Khan-Maidana: Is there any chance Amir won’t get knocked out by Marcos?
November 20th, 2010
By William Mackay: No matter how I look at the December 11th fight between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) and challenger Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KO’s), I can’t see Khan staying on his feet for long and not getting knocked out.
However, even with Roach in the ring with him and Maidana wearing 16 ounce gloves, I see Khan getting knocked flat. Maidana would probably take out Roach with one punch and then tear into Khan with power shots and have him strewn across the ring before long. But seriously, Khan is really up against a terror in this fight. I don’t know what Khan can do win the fight, because he doesn’t appear have the chin for the task.
I don’t think his management has done him any favors by putting him in with exclusively light punchers for the past two years nonstop. It’s like someone struggling with math. Instead of working though the problems to teach the person how to do it, the pupil has been put back at a lower level to take on elementary math. And this in turn boosts the students confidence, but they still have no clue how to tackle the math that they were having problems with from the start. In other words, I think Khan’s growth as a fighter has been stunted the past two years with the soft touches he’s been put in with to keep him from getting knocked out again.
Khan was knocked flat by Breidis Prescott in a 1st round knockout in 2008. Instead of easing his way back into fighting bigger and bigger punchers, to that he could learn how to fight these guys, Khan has been put in with weak punchers like Paulie Malignaggi and Andriy Kotelnik.
This I see has been a total waste of time. To be sure, Khan has won a paper title at light welterweight in beating Kotelnik for the WBA strap, but he hasn’t beaten the best fighters in the division, and he hasn’t proven that he can take a major shot without kissing the canvas.
I hate to say this but Maidana is going to knock the confidence out of Khan on December 11th when he knocks him out. This is going to send Khan back to square one in his career, back to the point where he was after getting knocked out by Prescott. This time hopefully they’ll bring him along the correct way by putting him in with bigger and bigger punchers, so that khan can learn how to fight these guys.
It may be that Khan will never have the chin to beat any of the bigger punchers. But in that case, it’s better to find it out sooner rather than later. Khan could then retire and focus on another career that’s more suited towards his body.
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Lets look at the manny, margarito fight,
Many people said margarito would be too powerful for manny, but look at the outcome, i believe this fight will go the distance, or at least eight rounds, but Khan will win, he is too quick and skillful for maidana , just have a look on youtube and analyze these two fighters for yourself. Onlytime will tell who is correct but this is my prediction
Khan win by TKO round 8
The dec 11 fight of Amir Khan against Marcos Maidana will be a test of sorts for the boxer and the coach Freddie Roach, as to how Khan really develop as a fighter,as he has not really met a good and serious opposition,yet. Malignacci and Kotelnik were not goo opponents for Khan in this division, as both fighters were already going down. Another question, how far has Freddie Roach develop Amir to be a tough champion in the likes of boxing icons Mayweather and Sugar Ray Leonard, as the three are all Olympic medalists. My belief of Amir Khan as a boxer is his Olympic-style of boxing,score and run.
khan may soon look as helpless as Williams did,while taking a nap.while fighting.
How do you manage to even put sentences together, being this stupid? In what fashion does this fight even remotely resemble Foreman vs fraiser? Amir Khan has a completely different style Joe Fraiser.
The guy Amir Khan beat for his ‘paper title’, beat Maidana himself. If Maidana failed to punch holes through a far inferior boxing talent, then how is he to do this against Khan? No one with any knowledge of boxing thinks Maidana is capable of out-boxing Khan at any stage of the fight. Maidana does not possess the skills to even land a clean punch on Khan.
i am a bellend and aint got a clue about boxing i only write about khan cause i get some attention and it makes me feel good
What a stupid and ignorant writer, seems as though he just appeared from a cave, stupid illogical spiteful stuff from someone who wishes he could make it as boxer.
Feel sorry for you William “the writer and not the boxer” Mackay and atleast Khan won’t be chasing your amazing career, a total and utter failure.
I had a laugh reading this, made my day, thank you.
Is there any chance one of your predictions won’t leave you with egg on your face Mackay??
khan is goin to box circles around him and maidana is not goin to be able to land his shots.khan to win by ko
lol maidana has power and nothing else!! if this was a bar fight i would give him a chance, but in a boxing ring, Khan is too fast, too clever. he will frustste maidana and then finish with a late TKO when maidana gets desperate
it doesnt matter how hard maidana punches if he cant land those shots…khan isnt the same fighter that got taken out by prescott in 56 seconds. Khan keeps his hands up now, he waits for his opportunities to land his punches..and when he does land he throws punches in bunches and then covers up again. the only chance maidana has of beating khan is if he goes to work on khans body from round one, tire khan out by the later rounds so that his hands have dropped and then start gunning for his chin… otherwise maidana just isnt going to be able to land and will be a comfortable win for khan.
Change The Record Mckay
i dont like amir but he will win that fight by out boxing that mean moving side by side and jabing i hope marcos ko out amir will run
You lot are crazy, It could go either way, if it goes 2 decision khan all day, but maidana has fists that would knock out ANY boxer in the division…so talking about khans chin is stupid.
khan is the better boxer and sparring day in day out with king pac under freddie roaches eye could only improve his prowess.
people need 2 wake up from their stupid fantasies and appreciate 2 very good boxers
i am a khan fan but may the best man win
Nope, two hits. Maidana hitting Con, and Con hitting the mat.
