Amir Khan v. Marcos Maidana

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I got Khan to win this. Skills normally overcomes power. I see this as a Trinidad-Mayorga type fight, maybee Khan will be hurt along the way but will beat Maidana down late.

 

Is that you Hex?

 

If Maidana lands one good shot, he knocks Khan out. Simple as that.

So Khan is gonna have to box a perfect fight.

I don't believe Khan's team really wanted this fight. It just fell onto them because Marquez didn't want to fight Khan plus the media pressure has gotten to Khan.

I see Khan starting well in the early rounds with his jab and running. By the mid rounds I think Maidana will start to make it rough inside which will throw Khan off his game and force him to fight more and thats all it will take for Maidana to land a bomb and turn Twitter boy's lights out.

Maidana KO 8

 

No! :giggle:

 

Can't wait for this one! Khan all the way boys.

 

Khan will smash that cunt

 

Same here. Maidana has become insanely overrated based off of the Ortiz fight.

 

And Khan has become insanely overrated off the Malignaggi and Kotelnik fights.


Smaller, slower dudes without any real punching power.

Khan has been dropped and hurt to the body by guys like Michael Gomez.

 

Yea god forbid he's actually, you know, like....improved since then, surely not

 

Khan is the one over-rated. I can't remember Maidana ever getting stretched by a journeyman.

 

We don't know if he has. Who has he fought that came forward in a bruising dogged style, banged him to the body and the head and was really capable of hurting him?

Face it, he has been very very carefully matched, and Roach is making or taking this fight off the basis of the Corley fight.

Clearly, he thinks Khan can pot shot and run his way to a decision. If that's an improvement, so be it, cos his chin is still mush and he still get's hurt to the body.

 

Maidana is limited, and so is Khan. The question is whose limitations get exposed first.

 

Khan is basically the 140lb version of Wlad. Except worse to watch.

I'd expect him to beat Maidana though

 

Not even close. Not even close. Sorry bud, but Wlad comes forward, and is far more economical and precise. He also takes a better shot. Wow. Bad comparison.:Wah:

 

Like fuck it's based off the Corley fight. Here we go with the nitpicking again, some people are never satisfied. He called out maidana straight after Malignaggi, and now he's fighting him next. If Maidana decided to have a fight in the meantime and look like shit that's his own problem.

 

:laughing::laughing:

 

:laugh11:

 

Maidana might be the most overrated fighter in the world right now. He has done almost nothing worthwhile save beat Ortiz in a very entertaining affair and lose narrowly to a bloke Khan shut-out. Yet some would have you believe that he is an unstoppable wrecking machine...

MTF :dunno:

 

I don't know that it's over-rated, just that most expect him to beat Khan. I don't think the two things necessarily go hand in hand, given that Khan was KTFO brutally by what's his name.

 

:Giggle:

 

Usually in a case like this, I'd say I'm giving Maidana the proverbial puncher's chance. But in this particular instance, it seems like so much more than that due to Khan's chin being amongst the worst I've ever seen on the world stage.

The only time Khan has been in the ring with someone who packed at least moderate power he got wobbled by a jab in the first 20 seconds and knocked silly in less than 60 seconds. So I can't for the life of me picture Khan absorbing the full sting of a power puncher like Maidana.

I expect Khan to dazzle until he gets clipped on the chin. After that, I see a quick and brutal ending in favor of Maidana.

 

I don't think he is unstoppable, he is hittable, and if he is hittable, he can be stopped.

But the truth of the matter is that for all of Khan's "improvements".....Maidana still represents a distinct step up in terms of style and approach from the guys Khan has been fighting.

There is a common thread with all of Khan's post-Prescott opponents....little on the small side, little on the slow side, little on the mechanical side, little on the underpowered side.

Maidana has done something Khan has never done- get off the floor to flat-out bust up and stop a guy who was faster and just as big and a lot more skilled.

If Khan can defuse the guy with his running and his handspeed and his overall leap amateurism, then fine. If he stops him, then even better. But I want to see him take clean head and body shots and come out on top before I can safely say he has erased the stench of the Prescott fight.

 

If it bleeds.....we can kill it!:fightme:

 

Honestly I think they are both overrated.

Khan has good attributes, handspeed, and um, well, really good handspeed, and um, reach. But he lacks proper power and solid ring intelligence, he's still amateurish and 1 dimensional pot shotter.

Maidana is certainly a fighter worthy of respect. Tough and powerful. But he too is a bit overrated based on the Ortiz fight, where else has he looked that legit?

I'm honestly not sure who to pick in this fight. I could see Khan pot shotting maidana all night with his speedy, rangey, amateur shots and just outscoring Maidana by a huge margin, and I can also see Maidana landing one shot and knocking Khan out cold.

I'll go with Maidana by KO because I dislike Khan.

 

Khan will never get credit because he is so good

 

This generation's Pernel Whitaker.

 

I give credit to Khan, he's taking a big risk here. He has the skill to outpoint Maidana but as almost everybody said, I don't think he can deal with Maidana's power. That's why I lean toward Maidana, but I wouldn't surprised if Khan was able to stay safe for the whole fight, he has the physical attributes and the skills to execute that kind of fight plan.

 

"WHAT"?????:scratcher: