Can Khan take a good power shot without being hurt or knocked out?
September 14th, 2010
By William Mackay: I’ve seen a number of Amir Khan’s fights and pretty much in every case where he was hit with a good shot, he was either staggered, knocked down or knocked out. The thing of it is Khan has only been in with one big puncher in his career and that was Breidis Prescott, who flattened him in one round.
But in December, Khan will be facing WBA light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana and he’s going to land something big sooner or later on Khan’s chin and I don’t think Khan is going to be able to stay upright once he gets hit. Khan was knocked down by the light hitting Willie Limond, knocked down twice by Prescott, staggered by an old and small Marco Antonio Barrera.
He’s not getting hit hard anymore because his opponents have been light punchers recently. Well, unless Khan decides not to take the fight with Maidana, which is a real possibility given how much complaining Khan has been doing lately about Maidana, I can see Khan getting hit with a lot of hard shots from Maidana.
You can’t fight Maidana without getting hit with hard shots, because that’s all he throws is hard shots. He loads up on everything he throws and he’s naturally a really strong dude. It’s going to be like shooting gallery. Maidana is going to miss a certain percentage of his shots because Khan is going to present himself as a constantly moving target to keep from getting knocked cold, but sooner or later, Maidana is going to hit Khan.
And each time that Maidana hits Khan, it’s going to be harder than anything that Khan has been hit with before. I’ve studied Prescott and Maidana’s fights, and I’m certain that Maidana is the much bigger puncher of the two. With Prescott, he would only clobber you with something really big every once in a while.
He had to hit you just right for you to be in trouble. But with Maidana, he’s capable of producing a knockout with every punch he throws, even the ones that only barely connect. I just don’t have any faith that Khan’s chin is going to be able to take Maidana’s shots without Khan going down and staying down.
If Victor Ortiz couldn’t stand up to Maidana, then I don’t see how Khan can. I think Khan might be able to take a few of Maidana’s punches, but he has 12 full rounds in which Khan will have to take punches. Even if you’re being conservative and thinking that Maidana will only land 10 huge punches per round, that’s still 9 more than I think Khan will be able to take without being knocked out.
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maidana would have trouble with khan the boxer.
Is khan chin going to snap like a rotter lump of wood ?
Can Khan take a good power shot without being hurt or knocked out??????
History would suggest that he can’t! He received a huge power shot from Prescott and was finished, but since then nobody has been able to land on him, almost Mayweather like, ie. too fast!!…and getting smarter every fight,getting wiser with Freddie Roach in the corner and most importantly getting stronger and bigger!! The real question is ” Can Maidana land a power shot”????? and with Kahn probably being reluctant, wisely, not to trade with him like Ortiz did and I think the answer is NO!!! Kahn on points/late TKO!!
i am a girl you idiot
@ will he won’t he the word hater is used when people make senseless coments fair play if you don’t like the guy I can see why people wouldn’t take a shine to him but at least make coments with boxing reason not just khan will get ktfo as soon as he gets hit. Your right he will need to keep him at arms length but with the way his fighting style has changed I don’t reckon he will be as susceptable to getting sparked as he once was if maidana tags him with a good shot
@racistcard you should stick to drinking beers while your white girl shags a big black man
‘Khan can take a big shot but he cant continue on one. In the Prescott fight he took a big shot he got up but was not able to continue.’
that means he cant take one. you are deluded, wake up
Khan will get stoped if he takes the fight.
Khan can take a big shot but he cant continue on one. In the Prescott fight he took a big shot he got up but was not able to continue.
i like khans fighting style but end of the day he needs to face people like maidana to progress but end of the day my son will seems to have an obession about writing bout khan please son write bout other boxers GOD DNT LIKE UGLY SON!!!!!!!!!
Amir Kahn, fights like a warrior, and carries himself like a champion and first class gentleman outside the ring. He speaks with respect about his opponents and has all the attributes of real bonafide champion.
Why is the word hater used for people who don’t like Khan,man,u don’t like man,c etc thats sport,and for people using different name to post under,IE KHAN?or should we say a King Khan.On paper Khan should win this one!! but he will have to keep Mainana at arms length and Khan will be on his toes for much of the fight.But its very quite so far from Khan camp!!! and is by no means a done deal.
@Anonymous
ok but your a pus.y. A sly little man that has a 2 inch di.That wishes you had a bit of boxing talent. But you will only be good in a call centre picking your nose.
Khan can take a good punch. Anyone who has followed his career will know so. He was developing when he got KO’d. He would trade but is more cagey now. When he fought Paulie he could not get a good solid punch on him as Paulie was very fast but got lots of glancing blows. It will be the same for Maidana he will not get a full on shot. Maidana will wear himself out with his misses and will end up KO’d by Khan.
maidana’s just like the argentine army……..one dimensional and garbage…..britain wins the war against the argentines again,,with ease!!!
