McCloskey’s trainer says Khan shouldn’t look past his fighter
March 22nd, 2011
By Scott Gilfoid: If you haven’t already noticed, WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) seems to be looking past his scheduled next opponent Paul McCloskey (22-0, 13 KO’s) towards a unification fight against Timothy Bradley in July, and even beyond that for a dream fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Here Khan hasn’t even beaten McCloskey, and he’s thinking one and two fights beyond that already. Oh boy, I don’t like this. Khan’s getting cocky already.
I totally agree with Mr. Breen. Khan is about to get knocked off his high horse. We may see Khan get royally spanked again like he was in the Breidis Prescott fight when he came in there looking confident like he could walk on water and was immediately knocked out in the 1st round. The last thing Khan should be doing is looking past a guy like McCloskey considering how bad Khan looked in his last fight against Marcos Maidana. That wasn’t a good performance from Khan. He was getting bounced around the ring for the last three rounds, and the fight probably would have been stopped by a lot of referees in the 10th when Khan did his chicken dance after getting hit by a hard right hand from Maidana.
Khan was staggering around and taking one-way punishment for the entire 10th. A lot of referees would have pulled the plug on Khan or at least penalized him for holding the entire round. Khan lost that fight in my book because I think he would have been knocked out had the referee not kept separating him from Maidana while Khan was getting the stuffing beaten out of him in the last three rounds. Khan escaped that fight more winning it. How he can now be looking past both McCloskey and Bradley towards a fight with Mayweather is beyond me. I think Khan needs to sit down and watch the Maidana fight again with someone like me to give him the straight talk about how horrible he looked. There not good. I see Khan possibly losing to McCloskey and definitely losing to Bradley. And if Khan ever faces Maidana again, Khan will get knocked out no matter where the fight takes place or how many times he’s separated from Maidana while taking punishment.
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Oh and one more thing Harry
I haven’t been hiding, i’ve been at work. Unlike some!
Oh and Harry
wair is actually spelt where!
khans as much of a joke as mckloskey this fight should not be ppv
Come out,come out wair every you are.
I don,t see any irish fans writing saying come HARRY stop takein the p!ss out of us because they no iam tell the truth a race of drunks.
When their do the drug testing before the fight on mccloskey their are not checking to see if hes on roids,just checking he dos nt come in half cut you no what the irish are like give them an inch and their take a mile!!
If you are going alone to the fight keep your eyes open,the irish are know pick pocketts jus marking your card.
What can,t you say another irish p!ss up fool,put in just to make the numbers up.
khan is gona blast him out of there
Some great knowledgeable comments here, none of them from mr gilfoid
Khan looked great against Maidana but simply got caught in the 10th and got staggered badly. As for taking heavy punishment for the last 3 rounds, that’s just nonsense, Khan got spanked in the 10th but the 11th and 12th were pretty even rounds with both fighters landing some big shots. Khan beat Maidana pretty comfortably in a competitive fight in my opinion, simple as that. That’s what happens in top level boxing, your gonna get hit with heavy leather from time to time. Some of Khans boxing was mesmerising. Maidana was bamboozled when Khan landed his combos. As for the fight being being stopped if another ref was in there, that’s just more nonsense. I admit it was fairly close to being stopped but at no point should it have been.
I seriously doubt as well Scott that anyone with half a brain would want you to point out there boxing flaws. You prove time and time again what little boxing knowledge you have.
no fighter should but when you have a lower class opponent to take on,its hard not to.
Khan shouldn’t look ahead past any fighter even though he should beat Mcklosky,khan is not a real champion ! Him and his team our in it just for the cash,greedy b@$tards
Scott gilford you talk utter rubbish
mcloskey likes to dictate the pace of the fight…nice n slow,,he will never cope with the pressure on him from khan..and combinations ..