Khan has a hand speed and good footwork, i don’t see any way can win maidana here, i think maidana has the power but the skills and speed of khan will dominate and knocking maidana for sure.
a) Maidana is not so slow. Look how he knocks Ortiz down in 1st round. b) Maidana is open when he invites his opponent to trade punches with him. Let’s see what Khan will do.
Let’s be honest. Who will try to fight and who will try to run in this fight?
khan isnt knocking anyone out, he doesnt even have any ko’s on his record apart from the one he was given by prescott. just technical knockouts.
chino has 12 pure knockouts in which the opponent never got back up.
how anyone can believe khan with his god awful chin can get through this fight without getting knocked out i dont know
You act like Khan will have his hands tied behind his back. For Maidana to land that one bomb he will have to absord 100′s of Machine gun rounds from Khan. You saw with salita what happens to a guy with 0 defence he can’t see the punches coming. Maidana is wide open. Ortiz put him on the floor 3 TIMES! Khan wins by K.O.
William Mackay
amir has more chance of knocking out
maidana then you getting 1 round in bed
with your box
maidana will be beaten to the punch and
will have no chance in wining the fight
his hands are to slow
maidana can thank god if amir wins by knock out cause he will be feeling like hell if amir wins on points
keep it real maidana khan-t beat amir
Khan will knock out Marcos. There no better fighter then Khan at these days.
so good luck to you guys i have all money saving on Khan
Definetely there’s no chance Khan won’t get KO’d. There would be two two possibilities. 1) Maidana knocks Khan out cold very quickly (1st or 2nd round). 2) Maidana hits Khan’s body, arms, shoulders, repeatedly, so Khan slows down and he gets brutally KO’d after 4, 5, 6 rounds.
People I have inside info Ricky hatton is coming back just 9 weeks ago he weighted 14stone 6lb and my uncle is part of his solicitors backroom team and he said he was told Ricky hatton is back in FULL training and currently as of Friday weighed in at 11stone 9 lb he has cut nearly 3 stone in 9 weeks and if Amir khan gets through maidiana which he prob won’t hatton is gonna kill him in a summer 2011 fight at wembly you heard it here 1st people apparently the 1 stumbling block is if the commission give him his boxing licence back then it will be all systems go
Goodnight AMIR CON goodnight your going asleep 11th December and you know it,now CMON Marcos rip this IDIOTS head off bag it up and give it to Freddie roach to stick under his Christmas tree
Will it appears you struggled with math and were put into the elementary class. Let it go my friend, we were not all made to be rocket scientists. Be comfortable being a born idiot!!!
first of all i think William Mackay has got it wrong, Maidana could never knock freddie Roach out with one punch Khan maybe but not Roach!! Amir will get Knocked out early because no matter how many rounds he spars with the (king Manny) it wont grow muscles on his chin!!
no chance
“John” I really respect Hatton, but as far I know he didn’t want to take the fight with Mr Khan, he said he would rather be in the same corner as him as they are good friends
but Khan didn’t mind the fight, as boxing is business and sometimes you have to fight your friends
Hatton would have walked through Khans pitter patter punches and knocked him out with body shots then head shots.
Who’s better? Hatton or Khan? I think Hatton would kill Khan.
a jab isnt going to save him in this fight. its all very well show casing your jab against paulie 5 ko’s malignaggi but this wont work, this is a REAL fight.
one mistake from khan in his defense, one chance for chino to hit him on the chin and its over.
you cant go through your whole career avoiding certain fighters eventually you’ll see a fight is enforced and you have to face your demons and you cant get through a whole fight at top level without getting hit.
there’s no way khan can survive without getting ko’d unless he ko’s chino in the first round which is highly unlikely
i cant see marcos taking the volume nor the speed of amir. people really dont know boxing. who thinks mayweather has a good chin??? I do! did you see the shot that nearly crumbled him against mosley (round 2)??! anyone can get hit, anyone can go down. Every good fighter has had trouble at the start of their careers and have had to come back from knockdowns/cuts/loses etc. Watch out for amir to really punish marcos. TKO!
El Chino by 2nd round KO.
khan will smash him to pieces
Khan will use his speed to frustrate Maidana and negate his power. Khan will be in and out using his jab to keep Maidana off balance stopping him from throwing the power shots. I agree if Khan does get caught he probably will go down but I think he has come on a long way since Prescott fight especially since Roach took him on so I dont see that happening. I am going to go for Khan to win on late stoppage as Ortiz has shown Maidana can be hurt.
I like Maidana but I think Khan will out speed and out box by staying on his bycicle and get a ud.
Knan will out jab maidana easy look for maidana to chase him around and get beaten to the punch
khan by tko 8th or descision
Khan has learned plenty since Prescott, so I give Khan a 50/50 chance. Maidana took out my boy Ortiz, so Maidana is definitely a player at 140, although I think Ortiz would win the rematch and I have high hopes for Ortiz. I think Ortiz has the power and skills to be the best at 140. 2011 looks promising for fight fans.