‘Khan must understand that he will have to take some heavly blows in the fight and better be prepared.’
be prepared? how do you prepare for something you cant do? he cant take an average punch let alone a powerful one. best run all night long and pray he doesnt have to exchange at any point with the hard hitting maidana
The fighter with the most talent will get throught this fight. We all know khan has more talent then maidana, devon and brad. But taking a good punch is questionable. This fight will define Khans whole career. And im confident all the it nerd hindus will be crying with hate. And some white haters will no longer hate.
Khan will have his face protected, so i cant see him going down from a knockout punch. But maidana has big punches and will look for the stomach and ribs. As long as khan keeps to a distant a boxes him, Khan will damage maidana. Khan must understand that he will have to take some heavly blows in the fight and better be prepared.
just come out and tell it how it is. We all know why realy you hate khan.
I cant stand the hindu haters on these forums, with 2 or 3 different names.
Khan will beat Maidana and in style.
speed kills i see khan hitting maidana at will and eventually after punishin him for 6 rounds roach will send him in for the kill. however i see maidana connecting with glancing blows and troubling khan and if he connects plum it could be lights out but i cant see khan geting hit plum by this guy. anyway very intresting fight will be fun either way
chiken dancer is confused
Khan has lots of skill but his ability to take a punch is not good and eventually a big shot will get through.What do you think will happen?
deathrow bet your bedroom is covered in amir con stuff gaaaaaay
no1 said khan better then pac or mayweather. im tellin ya he will destroy maidana then bradley and alexander and he will be undisputed champ within a year. thats coming from a pure boxing point of view as i cant see any of them beating him
Yeah of course he’s going to take the same kind of roids that Pacgirl takes from Roach the joke.
chiken dancer likes geting bummed and evbery1 knows you want khan to bum ya
No he cant take a shot at all. And he doesnt have the skill of say….a wladimir Klitschko who has been able to protect his glass jaw for years on end against all comers.
Khan has no power either. Its only a matter of time and a step up in class till Kon gets demolished
dont talk just dont say anything khanfans wait to c if he signs if he was a man and not scared he would have signed already but hes very hesitant u wollys cant tell me khan wont get hit for 12 rounds cons beaten no one at all and u all makeout like cons better than mayweather and pacman put together losers
If Khan had a chin, he would be a serious threat.
@chicendancer, I hope you have wise words like above if Khan sparks Maidana? Or are you man enough to admit when your wrong about someone? Guess we’ll only find out once the fight is said & done.
Ps are you William Mckay in disquise?
haha khan is a verry good fighter but he aint the next pac man, this is just my opinion but there is a fighter out there, his name is poonswat, he is a tank, featherwaight, he is with golden boy, they are hiding him away, hes verry fast and verry verry powerfull, from thiland, hes wba world champ, roach needs to spend some time with him
Amir can take a punch as anybody can and live to tell the story. It doesn’t mean he won’t go to sleep or fall into the mat…lol…
no he wont, only simple minded fans that dont know much about boxing thinks maidana will ko khan, i hope maidana beats the f##k out of him but i see an easy fight for khan because of the speed power and unbeleivable ring craft, and also freddy roach, you will be surprised when you see khan taking his punches
amir khan do it. amir is the next pacman.
What makes anyone think Maidana will last with Khans power, speed, movement.
Only thing Khan lacks is chin.
Maidana on the other hand can’t match Khan in any department his power maybe but I do question that.
Well its real easy to know exactly what Maidana will do from the first bell and that will get him KO’d in the first I will put 1000 on this fight for Khan to win in first.
Im an Hater of Khan but I also am not biased.
khan will knock maidana out!!!!!! round 10 or 11.
maidana wont be able to land enough punches on khan to finish him, prescott punch would have finished any fighter, its simple if khan fights he will be respected he will be credited for it but if he doesnt hes only a cowerd and should go to a club with floyd and do the chickin dance
This site is so repetitive. Numerous articles now have said khan won’t be able to last with maidana’s punnching power
if khan knocks maidana down hel get straight up like other times when maidana knocks khan down he wont get up khans camp is quiet as a mouse has been since wba said theyl sought money out and go to purse bids bet u diddnt think that was gona happen now what khan either way its over the curtains coming down on your comedy act
If u cant handle the power, u cant handle the power, simple.
Maybe they just understand boxing and aren’t just khan haters
Whaaaa seems all Kahns girlfriends have logged on…. Maidana easy KO 2nd round!
apart from kotelnik no one has been able to take maidanas power so where does that leave a chinny khan. ko’d like the rest of them. khan will run, hide, make excuses, go into the fight nervous at the thought of the prescott nightmare coming back to haunt him.
he knows he has a poor chin and if he is hit it’ll al be over.
i just cant help thinking about the gomez fight when a limited fighter who was over the hill put so much pressure on khan he was knocked down.
remember what gomez aid, kahn didnt hurt him.
although he’s fast and its possible he will land a combo of shots on maidanas chin that will be fired so quickly maidana might lose his balance… i dont think he can hurt maidana.
but there’s no way khan can withstand maidainas power.
it’s a shame the “author” doesn’t once consider what could happen if Khan actually connects with Maidana.
