Roach talks Alexander, Khan, and Katsidis – News
June 7th, 2010
By William Mackay: Trainer Freddie Roach says that WBO lightweight interim champion Michael Katsidis (27-2, 22 KO’s) wanted too much money to fight World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s), according to the Telegraph.co.uk. Roach said “He [Khan] fought a great fight in New York against Paulie Malignaggi. He fought the right fight. If he does take the fight [against soon to be 39-year-old Joel Casamayor] on July 31st, he needs to get back over here and get in the gym this week. I hear they were talking to Katsidis but he wanted too much money. My view is Amir is ready for anyone.”
This is why it’s not a good thing to get excited about these kinds of wins for Khan, because he still hasn’t proven that he’s able to beat a puncher because he hasn’t been in with one since he was flattened in the 1st round two years ago by Breidis Prescott. If Golden Boy Promotions, Khan’s promotional company, match him against 39-year-old Casamayor next instead of the hard hitting Katsidis, then this trend of matching Khan against less than huge punchers will continue.
Casamayor can punch a little but he’s not a big puncher like Katsidis, is 39, hasn’t been all that active and was stopped in the 11th round in his last meaningful fight in 2008 by Juan Manuel Marquez. Roach says that Katsidis wanted too much money. That sounds plausible but it also could be a convenient excuse for not putting Khan in with Katsidis, who with his big power and good hand speed, would be a constant threat of taking Khan out if Katsidis landed anything at all.
Never the less, sooner or later Khan is going to have to be put in with good fighters like Devon Alexander, Timothy Bradley, Marcos Maidana and Victor Ortiz. And when that time comes, I think Khan is going to struggle badly because it could be too huge of a step up from facing 39-year-old fighters, weak punchers and fighters that have no business being ranked at number #1.
Speaking about Alexander, Roach says “Who is Devon Alexander anyway? We’ve seen him on TV. I’ve seen him once and I didn’t see anything special.” Roach must be kidding himself, because Alexander has looked special and in my view he looks a lot better than Khan, and is facing better opposition than him at the same age. I’d like to see Khan face him but I’m not holding breath on that happening for many years, if ever. Talking about Maidana, the WBA light welterweight interim fighter, and the one that almost everyone has been wanting Khan to fight for ages, Roach says “Marcos Maidana we can take on any day of the week.” I kind of doubt it. I don’t believe that Khan can beat Maidana and I don’t believe they will fight him. Maidana, a huge puncher and a high pressure fighter, is even more dangerous than Prescott, and we already saw what happened to Khan in that fight against Prescott.
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Alexander > Khan.
And Freddie knows it.
Find it funny that Roach is dismissing Alexander. Clearly the FANS want to see Alexander vs Khan, so why not do it Freddie? Or is Freddie now gonna baby Khan like he did with Pacquiao instead?
khan to tko devon & bradley at ther same tome
khans got no guts at all taking on this lame fight. no heart, no guts, never takes a risk, will never be a boxing great
@ straightup
What do you think
BULLSH** IVE NEVER BEEN A HATTON FAN AND I LIKE DAVID HAYE SO GO AND CRY ABOUT IT SOMEWHERE ELSE. BABY SCREAMING RACIST WHENEVER SOMEONE CRITICIZES YOUR PAPER CHAMPION AMIR CON
william mackay, in his opinion, knows more about boxing than freddie roach. you couldnt make it up
William Mackay needs a reality check talks out of his mouth on and on! what a fool should retire writing n start focusing on the real thing and thats boxing at its core. HOPE YOUR READING THIS MY FRIEND WILLIAM (I.E DOESNT KNOW BOXING AT ALL)
khan v murray on 31st july!
devon alexander is a beast khan is a bum lets get to my point alexander+khan=beatdown
@ koyes uddin read my last comment goes to you aswell Alexander would demolish khan
@white and mckaey ur saying alexander next fight is against kotelnik and using that to defend khan but you forget alexanders last two fights were agianst tough guys at 140 who have never been stopped and guess what he stopped them and seeing as tho he is the most avoided fighter at 140 I think this is a good keep busy fight for him and he’ll show khan how to finish a durable opponent like kotelnik. Also remember he is 23 lyk mr khan and is 20-0 and won a world title in his 19th fight.
