Khan-McCloskey: Paul needs to focus on throwing uppercuts and temple shots
March 18th, 2011
By William Mackay: If unbeaten Irish challenger Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) wants to beat WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) next month in their fight at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England, McCloskey needs to throw a lot of uppercuts down the middle and hard left hands to the temples of Khan.
Strangely enough, Khan was never penalized in the last three rounds when all of these tactics where going on and between these survival moves and the constant breaking of the action at close range when Khan getting pummeled by Maidana, Khan was able to survive and finish the fight on his feet.
McCloskey will be studying the Khan-Maidana fight and will note the things that I and Timothy Bradley noticed with Khan’s inability to stop Maidana’s undercuts. If I’m McCloskey, I’m spending a good portion of every training day working on uppercuts and working on how to free myself from having Khan grabbing me around the neck. I’m also going to work on things like continuing to punch when one of my arms are being held, and how to deal with getting shoved hard in the chest. Beyond these things, McCloskey has to get good at cutting off the ring because he’s going to need to be able to halt Khan’s circular running to force him to fight. If Khan is allowed to run around the ring throwing jabs all night, he’ll win a fairly easy decision. McCloskey needs to cut him off and make him stop quickly to change directions. The constant stopping will weaken Khan’s slender legs and cause him to tire out a lot quicker.
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@ Harry
Sorry for the delay in my reply but I actually have a life away from this sight unlike yourself. Also for your information I actually have my own roofing business and don’t do too bad for myself. If it wasn’t for people like you we’d all be able to come on this site and discuss boxing instead of listening to a bitter old b**tard like you rambling about what a hero you are/were. Nobody cares and a genuine war hero wouldn’t be so full of self proclamaition so soldier on somewhere else with your missing ear, arm and whatever else you’ve lost you c*ck!
@harry no1 wants to listen to ur lame ass war stories u bum u can shove those medals rite up ur arse u pathetic old cu nt.
Don’t punch me on my temple!! My temple is solid!! OMFG!
Well Khan has a “weak temple!”. Remember that wind up? Sometimes i wish i just could shut up!! “Weak temple” was one of the better ones iv heard before!!
Brannagh it down to people like me that you are eating your egg and bacon..you sould be thankfully of a brave war hero..
lol @ Harry, you have medals to prove it? You also have a c@ck on your head to prove your a díckhead
My age is against me or I would be back fighting misson,but theys day my country dose nt need ageing war heros with one leg an arm one foot and one ear its all against me now but iam still fighting on .
Don@london whats them chips like?
pauls needs to hit him with a claw hammer to have any chance of winning this fight,khan to win by 6th or 7 th round tko
A lot of my missons were behind enemy lines fighting hostile forces,and renegade rescue missions..
Don@london I bet you have need fought for your country,you sound like you work in a chip shop..
Well why the moronic statements about the irish, asians, blacks and pretty much everyone else who isn’t english?
Surely a man of your age would have a little more worldly knowledge about him than to be behaving like a 4 year old hillbilly’s kid?
Don@london I fought in the latter stages of world war 2
@ Harry
You are one idiot if ever I came across one.
The whole foot, ear and arm losing incident couldn’t have happened to a nicer bloke!
and then Boxing-Fan gives him a blowie!
The trouble with khan hes a p@ki and all p@kis have a yellow line running throw them.
Khan batters McCloskey for 6 rounds then KO him..
@ Harry
Shouldn’t that comment have said: “that’s from an aging war zero who has lost his ear, leg, arm and foot whilst persecuting innocent people”?
McCloskey is an unbeaten fighter and will be more than a match for Khan. Khan is just an over-hyped Englishman who should have been stopped in his last fight Vs Maidana. Dont be surprised when McCloskey claims the WBA title!
I think khan will beat the irish c@nt and thats from an ageing war hero that has lost his ear leg arm and foot fighting for his country.