McCrory: Khan has the style to beat Mayweather

By Boxing News - 11/29/2013 - Comments

mayweather434by Scott Gilfoid: Sky Sports analyst Glenn McCrory believes that Amir Khan (28-3, 19 KO’s) has the speed and the style to give Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) his first defeat of his career on May 3rd when/if this fight is put together. McCrory already said that Khan has him believing that he’ll be Mayweather’s next opponent, but he also has him under the impression that he’s going to beat the 36-year-old Mayweather in this fight.

“He’s [Khan] the one man who’s faster than Mayweather,” McCrory said to Sky Sports. “Mayweather isn’t the kind of hunt-you-down lethal finisher either, so Khan definitely has a chance. He will give him problems because he’s got speed. The other thing is that Khan’s usual weakness of getting hit won’t be as much of a problem because Mayweather is more of a counter-puncher. He could be the busier man and maybe nick a decision. He’s got the style to do it.”

I think Mayweather would have to have lost a lot from his last fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez for Khan to have any chance of beating Mayweather in this fight. McCrory needs to remember how poor Khan looked in his last four fights against Lamont Peterson, Danny Garcia, Carlos Molina and Julio Diaz. One of those fighters, possibly Peterson, seems to have taken something out of Khan, because he hasn’t looked good since his win over Zab Judah two years ago. That was the fight that ended with Khan pushing down on Judah’s head and nailing him on the belt line while his head was being held down.

It looked like a dirty move by Khan, and sadly the referee counted that as a legit knockdown/knockout. It probably didn’t matter in the big scheme of things because Judah looked over-matched on his way to losing anyway, but it still left a bad taste in your mouth to see Khan getting credit for a knockout like that.

Khan has speed, but he fights the same way all the time with him charging forward to throw the same type of combinations, and it probably wouldn’t take Mayweather more than a round or two to figure out Khan’s tendencies and then nail him with a big left hook to plan him on the canvas. With Mayweather, he’ll keep nailing you with shots when he finds out what your weaknesses are, and I don’t see Khan being able to change his flaws on the fly to prevent Mayweather from knocking him out.



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