Re: 135 Marco Antoio Barrera vs Amir Khan ??
Khan not being exactly junior jones, he does have enough height, movement and some speed (minus the hoppy kangaroo thing) that it could cause a prime barrera problems. Barrera was not the hardest puncher, and before he refined himself to school Hamed and later outbox many of his mexican slugging peers, he was a brawler. So using the Hamed fight as a guage for barrera, It carries him further through the fight. I just think khans style in particular, bores barrera and leaves him feeling disinterested after chasing him around the ring a few times and being jousted with the lunging straight punches. It becomes an uninspired performance for MAB... barring a presscott-esque shot landed in an exchange... which there could be more or as Khan gets lured into slugfests he has no business of being in, quite often.
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