It seems to Willy, that the only punches that would be thrown and landed are Maindana’s
Crazy
The reason khan was getting put down almost every fight an eventualy got banged was because he just charged in backing himself to ko the guy in front of him leaving his chin wide open. I thought he was finished I too said the guy had no chin after Prescott but that loss taught him a lesson roach has got to grips with him and gradually he has turned into a very good fighter alot more calculative with when he attacks and when he throws that rangy jab and gets out of there. He hasn’t fought a banger since presscott but it wasn’t just presscott dropping khan it was a bunch of other guys too. Since that he hasn’t looked like getting caught. I will say also kotelnik give alexander all he could handle and probably won, he beat maidana but couldn’t get near khan.
Mario – Khan’s only lost once after being knocked down – on every other occasion he’s got back up and won the fight. Sort of ruins your theory about him having a suspect chin if that’s what you say proves Maidana and Ali haven’t. You’re basing you’re opinion on one fight where he got caught cold in the first minute of the fight. Hardly indicative of his performance in general.
I don’t know why all the arguing, no matter what anyone says once the bell rings anything can happen(FACT) u people speak with such certainty on both sides as if u had a crystal ball. Personally once I saw maidana knocked down against ortiz I knew he would not be a super star, a good champion yes, a super star ??? No! Same goes for khan he will be a better champ than maidana but great ??? No! In the words of a man that I have no respect for personall yet respect his statement ” I’m a great champion beacuse I have a great chin” – Floyd mayweather, khan will beat maidana 8 rounds too 4 unnanimous decision. If ortiz couldn’t put maidana away after 3 knock downs than the light hitting khan definetly can’t. He will win of his jab 1-2 and ring generalship maybe a cutt on maidana, but look for maidana too stun khan atleast 2 or 3 times in the fight. Khan will eventually loose too some one like Paul Williams , Sergio Martinez or pacquiao / mayweather he’s not super star material either.
hahahah how ignorant are people in this page is hella funny!!!
ALI GOT KNOCKED DOWN MANYYY TIMES IN HIS CAREER AND WAS CONSIDER TO HAVE A GREAT CHIN!!! HAVING A BAD CHIN DON’T MEAN GETTING KNOCKED DOWN
1 ORTIZ IS A KNOCK OUT PUNCHER!!!
2 MAIDANA RAN INTO ALL THOSE PUNCHES!!!
3 MAIDANA/ALI WOULD GET RIGHT UP AFTER GETTING KNOCKED DOWN LIKE ITS NOTHING AND CONTINUE TO FIGHT GOOD
AMIR KHAN GOT DROPPED MANY TIMES EXTREMELY WOBBLY AND NOT EVEN KNOWING WHERE THE f8CK HE WAS AT
WATCH MORE BOXING YOU IGNORANT MOTHER FU(#e$S
IF YOU ARE GOING TO COMMENT KNOW WHAT YOUR SAYING
Maidana seems to be too emotionally involved… crying to the WBA like a little girlie…. by the time the hype machine starts, he’s going to be incensed (remember De la hoya screwing up his face against Mayweather at the press conferences)… then Maidana will do a ricky hatton at the pre-fight weigh-in…. nerves will get to him…. and then finally on fight night…. its game over… he’ll be frustrated with Amir’s speed, and by the 5-6 rounds he’ll be taking a steady flurry of punches to the head… i doubt he’ll connect with anything clean on Amir… and by the 9-10th round – Maidana is ready to fall…. Mark my words.
best form of defence is offence, so if khan can hurt maidana he will take him out.
maybe seeing as khan has moved up and doesnt need to boil down to make lightweight limits, his punch resistance is better with light welterweight being more his ‘natural’ weight.
prescott is very heavy handed, and he caught khan very early in the fight, really when he wasnt expecting it.
not saying he aint got a weak chin, but maybe now he’s at a more natural weight. his resistance is better.
his conditioning sure is, his defence has improved by a mile.
personally i dont think maidana will be able to live with khans speed,or the power he has.
khan by tko in the first 6rnds. maidana will fight like martinez did against burns.
he will only be looking for the one big bang, khan will box his head off and the referee will step in, cos maidana will have no answer.
Khan is a good boxer but can,t take a big punch if he can avoid the big bombs hes wins but in a 12 round fight 1 big bomb will land and its lights out and he know this..
King khan special kebab one hundred percent chicken.
no, prescott already ‘tito’d him.
prescott = tito
khan = vargas
you’re never the same after a beating like that, no matter what your fanboys tell you.
this is allready proven so why ask……….
dont you mean 9 more punches than khan can take, otherwise khan would go down without a punch. and if that was the case even mackay could beat him.
so the question is would will mackay step into the ring with khan for a charity exhibition match? maybe sports relief?
McCain’s curly fries strike again!!
what makes you think with khan’s slick movement, maidana wont get ko’d before he even finds his range. agreed khan has a weak chin but so does maidana, i think they both have a lot of power, but as it should be khan will win because he has the better skills.
in footballing terms khan is brazil and maidana is italy. everyone wants to see brazil win cause they have class and skill.
one time bredren, you dont see meeeee!!!
khan is a boxer.
You are a hater.
somethings were just meant to be!!