fight. He won a round or two and was pretty much outboxed the rest of the way until he got savagely KOd. Career wise it was a better move and very worth it economically since he could probably still fight Brook for nice money. Life and health wise that was foolish though. It did have the indirect effect of getting Brook KOd by making Brook try to one up him.

Maybe Khan aint so dumb after all. He’s softening him up so he has a chance some day lmao

This shows khan won 1 rd, 2 if you want to give him a rd he tied in punches but landed less power shots in. So your assessment is on pt

Was Khan’s biggest career mistake taking on Canelo Alvarez?