By Anthony Starkson: In a recent article, it is pointed out that the only reason why Amir’s fans think that he will beat Maidana is because of his easy unanimous decision over Andreas Kotelnik. Kotelnik beat Maidana by a controversial split decision. Unfortunately, there hasn’t been a good analysis done on this great fight in a while.
Most writers say that most Khan fans haven’t seen Maidana’s fight with Kotelnik, and how badly his face was bruised after the fight. I did see the fight and bad decisions happen all the time in boxing, even though I had Kotelnik up by one round. Maidana landed some big shots throughout the fight, but Kotelnik landed more punches in every round, compared to Maidana’s one big shot per round.
Now, the real reason why Khan will make Maidana look like a novice come December 11th is just plain simple. Well, first of all, there are several reasons why Maidana will get back to the local scene in Argentina. First of all, Khan has enormous speed, and has a considerable amount of power to go with that speed. He stopped undefeated Dmitry Salita in 76 seconds in their fight last year using that lethal speed. The second reason why Maidana will lose is because of all of the physical advantages Khan has, Khan stands at 5’11”, while Maidana barely breaks 5’8”. This obviously means a reach advantage in favor of Khan, and no one utilizes that better in the junior welterweight division than him.
The argument that biased “writers” present is that there is no way Khan can avoid Maidana’s punches for a full 12 rounds. The problem for them is that he doesn’t need to. After about 8 or 9 rounds, Maidana will start tiring out, because he will have been going for the knockout since the opening bell. Not to mention that Khan will land those jet-like combinations off Maidana’s face like a punching bag. Another thing to think about is that if Khan could avoid punches from a much more precise and better boxer like Paulie Malignaggi, then how does Maidana expect to land on Khan? It has also been stated that “Victor Cayo, a good light-welterweight” also tried to use the ring against Maidana, but still got knocked out. Two things to think about: Victor Cayo was not even ranked in the top 15 at the time in the 140 pound division, and secondly, he held his hands down the whole fight, and you aren’t supposed to do that against a big puncher.
So the bottom line is that Khan will stop the one-dimensional Maidana in the ninth round come December 11th. Until then, we might as well talk about Khan and the winner of Bradley-Alexander
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