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What mistakes would you say Khan makes in his style? I think he's too predictable. Just looking at his fight with Garcia, he kept throwing 1-2s. Also, his punches are sloppy. The replay for the third round showed that he threw a combination, and his right hand missed wildly, which allowed Garcia to throw a counter left hook over his shoulder and knock him down.
The two main points for me are he falls into attacks and he's too mechanical. He doesnt need to do either to be honest because he's so ridiculously fast. He doesnt need to start punching from ten feet away and he doesnt need to be in roboto 1...2 mode the whole time. Both have been masked in the amateur game because the threat of being sparked the fuck out is greatly reduced. If that threat could be removed (it cant I know) in the pro game the fucker would be almost unbeatable, it'd take supreme skill to beat him.
Khans trouble is that he wants to impress. He wants to impress toooo much. He wants to show he can fight.
Just stick to boxing and he will be okay.
He needs to be more disciplined in all aspects of his life from his training to when he steps into a ring. He's got bags of ability but also clear flaws, which I suppose makes him so good to watch.
His biggest problems imo are his balance and that he doesn't gauge or control distance well at all. Falling into attacks is a good way to put it, he often reaches with his jab when he isn't even in punching range, and winds up with all his weight forward and hands down. If he could have been more patient, developed his jab as a weapon and not just trying to set up the right with it, learned to counter better, then he would have been hard to beat. As it stands I think chin aside his ability is way overrated by some.
In his last fight he got hurt when he got reckless and left himself wide open when he did not have to. He is a knock out waiting to happen.
As imp said he tries too hard to impress. This over eagerness leads to mistakes.
Getting smashed on the chin with flush bombs.
He'd be tough to beat if he had a better chin.
Yep IF he had a better chin he would be very special.
Khan has some good names on his record and can leave the sport with his chin held high.
Its 90% going to be khan as the next floyd opponent and he has all the speed in the world but if diaz can touch him im sure floyd can.
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Originally Posted by Beanflicker
Haha. Thing is that he puts himself in position to get blasted with these shots in the first place though, it's hard to separate his chin from his whole style of fighting in that sense. If he could take a good punch it's unlikely that he'd have the same approach of course, however he fights as though he can right until he gets hit. Nobody at the weight can afford to take flush left hooks from Garcia for instance, even Matthyse could have gotten hurt bad if he didn't see them coming whatsoever.
The biggest mistake he makes is getting in the ring thinking he doesn't have a glass jaw.
He has poor footwork.. His upperbody movement, his punching, isn't in sync with his footwork.
That's why he falls into these akward positions and gets caught with punches that good fighters dont get hit with..