Good post
although u seem a bit biased to any other side against khan
nd u dnt believe that fights will happen? Like u no? Ha
let’s just wait nd c, he’ll hav to fite em
aunt no dukin away…..
why is goldenboy sabotaging maidanas career? to protect khan? they knew in early may that maidana was in a fight with his manager which explains why khan and roach got so brave all of a sudden.
goldenboy said they would show maidana the contracts and then turned around and said no.
they must want maidana out of the way in a court fight so khan can avoid him altogether
all this nonsense about khan, he gets attacked on this site first when he was going to fight katsidis because hes a lightweight, now the fight has fallen through hes being attacked for not fighting him?. He should fight presscott, as simple as that. The unfortunate thing is, it doesn’t matter if he unifies the LWW division he will still be slagged of by a minority of hard core fans. These hard core fans just happen to hate naz, haye, lewis and yet they love hatton, calzaghe. When mitchell lost no one slagged him off or said he was exposed,just a load of excuses. What about john murray, why is he so hyped up, that would never happen if he was not white (but you cant say that because then your accused of using the race card). he’s not ranked in the top 5 of any one of the 4 governing bodies. so then how did he get a record of 29-0? he fights low level fighters. you can argue he has the brit/euro titles but that just means he’s still a domestic fighter, unlike khan who is world class hence 3/4 of his last fights were against world/former world champions.
hey heres khans new excuse for ducking maidana.
hes going to pretend that he didnt know about maidanas troubles with his manager and that he was really trying to make a fight with him.
of course he will ignore the fact that his promoter goldenboy knew all about it and actually refused to show maidana what contracts his manager had made with them.
Wil, I’m not a ‘knowledgeable boxing fan’; but thanks for pointing out that Malinaggi is absolute rubbish. I’m indebted to you for your insights.
hahaa katsidis wanted too much? nice excuse.I can only imagine what they wouldve offered him if they actually made an offer which they didnt.
Im sure they wouldve lowballed him just to make him say no.katsidis would be a huge draw in england after he ko’d mitchell but apparently hes way too dangerous for the glass man
@sharp: when you talk of rodney’s ‘comicle interlect’, am I to assume you really mean ‘comical’ and ‘intellect’ and are playing for laughs, or are you really that unintelligent yourself..?
name says it all
yes sharp i agree with you. its really getting on my nerves all this ‘give the kid a break’ ‘he’s only 22.’ please f*ck off. they’ve even changed his age to emphasize the point. he is infact 23 years old and been pro long enough to have won a world title so now defend it against the best not the worst out there or get called a cherry picking paper champion. that’s all there is to it. the casamayor fight is a joke beyond jokes.
Yea and Alexanders next fight is Kotelnik and Khan dismantled him. You are as full of s–t as a christmas turkey is full of stuffing.
@rodney
the level of your interlect is comicle. nice to see education hasnt gone to waste on you. lol
i just want to point out marcos maidana would beat any of the light welterweight champions (apart from manny pacquiao if he keeps his belt)
bradley doesnt look that special and alexander has only beat urango who is a joke
other then that they beat Junior “the Quitter” Witter … wow awesome
braderz wants to go to welterweight … he wouldnt beat any rated fighters at that weight can any1 actually see him beating Pacman , mayweather , mosley , berto , cotto , hatton , marquez , clottey plus anyone im missing … coz i seriously carnt !! (lol carnt see khan beating them either btw)
Alexander would destroy Khan point plain and simple………
@sharp, mate u will be waiting for the rest of ur sad pathetic life haha…infact ur bubble has been burst ur a racist child molester i hope the police catch u and rape u
u talk about khan not fighting plausible opponenets how can he? Maidana’s gt a back injury, Alexander’s fighting a guy who easily got beat by khan in a 12 round shut out, and timothy’s fighting another guy. if he fought katsdis every1 would have said he fought some1 comin up in weight its a no win situation. plus casamayor knocked out katsidis
u talk about khan not fighting plausible opponenets how can he? Maidana’s gt a back injury, Alexander,s fighting a guy who easily got beat by khan in a 12 round shut out, and timothy’s fighting another guy. ig he fought katsdisi every1 would have set he fought some1 comin up in weight its a no win situation
Its obvious from your theme your anti khan the kid is only 22 and still needs more development, he can’t avoid the big punchers forever so have patience and stop going on about prescott some of the greatest fighters in history have lost or been knocked out. Khan is still about 3 years away from is peak so he has the time.
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Correction: Khan is 23, the same age as Devon Alexander. So should boxing fans have to wait three years for Khan to hit his peak before he starts fighting younger fighters or ones that can punch?
Mackay
bulls eye, casamayor is a dangerous southpaw with good power(not a little power-ask katsidis). besides these days the legends r still fighting well like b-hop, vitali, and glen johnson(ask chad dawson) lol
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Casamayor will be 39 by the time he fights Khan on July 31st. Doesn’t that seem kind of old to you? Casamayor was stopped two years ago by Juan Manuel Marquez in 2008. Casamayor was 37 at the time. He’s now turning 39 and has had one fight since the loss to Marquez, beating a B level fighter. Casamayor spent the majority of his career at super featherweight and recently moved up to junior welterweight. That probably isn’t a good thing for an aged fighter like the 5’7″ Casamayor facing a bigger, 5’10″, younger fighter like Khan.
Mackay
alexander is the guy fighting kotelnik, who wants to see that!! i wanna see casamayor vs khan, casamayor KOED katsidis anyway katsidis isnt anything special!