McCloskey’s promoter doesn’t see a Khan rematch happening
April 26th, 2011
By Sean McDaniel: Eddie Hearn, the promoter for failed title challenger Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s), is upset with the decision that was made to have the Khan-McCloskey fight halted in the 6th round after the 31-year-old McCloskey suffered a minor cut over his left eye. Hearn isn’t letting the defeat go without complaints, saying this in a recent interview at Sky Sports Ringside:
McCloskey did a better job against Khan than more proven fighters like Andriy Kotelnik and Paulie Malignaggi. McCloskey was able to make Khan miss frequently with his punches. At the time of the stoppage, Khan looked gassed out like he had shot his wad. Khan says that McCloskey was ready to go in the next two rounds. However, McCloskey says he was waiting Khan out until he was tired and was going to go after him in the second half of the fight to knock him out.
The chances of a rematch between McCloskey are pretty much nonexistent. Khan is looking to take on better fighters like Timothy Bradley or Zab Judah, two of the fighters that hold light welterweight titles. Without a title, McCloskey isn’t in the picture for Khan unless McCLoskey can get a title shot against Judah and capture his IBF belt. That’s not going to be easy to land a fight with Judah, because he’s looking for big fights himself and won’t likely wanting to take on the little known McCloskey like Khan did.
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Look, what would have happened is that Khan would have taken a round off and then resumed going full pelt. Did Khan miss a lot compared to his recent matches? Yes because he over exereted himself and didn’t discipline himself (though with McCloskey’s lack of KO’s, Khan didn’t have to worry about rushing in).
But don’t make it sound like Khan was losing or barely winning. He was ahead and Ko or no KO he would have won, with McCloskey winning two rounds at the most.
McCloskey does deserve a rematch but only because the conclusion was horrible, not because he was giving Khan a close match.
im not sure if khan would have gassed or not, but looking at McCloskeys ko ratio im not convinced he could of ko’d khan…
McCloskey should wake up- he had his shot and for whatever it may seem- HE LOST IT…. END OF
No one wants to see McCloskey vs Khan again. The guy and his team the Hearn father and son must be on cukooooo land. you have to throw punches to win fights not see how many you can duck and dodge
he was lucky to get one shot at it !
id be sending the ref back to amateur boxings he had no idea the cut was a scratch iv seen refs let worse cuts go on in amateur boxing he forgot this was a world title fight thats millions of people paid to watch yes khan was ahead on points but it was only half through the 12 round i think mcloskey was starting to were him out boxings about going 12rounds any thing can happen but we will never know because us views will never know all because of a amateur ref. thats my opinion anyway us payviews want a rematch