By William Mackay: WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (26-0, 11 KO’s) has an important fight coming up on 1/29 against WBC light welterweight champion Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 KO’s) at the Pontiac Silverdome, in Michigan. Bradley, 27, needs the fight to get to a unification bout with HBO’s new darling WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) later on this year. However, Bradley isn’t the least worried about beating Khan. He sees something in Khan’s style that suggests that he’s not going to be a problem.
Bradley had this to say about Khan in an article at boxingfutures.com: “Devon is in the way of what I’m trying to do. Khan was outstanding against [Marcos] Maidana. He showed a lot of guts and will in that fight, and fought like a true champion. I told him so after the fight. Khan’s a great fighter, but I didn’t see anything to worry me. Styles make fights and I feel like I’ve got a good style to beat him.”
I wouldn’t go so far as to say Khan is a great fighter as Bradley says. Bradley is being a little over diplomatic by praising Khan in such a fashion. Khan is a good fighter in the mold of Paulie Malignaggi but far from a great fighter. Great fighters don’t get knocked out in one round by Breidis Prescott and then refuse to try and avenge their defeats. Great fighters don’t get staggered by Maidana and spent the remainder of the fight from the 10th round on holding, pushing and taking punishment. That’s not a great fighter, that’s a good fighter.
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