Crawford-Khan Predictions

How is barclays as a venue? Sightlines, view from different areas of the arena for boxing, etc?

 

Barclays is a great fight venue! Crowd is electric and deafening., and I find the views better than the Garden. I'd love to go there again sometime this year.

Great venue in general - I saw a Maxwell/Nas concert there back in 2016.

It can't fuck with the Garden as an NBA venue, but I think it's a better fight and concert venue.

 

It was between the two, yes, I'd certainly prefer Brook over Ramirez.

Even though he's faded, Brook is still a higher caliber than Ramirez.

 

I don't know if he quit for that reason alone.

If you told Khan he had a 10% chance of winning and a 90% chance of being laid out like a dirty prayer mat, he'd take those percentages and fight on.

He didn't quit because he knew he was going to lose. He quit because he knew he was going to get embarrassed so badly that there could never be a Brook fight and he'd finish his career on his ass in a bad way.

When he went down in the first round, he threw his gloves around his head on his way down like a child. He's a badly damaged guy.

In a few years, Khan won't be comprehensible, I am sure of it.

 

Khan will probably speak normally in a few years.

Guys who get sparked out quickly like Khan don't seem to incur the most damage.

It's guys who take sustained beatings who end up slurring.

Khan definitely quit out of fear of the inevitable.

Crawford was killing his body, muscling him around the ring, hitting hit at while, every fucking thing. It was only a matter of time. It was the 6th, I'm thinking Khan would have been finished by the 8th or 9th.

Hunter and Khan, like Horn before them, underestimated Crawford's physical strength. All this "I'm the bigger man!' bullshit... Crawford was pushing Khan around like a child.

 

Khan had no size or power in there. He used to look massive when he was younger, at 135 and 140.

Even at 135, Prescott monstered him, made him look small.


He looked small and smooth, kind of flaccid in there last night.

 

Khan's power always came from his handspeed. He's not heavy handed - all his stoppages have been because of his speed. And his handspeed and athleticism have declined a lot from circa 2010 peak.

But even at his peak, it's not like he would have ever beaten Crawford.

 

Most every fight costs 60 bucks or you have to sign up for a streaming service like DAZN or ESPN or purchase a package like Showtime which includes a whole lot of other bundles.

 

You gonna come do it, schmuckdog?

 

Only went there for an NBA game but I thought it was nice with good sightlines

 

Barclays looks lame for an NBA game. Even with the Nets in the playoffs it seems lame.

You should go for a fight, its great.

If Spence-Porter lands at Barclays, I'll spend big bread to get close seats.

But I dont think that's gonna happen. I think its headed to Cowboy stadium.

 

They need to do some serious work on Crawford's image and marketability. Guy's been boxing pro for over a decade and still is largely unknown despite his flawless record. He doesn't have the superstar appeal to him like what Trinidad, Vargas, Hamed, Pacquiao, Mayweather, DLH had. Would've thought he'd have been a much bigger deal at this stage. Nobody even knows who he is outside of hardcore boxing fans.

 

So is Spence-Crawford gonna happen or not? Am telling you Crawford is winning that shit, I've said it all along.

 

Boxing is leaving Amir Khan behind after Terence Crawford defeat | Bryan Armen Graham

On one hand the former welterweight champion is only 32 in a trade where advances in nutrition and training techniques have made fighters who can still operate at a high level into their late thirties more common than ever before.

But the inconvenient truth facing Khan as he picks up the pieces from Saturday’s latest setback is he is campaigning in a talent-stacked welterweight division that includes two champions who appear in the top five of most pound-for-pound lists (Crawford and Spence), a pair of younger and primer American title-holders in Keith Thurman and Shawn Porter, followed by another tier of contenders including Danny Garcia, Manny Pacquiao and Yordenis Ugas, all of whom are capable of giving the Bolton fighter a tough day at the office at his best.

But flat notes borne from mismanagement and bad luck seemed to hit at the most inopportune times: whether the 54-second destruction against Breidis Prescott in his 19th paying fight, the tactically inept knockout defeat at the left hand of Garcia, the end of his second and in all likelihood final world title reign in a dubious hometown decision against Lamont Peterson, who was subsequently found to be using performance-enhancing drugs.

There were professional missteps and humiliations: like his ugly divorce from his former trainer Freddie Roach and twice putting his career on hold to pursue a fight with Floyd Mayweather only to be left twice at the altar by the impish American shot-caller. (And let it be said that Khan’s particular skill set at that time would have given late-period Mayweather’s brittle hands more trouble than one might expect.)

 

You hear that folks? Tough day at the office for our boy Khan if he faces Garcia again. And Mayweahters brittle hands, yo.

 

It's the only fight I really really want to see

 

This is boxing, when the fuck do we ever get what we want? I would say that no, it wont happen.

I'm sticking to my guns in picking Spence, but it's a 50-50 fight.. which is why we deserve it.

But we won't get it.

 

The only good matchup that will realistically happen this year is Prograis vs Taylor.

Not that any casuals will give a shit about that fight, but it's the best matchup us hardcores can realistically expect to see in 2019.

Spence-Crawford ain't happening anytime soon. Joshua-Wilder ain't happening anytime soon. Loma-Davis ain't happening anytime soon... and Loma-Garcia is never happening, let's be honest.

 

I don't particularly care for Loma-Garcia anymore anyway.

 

Khan after the low blow...

 

Khan went into the tank faster than Eliza Lam

 

After bilking the public with a bullshit showcase undercard and crap PPV, Arum insults us further by claiming Garcia is not a real opponent for Crawford (the same Garcia who ko'd Khan quicker and more convincingly than Crawford). Now I'm sure Garcia has no plans to face Crawford anyway. But for Arum to try to spin this as anything other than Top Rank having a shit stable , like I said, is insulting. If Crawford faced Garcia, it would be the best fighter he's faced.

 

The Mikey Garcia that lost to Spence would beat Khan.

 

Yeah but the author is referring to DANNY GARCIA, who has already beaten him.

 

Arum like most promoters is scum. They don't give a shit about their fighters or the fans. It's only about getting every last blood out of a stone possible.

 

puerto rock thinks all people who speak Spanish are the same.

 

Who do you pick to win?

 

I see

 

I lean toward Spence... I think he's just too strong but it's hardly a sure thing

 

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