Did Khan dominate Pacquiao During Sparring a Session?
September 7th, 2009
By Manuel Perez: The latest word that I’m hearing is that World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KO’s) dominated Manny Pacquiao (49-3-2, 37 KO’s) in their sparring sessions at trainer Freddie Roach’s Wildcard Gym, in Los Angeles not too long ago.
It looks like Pacquiao is too slow and not able to keep up with the speed and power of Khan. Obviously, this is just a small segment of their sparring sessions but I can imagine it probably got much worse than this in the other portions of their sparring. I think this might not be a good fight down the road for Khan. Pacquiao looked like a child against Khan and was really getting his backside kicked in a royal fashion.
If Pacquiao doesn’t get beaten up too badly by Miguel Cotto, Juan Manuel Marquez or Floyd Mayweather Jr., a fight against Khan might not be a bad idea. It looks like here that Khan has too much speed, reach, power and height for Pacquiao. I guess that means there would be some kind weight draining catch weight stipulation for Khan to get him weak enough to make a fight of it for Pacquiao. I could see Khan having to drain down to super featherweight to make this fight happen.
I don’t think it would matter. Khan is young enough to drop weight without it hurting him and Pacquiao would find himself in for a long night much like his first fight against Erik Morales and his two fights against Marquez. I sure hope Pacquiao doesn’t quit to go into politics.
I’d like to see Khan spar with Pacquiao some more, but this time for a full 12 rounds. Khan would probably do well against Pacquiao for 12 rounds like he’s seen here in the video and make an easy fight of it. Khan appears to really have Pacquiao’s number in the video.
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The point of sparring is for the champ to work on 1 thing. For all we know, Pacquiao could have simply been working on his defense in that video.
Whoever takes this article seriously must have never been in a boxing gym.
Stupid Perez always deletes my comment….what the F^(*&….
This guy should be banned by his publication from writing…
This video shows that Pacman is practicing his defense…nuf said
Mr. Perez from where did you natke this video..? sparring is a sparring and the intentions is not to KO or badly hurt both fighters., this is not a real fight, both moves had its specific fundamentals to be followed to create the same movements when it comes to real fight. What ever Roach had been saying is part of a promotion and to give Khan a confidence in his fight. I was there and I saw how Khan was badly hurt everytime Pacquiao hit him hard that is not part of the instruction, like a friendly shot, but still Khan got KO, try to talk Khan and asked his opinion if he really beat Manny as what you are stated. my Question is why you hate Manny so much? is it part of the Promotion for Manny to get more attention, and at the end of the day you are laughing and shaking the hand of Manny.
You are a moron. I know people in Wild Card and they said Manny dropped Khan 8 times in the lead up to the Hatton fight. Also Khan couldn’t keep up with his endurance training either. What are you talking about seriously.
Im not sure what video ur watching… i didn’t see khan connect at all… i saw pacquiao land a couple uppercuts and lefts… I hope cotto reads this and gains misguided confidence in this…
it was only a sparring session. nothing more.
this is an tactic of perez so that more people would read his article, even thou almost every comment is insulting him… psychology…. pacman toyed with khan in this video with pin-point accuracy combinations… i think the writer should get his brain fixed..
wow manuel perez you must really hate pacquaio for you to always write stuff about him negatively. you must be really annoyed every single time you see the pacman or hear his name. i pity you for you anger and hatred. but then again that is how you measure someone else character as well. so i can clearly say you are not a good person. too much hatred and madness on one single man. geesh, and that’s a one way ticket to hell.
“I’d like to see Khan manhandle Pacquiao some more” what the heck did pacquiao do to you? Why hate him so much???
Khan toying pacquiao? Jezz are you kiding me? Khan was knocked down in their sparring session. This website always discredit pacquiao’s achievements.
they both were wearing masks..
both are getting hit..
simple:
the question is who has the chin
to stand up to all those punishment..
if pacquiao were to battle khan today..
it will be swift and bloody..
i put my money on pacquiao as he has the chin to weather anything khan can throw at him…
pacquiao almost took amir khans head-off during their sparring session, try to look for that mr perez or whatever!
LOL there wearing head gear so Khans fragile chin is being protected
I usually am the first to slate the “experts” on this sight but I can see the points your making.. i think also the point on the fight being more brutal in the rest of the sparring is fair.. if i got beat up in sparring for a fight with big money involved i wouldnt want a video showing it.. makes sense. a final point: freddie said it was a huge risk putting these two together.. Khan being vulnerable and pacquiao being famously explosive.. there might of been a big of holding back from pacquiao.
