By William Mackay: 5’6″ lightweight Carlos Molina (17-0, 7 KO’s) is considered a big underdog against the taller, heavier, faster, stronger and much more experienced Amir Khan (26-3, 18 KO’s) in their December 15th match-up, but Molina feels he’s going to pull off a huge upset in this fight at Sports Arena, in Los Angeles, California, USA. The fight will be in Molina’s backyard, as he comes from Rosemead and he could have a substantial amount of fans giving him support for this fight.
Molina said at the recent press conference with Khan “He [Khan] made a big mistake [in fighting me]. I’m fighting here in my hometown. This is a coming out party.”
In looking at the two fighters stand eye to eye, Khan really isn’t that much bigger than Molina. What Molina lacks in height he makes up in size and he could surprise some people with his power if he’s able to land some of his big shots. Molina’s going to be changing his game for this fight by looking to load up with his shots to aim to Khan’s fragile chin. Khan is better at boxing but he’s probably not rugged enough to stand and trade even with a guy like Molina. In looking at Molina’s fights, he appears to punch as hard as Lamont Peterson. Khan had problems with taking Peterson’s power in their fight last December. Boxing fans saw that with Khan running from Peterson from the 5th round in order to escape his pressure.
Khan is coming off of a bad knockout loss to WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia last July and quite frequently when a fighter has been knocked out as badly as Khan was in that fight they’re prone to getting knocked out easier in their subsequent fights. It’ll only be five months since Khan was knocked out when he enters the ring against Molina and that’s not very long coming off of that kind of a bad knockout.
Garcia might have shook something loose in Khan’s head in that fight that Molina can take advantage of. It doesn’t matter that Molina isn’t the biggest puncher in the world. If he can land a punch that he loads up on against Khan, he could win this fight. Molina’s advantage in this fight is that he’s a much better inside fighter than Khan, and he’ll have opportunities to land his big punches in close as long as the referee isn’t getting in the way of the inside action like we saw in the past with Khan’s fight against Marcos Maidana.
Molina just has to make sure he keeps throwing punches if Khan decides to grab him by the head to pulling forward like he tends to do against fighters that work on the inside. If the referee won’t do anything about Khan doing this bit of fouling then Molina has to keep throwing punches.
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