Khan destroys Judah: How did people not see this coming?

By Boxing News - 07/24/2011 - Comments

Image: Khan destroys Judah: How did people not see this coming?By Martin Cronin: After reading many articles,from credible sporting websites, predicting the outcome of this fight really left me scratching my head. Was it the Pernell Whitaker factor? or maybe a lot of it was based on the Kaizer Mabuza fight? surely not, but for some bizarre reason people thought this was going to be a step too far for Amir Khan, Judah was going slip and slide Khan’s punches and counter at ease for a couple of rounds before knocking him out wit his devastating power from this wicked left uppercut.

Well this was never going to happen for a number of reasons
1. Khan has arguably the fastest hands in boxing, so he was never going to out punch khan, whenever they were goin to start trading blows, 90% of the time Judah was going to be tho one to back off
2. Khan has more power, all these guys talking about Judah’s power no mention of Khan really left me chewing on my pencil.
3. Khan’s punch accuracy is unquestionably up there with the best in the business. Judah, Malignaggi, McCloskey all these guys with excellent upper body movement, Khan picked them off with ease.

Zab Judah is 33 years old and is clearly past his best, he has been beaten 6 times, not including last night. Now I’m not saying that their is a anything wrong with losing to Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather or Kostya Tszyu. But there is loses to Carlos Baldomir, Joshua Clottey and Cory Spinks.

At the moment the only man on the planet that will beat Amir Khan is Floyd Mayweather Jr. He will never fight Pacquiao, but if they did meet I honestly believe Khan would beat him. But what about that Colombian guy i hear you ask? while their is no hiding from the fact Khan was destroyed that night, Amir Khan is a completely different fighter since that night, just take a look at his legs in that fight, and take a look now, its like comparing Roger Federers left arm to his right, well that fight will never happen as previous Khan victim Paul McCLoskey will defeat him in Belfast in September and in doing so will destroy all hopes of Prescott getting a re-match.



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