(Photo credit: Esther Lin/Showtime) By Scott Gilfoid: Carlos Molina (17-0, 7 KO’s) is well aware that boxing fans see him as a huge underdog in his fight tonight against Amir Khan (26-3, 18 KO’s) on Showtime, but he doesn’t care. Molina knows that he has the talent and the power to take advantage of Khan’s fragile chin to knock him out.
Molina wants to add Khan’s scalp to his resume and then move on to get the big fights that Golden Boy Promotions is planning for Khan after this fight.
Molina said to Radio Raheem “They say I’m a big underdog, but everybody who knows me knows I’m going to win this fight. Mentally and physically we’re ready. We know Amir Khan has a lot of doubts right now and we’re going to bring that doubt back early in this fight. I’m going to jump on him early in round one. We’re going to make him regret that he chose me. We know he’s going to be pretty defensive in the early rounds, but we’re going to bang away at this guy, but we know he likes to fight. We’re going to make him fight.”
It sounds like Molina is going to use a Lamont Peterson style game plan to beat Khan by taking the fight to him with pressure and forcing him to go to war. Khan tried to slug with Peterson in the early part of the fight, but Peterson broke Khan in the 4th round when the two went toe-to-toe, and after that Khan was running, shoving, and covering up for the remainder of the fight. That’s why Khan lost that fight to Peterson.
If Molina can do the same thing to Khan then he can definitely win this fight, because Khan can’t handle pressure at all. He’s mainly good when he can stand on the outside and dictate what happens in the ring like he did with light punchers Paul McCloskey and Paulie Malignaggi. Khan struggled when he fought guys that came right at him like Breidis Prescott, Peterson, Danny Garcia and Marcos Maidana.
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