Peterson needs to study the Prescott and Maidana blueprint in how to beat Khan
October 17th, 2011
By William Mackay: If Lamont Peterson (29-1-1, 15 KO’s) wants to increase his chances of beating IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-1, 18 KO’s) on December 10th, he needs to study hard to blueprints that Breidis Prescott and Marcos Maidana used in their fights with Khan in the past.
Peterson, 27, has to look at those two fights and observe what Prescott and Maidana were able to do to Khan by pressuring him and loading up on everything. If you compare how Prescott and Maidana fought Khan to how defensive fighters like Zab Judah and Paul McCloskey fought him, it’s like night and day.
Khan fights well if he’s got a timid opponent fighting on their back foot, letting him initiate everything. But Khan is much less effective if you take the fight to him constant by going straight at him at full speed and throw with everything you’ve got.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t know him out, Khan feels the power and starts racing around the ring to not get hit. Khan’s legs were like rubber against Maidana from the running by the 10th. Khan had literally been running for nine rounds when Maidana clipped him with a huge right hand that had Khan staggering around like a drunk coming out of a bar.
From then on, Khan’s legs were like rubber and he was like a tall stork just taking shots and not able to widen his stance because of his weak legs. Peterson has to put some major power in his shots and keep Khan running so he’ll wear himself out.
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did maidana beat khan then? sure, he got to him but he didnt lay down a blueprint did he because Khan won the fight… people cling to that 10th round because they cant admit how good khan is.
Khan will be the 1st to KO Peterson…
khan was ko,d because his dumb trainer sent him to go
head to head with a pig puncher.come on khans been
flored by fighters who dont even hit that hard,that tells
you he was not ready to go head to head with big punchers.
@stevie1#bum
Dont need a chin I can knock U tfo with my linguistic genious resorting to violence would mean I had already lost the argument.
The picture of this article just demonstrates what the author thinks of Khan.
@stevie1#bum
WOW really a stupid stupid lizard did u think of that one yourself u fvkin simpleton. N e way
Khan took Maidana’s best shots but never went down how do u explain that my point is any boxer can get knocked out cold in any given fight No matter how good or bad ur chin is u get caught clean ur goin down.
Nothing to learn from the Prescott fight. Young inexperienced Khan got caught cold and blasted out before the fight got goin. And like you say Khan beat Maidana, so unless you mean learn from Maidana’s mistakes then that fight ain’t much good to Peterson either is it.
Khan is aways going to have haters, may be different if he was called smith, just like Ali had to deal with when he went from slave name to Ali, most americans would have preferred to continue to call him “Boy” and be treated the same way Sonny was! Fact is Khan is world champ and would unify if that coward Bradley would fight him! And who cares if there is a small section of bitter white folk wishing to see a repeat of the Prescott knockout to happen again! they run the streets kissing the union jack while doing nazi salutes! and not understand whats wrong with that! BUT HEY THE BRITS ARENT TO BRIGHT THEY SENT A NAZI SYMPATHISER TO REPRESENT THEM IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT!
The blueprint of hit him really hard? Inspired.
for me hatton would have beaten Khan and it would be easy work. He would have received a body punch by round 6 to end the contest in my opinion. hatton was way to busy for khan and would have soon took him out
@stevie1#bum
Ur a fool did Hatton have a pus sy chin when he got ktfo against PAC man fvkin retard!!!!!
Khan took punches of the hardest hitter in the division yet still stood on his feet despite being staggered; the excuse of the referee is very poor for Maidana not winning…. Surely the backlash should be on Maidana for not taking out a “glass jaw” boxer! Everyone seems to forget Khan had Maidana down in the opening rounds yet he was saved by the bell but people seem to forget about that!
Everyone said he will be brutally loose against Maidana yet out boxed him bar 2 rounds where he showed “heart” and hung in…. Everyone said he’d loose against Judah but he was a class apart, he made Judah look poor not Judah being a poor fighter over night. I suppose Tyson has a weak chin too for being knocked put too!
I’m sorry but did Maidana won?? How do you lose and create a blueprint in how to beat Khan?! lol…
Prescott didn’t lay out a blueprint, he beat an inexperienced Khan, who was badly trained. The only thing Prescott really did is catch khan when he dropped his right, a basic mistake, that Roach has ironed out of him.. So if Petersons trying to take a leaf out of Prescott’s book, it wont do him much good. He needs to be a lot smarter.
As for Maidana, even with Maidana’s power, under heavy pressurem and after taking some punches that would put a lot of boxers down, Khan survived. Lamont Peterson doesn’t come close to maidana’s power, and Khan is faster than him…