I’m happy of Manny lose that sparring and it a good thing..why?
This is a good lesson for manny to find out on what something that he lack. Manny is a good pupil and he is willing to learn more…
Khan KO’d (well, dropped) someone at the Lympic games did he not? with head gear on, I heard the commentator saying that this was the 1st in that specific lympic games..?? check out youtube!
Another thing, Bob Arum offered Khan to fight Pacquaio before he signed to fight Cotto. Amir and his team turned the offer down.
If he was so dominant as you claim, surely he would take the fight in a heartbeat, destroy Pac and become a superstar. But no, he said it was “too soon”…
That video shows nothing apart from the fact Khan held his own with the P4P number 1 for less than a round. Credit to Khan, but you can’t detract from Pacquaio’s achievements in the ring. Sparring is very different to the real thing….
dont even need to read this. Khan would get flattened by manny in 1 round in a real match
That’s a pretty desperate article, even for Perez…
The fighters have been told to go easy and spar for 4 rounds only. The bits they filmed where for exhibition purposes to promote Khan’s ‘improvement’ under Roach.
Lastly, notice the headguard, Einstein? Khan desperately needs this, it’s the only reason Khan is allowed into the ring with Manny.
I expected more from Perez…
What video where you watching? I definitley didn’t see Khan “kicking Pacquiao’s backside”. Pac Man was landing the clean punches.Not to mention he blocked the majority of the punches thrown by Khan.Besides like you said this was only a small segment,so you really have no idea how many rounds Pac Man had sparred prior to this video.And with how many partners he had gone through.
khan was just aggressive cuz he wore a head protector.
lets talk about jm marquez. i heard the 2nd 24/7 episode is interesting
Ive watched quite abit of manny sparring and the one thing ive always noticed is that he never goes all out in sparring sessions as its just sparring and its the actual fights that matter.
Funny stuff,people get so upset about these articles why do they read them.
what do you expect…
After watching 30 seconds, i saw at least 4 shots that would have ended the fight. Khan was on the receiving end of all of them.
brill article go khan
this is an old video on youtube, when khan just moved to the wildcard gym when he was still at lightweight. But pacman wasn’t looking too good and was being fed instructions through out that session.
Get your facts straight. Khan is one of the 3 sparring partners that Manny knocked to the floor.
the guy writing this is a total pleb, i don’t even know why i’m bothering commenting, never mind reading the article….
Sparring Sessions involve everything, yes your entitled to try to knock out the next man your sparring with… Khan and Pac-man’s corner’s job is to their best to show Pac-man what he is going up against. Khan was fighting souphpaw and they chose him because his weight and reach advantage is like Cotto’s. The whole point of Pac-man sparring with him is because proffessional sparring must be done with someone that is similar to any fighter’s next opponent.
Although I am not convinced because this short video wasn’t even an entire round. I am a Pac-man fan aswell as a Cotto fan and I can guarentee anyone that Cotto will be too much for Pac-man whom is being very much over-rated. Look at all the talk about his power advantage… It’s way too clearly obvious, just out in the open.
Pac-man has always had a hard time while running backwards, he then has no choice but to swing wildy and hope to land in a good lucky slick punch, even with his eyes closed. Let’s not forget how much pressure Cotto applies.
In this vid Pac was definitely not throwing a lot of punches on purpose. It looks like he was intentionally taking those shots from Khan.
Did Pacquiao bang your wife or something? What did Pac ever do to you? You are unable to write without heavy bias. Be careful in what you say because you may eat your own words in a couple of months. I’m sure that you will make up some excuses if Pac beats Cotto.
You must be really hating Pacquiao so much writing this kind of articles, which you know very well it´s untrue. The problem is no matter how much you make negative articles against Pacquiao, he will be more love by majority of the people, because he never harms anyone. He is kind and generous man who works hard unlike you.
