If Khan Was Naturally Close To Canelo's Weight, Does He Knock Canelo Out?

[Scipio2009]

After clearly winning most of the rounds while the fight lasted, Khan recently confirmed that the main issue against Canelo was the weight disadvantage as many people predicted would be the case even upon initial announcement of the fight. Now he's certain that he'd stop Canelo if the odds were evenly balanced, instead of being stacked against him, so if Khan was a natural middleweight or even a light middleweight, is it likely he would KO Canelo, win a decision on the scorecards or do you believe Canelo might still be in with a shot against Khan?

If Khan was naturally close to Alvarez's weight, he'd still get done in just like Amir Khan got done in by Danny Garcia. Why do you continue to act as if that didn't happen?

Amir Khan, in his boxing, has a fatal flaw (which is arguably his greatest asset, tbf): he came into boxing with utterly brilliant handspeed, his trainers and his early trainers were so in awe of the handspeed that they forgot to teach him all of the other small tools needed to maximize his best asset.

Virgil has tried to correct a lot of that, but there's too much of the handspeed marveling already ingrained in the way Khan "feels" his boxing tools.

Amir Khan, once the instincts set in, "lingers" too long in setting up an attack and "lingers" too long in exiting an attack; rather than be content with landing a three-piece and resetting, Khan's instinct is to fire off a 5/6-punch combination and admire the speed.

The fight would play out no different; Khan will come out fast (working to listen to Virgil's gameplan but clearly seeing the difference in handspeed between himself and Alvarez), Alvarez will apply his pressure (hitting Khan to the body/off of his shoulers/wherever legal to land), the bodywork will slow Khan down and Alvarez will start to time Khan's attack pattern, and Khan will start to drown come the middle rounds (with Khan's extra girth likely extending his beating another 2-4 rounds, before he gets caught with some ****.

[Larry the boss]

No.............

[ADP02]

His problem is that he has a glass chin and terrible defense. That is a bad combination to have in this sport.

[boliodogs]

Flatline, look at anyone's pound for pound top ten list and you will see two things. First you will see that Canelo is on just about everybody's PFP top 10 best list. Second you will see that your beloved Khan is on nobody's top 10 best PFP list. Go to HBO, Ring Magazine, Boxing Scene, ESPN, Boxrec or any other top 10 best PFP list and you will find Canelo on the list and Khan not on the list. That means that the vast majority consider Canelo a better fighter PFP. If Khan and Canelo were exactly the same natural fighting weight they would pick Canelo to kick Khan's ass.