Roach has a great plan for Khan to beat McCloskey
April 15th, 2011
By Sean McDaniel: Freddie Roach, the trainer of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s), reportedly has a good plan that he will have Khan employ against challenger Paul McCloskey (22-0, 12 KO’s) on Saturday night in their fight at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England.
In an article at the telegraph.co.uk, Roach said “We have a great plan. Yes, McCloskey has an awkward southpaw style, but he makes too many mistakes and we’re really going to take advantage of them. It was great for Amir’s confidence to come through those torrid rounds against Marcos Maidana in his last fight. Amir’s very aggressive, he wants to fight.”
It looks as if Roach is comfortable with letting Khan attack the light-hitting McCloskey early in this fight to try and get him out of there early. This is really only way for Khan to impress anyone, and he’s been flapping his gums lately about wanting to make a big impression on fans to get people talking about his next fight against WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley.
Khan would never attempt to attack a big puncher early with big power shots, but with his selection of the weak punching McCloskey, whom he personally picked out, Khan has a good chance of putting the heat on him early to try and overwhelm him shots. If McCloskey is smart, he’ll cover up and counter Khan with something down the middle. He could possibly score a knockout if Khan gets a little too ahead of himself.
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khans fight plan will be same as when he fought barrera an maidana an everyone else he fights cuz he cnt do ewt else
I got news for you.McLoskey got a plan for Khan and Roach.,hah! hah!
i wonder if katie price will be ringside tonite if she is i hope she gets gangbanged by khan and his boys.
I hope khan smashes this whiteboy
Khan is going to really hurt mccloskey .Mccloskey is too slow keeps his hands down he is not even world class.Khan has fought great opponents but Mccloskey has only fought mostly irish bums think a good bet would be Khan is win by knockout round 1 or 2
If this were true of Freddy,s great planning,then he is better now at his planning than when fighting ,because he knew little more than straight forward battle take two to land one .But this is a better trainer than fighter,and he may just have a plan that Khan may use ,or just use his inate ability,s which are fairly admirable.
IF IT GOES WRONG AMIR KHAN WIL HAVE SOME -ONE TO BLAME .
KHANS SORT R WELL KNOWN FOR IT
KHAN + KHAN= HYPED UP BUMHUNTING WEAK CHIN NO DEFENCE LITTLE RAT
Those are the tactics Khan employed in the Prescott fight and look what happened there. I think they’ll have a round or two of feeling McCloskey out and then go for it. Worldclass fighters do not try to steamroll their way to victory and if Khan does then he’s foolish!
Khan tko 5
Give him a break, can’t have a war every fight
What was his plan? fight a guy who’s not at his level?. Good one, never saw that coming.
Khan would never attempt to attack a big puncher early with big power shots??? What the hell are you talking about Sean? – What you think Khan did against Maidana in the First Round – oh yeah – he knocked him down with an awesome power shot to the kidneys…. you muppet
Mcloskey isn’t a light hitter, he’s knocked out quite a few of his opponents. It’ll be a good fight, but hopefully not an upset as I’m hoping to see Khan/Bradley later this year.
You say khan would never attack a big puncher early on! Well what was that on maidana in the first round when he had him on the floor screaming with big body shots you fool!
This fight ain’t gonna go past the fourth round, a complete mismatch.
Here’s the plan, hit hard – hit often and don’t get hit yourself.