Peterson’s trainer: The Khan-Peterson fight is going to get real ugly in the later rounds
October 5th, 2011
By William Mackay: Barry Hunter, the trainer for number #1 ranked IBF light welterweight contender Lamont Peterson (29-1-1, 15 KO’s), believes that Peterson has the skills to compensate for the speed of IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-1, 18 KO’s) in their fight on December 10th at the Convention Center, Washington, District of Columbia.
“In Lamont’s case, he’s so multidimensional when it comes to fighting, Hunter said to hattonboxing.com. “He can box; he can bang; he’s not slow. He can be just as fast at times. So, I think timing will be everything. At times, it will be tactical, but down the stretch it will get real ugly and gritty.”
Hunter is right about Khan. He seems to only throw fast punches and that’s about all he does. He mixes in some holding around the neck and shoving every once in awhile, but in the way of punches, it’s always fast shots. Marcos Maidana timed Khan in their fight last December, and staggered him badly with a right hand. Maidana continued to batter Khan after that, but was unable to take him out. Breidis Prescott, in his win over Khan, staggered Khan with a jab and then stretched him with a left hook to the head when Khan was in the process of throwing a hook of his own. Once Peterson times Khan’s punches, it’ll be all she wrote. He’ll be able to hit Khan no matter how fast Khan throws his punches, and we’ll likely see the fight turn from that point to Peterson’s favor.
Khan really doesn’t seem to know how to vary the punching speed on his shots for some reason. He’s totally in love with his speed and has become very predictable with how he thows his shots. Peterson is going to time him after a couple of rounds, and we could see Khan take a real beating in this fight. Maidana had Khan’s face resembling a house cat by the time the fight was over. I suspect Peterson will do the same unless Khan goes down early from one of Peterson’s well timed shots.
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@duranstheman
Redeem himself vs Maidana? Khan won that one?? Prescott, you mean Prescott who lost to McCloskey? Shouldn’t Khan just fight McCloskey?
Not a Khan fan, but this is an illogical argument that is getting repeated ad nauseam. Prescott needs to redeem his career which over the last six fights is 3-3.
The Maidana would have won if the ref/fight was different is the famous ‘coulda shoulda’ argument. Maidana didn’t do enough to win and Maidana only has himself to blame for not doing enough for the first six rounds and not finishing it when he had the chance. It’s like watching a racehorse get pipped by a neck and saying it would have won if it had a dump before it started.
Posted October 5, 2011
do you know anything about boxing ? the prescott that beat khan done it in 52 seconds how more humiliated does khan need to be .. hes in boxing history for one of the quickest knockouts . dont come up wiv mccloskey rubbish . it was prescott not mccloskey … his legacy stands .. ran fron prescott …
this image is from the fight against Maidana?! if it’s , I understand why Khan doesn’t want a rematch with him ( Maidana) … look at his face/body
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Hahaha. Imagine that, deciding only to throw fast punches. Come on Amir, raise your game and throw some slow punches as well, the ones that people can see coming and have time to block or avoid altogether.
Jesus wept you’re dense William.
Easy millions Khan will ever make
are ALL english fighter soft as khan? this terrorist is a overrated bum,whos trying to get a payday with mayweather. but hes scared to fight prescott the same guy who touched that soft azz chin.if the ref would had did his job and stop the fight you would be just waking up now!
peterson wont make it past the 5th round.
@cab, correct. All I’m saying is that he talks a lot for what he has accomplished thus far.. I know it’s business. He and Dirrell i’d like to hear a little less about.
What’s with Sillakh vs Henry any news, why ? etc
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I hope Peterson wins this fight because Khan has become too arrogant way to soon. I don’t think Peterson will win but I hope he does and it still should be an exciting fight.
the author is an idiot, why dont you focus on something else other than khan!
Khan will KO Peterson in the late rounds…
@duranstheman
Redeem himself vs Maidana? Khan won that one?? Prescott, you mean Prescott who lost to McCloskey? Shouldn’t Khan just fight McCloskey?
Not a Khan fan, but this is an illogical argument that is getting repeated ad nauseam. Prescott needs to redeem his career which over the last six fights is 3-3.
The Maidana would have won if the ref/fight was different is the famous ‘coulda shoulda’ argument. Maidana didn’t do enough to win and Maidana only has himself to blame for not doing enough for the first six rounds and not finishing it when he had the chance. It’s like watching a racehorse get pipped by a neck and saying it would have won if it had a dump before it started.
plain rubbish!
@prettyboy2 learn something about boxing first before commenting! Khan’s last 2 fights were southpaw while Khan is orthodox and where ever southpaw and orthodox fights there is bound to be headbutts!
LOL Its Boxing!Punching is what you supposed to do!!
I’m not sold on Khan yet. Predictable, suspect chin, self adjustments during a fight??? Not wanting to redeem himself with regards to Maidana and Prescott. I have too much respect for boxers to call him a wimp, but I have my doubts as to how he rates in the fishbowl.
I do like his footwork though. It’s not like that’s all he does like some guy called Dirrell.
Khan will destroy Peterson and be the first fighter to stop him
when princess khan starts tiring in later rounds look for the headbutts lol
peterson is young as tall as khan and has as long a reach and there records are similar only lamont has never been stopped unlike khan lol could be interesting is this a ppv fight no its a undercard fight so dont expect to much ppv revenue khan now if you rematched maidana that would be huge money but sadly you are to scared and are a hype job
would like to see him face berto for his first welt bout. He wants belts so that is a good start. But reality is will take on one or two bums. Then get destroyed by floyd but make good money doing it.
KHAN WON HIS LAST 2 FIGHTS ON HEAD BUTTS….. WATCH FOR THE HEAD BUTTS FLYING DURING THE EARLY ROUNDS.
khan been fed a bunch of bums apart from maidana and will soon get figured out and royally KTFO again