I didn’t know if you had watch in full but what I saw was the other way around…there were instructions from Buboy that you don’t understand which Pacquiao followed to the letter…please have it translated so that you will understand why…i.e..get hit and hit back when instructed to do so….so now you know why it appears that in some instances Pacquiao got hit during sparring sessions..so should have understand the beauty in his execution upon instruction..he can have it his way had he wanted…
i watched this video on youtube before the hatton fight and lets be fair….. manny didnt look to bad in that fight.
mmm.. he didnt dominate at all, was close but tbh pac landed the better punches i think but this is gd, looks like khan is coming along well
FOR EVERYBODY;;;;;;KHAN GOT KNOCK DOWN DURING THE SPARRING THAT THEY HAD TO STOP THE FIGHT AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WITNESS IT, INCLUDING MYSELF @ THE WILDCARD …..READ THIS OK PEREZ””
I’m British and without the head guard Khan would have been KO’ed.
It was just sparring(practice). I’m pretty sure pacquiao could of taken him out in a real match. I’d pay to see Bradley/Khan and JM Marquez/Valero and Pacquiao/ Mayweather in 2010.
I’m an amatuer boxer, not exactly the best (yet) but I do have experience, I spar twice a week; and some truth? No all truth. In sparring you work on an area, it’s not a fight. Today I worked on landing right body hooks for example. The trainer will tell the fighters the situation and they work from there.
perez is a weinereater
Look how the Pacquiao sycophants are quick to try and explain away the beating that Khan was giving him. Are you imbeciles going to pay attention to your own eyes or what?
If you look closely at the video Pacman was landing the crisp clean shots. Looking at that Khan is no good on the back foot and seems to walk in straight lines. This colum was not all rubbish but do get your facts right Perez
Well it wouldnt be good if Manny sparked out Khan during sparring. He was after all just there to help Khan get ready for his title fight. I wouldnt look into it too much, its just a clip of Manny trying to give Khan a bit of confidence.
I wouldn’t say he dominated him,only beat him.How old is this video.
Look, Khan is great mates with Frankie Gavin and it’s no secret that Khan was sparked cold at least three times during different sparring sessions with Manny. Khan admitted this to Gavin!!! Watch all the vids of them sparring on you tube. Manny is playing with him, and anytime Khan takes one liberty too many Manny whacks him back into place. If they fought Khan would be KO’d quick time!!!
khan did look good there but he also got hit with some big shots sparring is sparring its not 100% you can have all the boxing skill or none at all but if you aint got heart, stamina, a decent chin if youve overtrained under trained weight drained all these factors matter on the night so you can never predict what could happen when you put 2 fighters in the ring together
Alex is right. In sparring if there is a better one of you he is told to bring himself down a few levels – My cheif sparring partner has had 30 more bouts than me and a great style that works against mine. He changes it and mixes sparring up for me.
just when i thought manuel had run out of ideas in making himself look like a loser, he posts this rubbish. this video proves nothing you fool
Notice how Pacquiao can’t fight going backwards. He hasn’t learned a thing since Morales schooled him years ago in 2005. LOL! Cotto is going to wipe the deck with Pacquiao.
Roach did say at first that khan got the better of pacquiao but later on pacquiao got the better of khan , after he figuerd out khans speed and is more expericend and khan still makes mistakes
why is khan in the souphpaw stance here
This video proves nothing. How long had Manny been sparring for?,prior to this segment of video being shot. How fresh was Kahn? Was it Manny’s last sparring session of the day or were they just starting out?? I’m not a fan of Kahn’s and I’m leaning to a Cotto upset when it comes to the Pac fight, but this video neither proves Manny is or is not up to beating Cotto, nor does it prove Kahn is any good.
There is some truth to what your saying there alix, as sparring is not the time or place to try and knock each other out deliberately. But if you think it’s impossible to get KO’D with head gear on your very VERY wrong my friend, and I doubt you have any boxing experience either.
You’ve never boxed in your life have you? Pacman wouldnt have gone all out against Khan, they would have got instructed on how to act and what to do, you never work as yourself… jesus this writer is terrible… do you have any boxing knowledge?!
we are going to ream you with comments when cotto loses… will you promise us to stop your blogging if cotto loses?
sparring with 16 ounze gloves perez and head guards, if they were wearing 8 or 10 ounze gloves without headguards, we all no what the outcome would be. as much as i like khan, hes to chinny and the pacman would k.o him within a few rounds. yet another anti pacman article, your nothing but a fat spanish waiter, and you shouldnt be given the opportunity to write this garbage
i think its very unfair to say khan dominated in the sparring, if anything pacquiao landed the better shots. im british and a khan fan but the article is nonsence
Cool video, I don’t think Manny was getting destroyed or anything but he was getting beat
Thanks for the video Perez!