Amir Khan to fight Saul Alvarez for WBC world title in Las Vegas

[smashup]

Canello has blatantly avoided Golovkin here but Khan is in a win win situation, he's gonna make BIG money and even if he does lose nobody will care because he's taken a risk by fighting a bigger guy.


If he does win (which I think he will do and very easily) then he's set up for a massive payday next where he can go the Brook route.


I will say it again.... this is an EASY nights work for Amir IF he boxes clever.


Canello will simply be made to look stupid, clueless, slow and very ordinary just like when he chased Floyd around the ring all night


It's Amirs to lose this fight and if he sticks to a strict gameplan he wins every single round.

Smash you been drinking mate bit early in the morning.

Bull and Matador stuff, Canello is a slow fighter and Amir is lightning fast.
Khan knows that one mistake and he's going to sleep, I don't think he'll make that mistake.
I do think he'll make the Ginger one look a mug for 12 rounds though

[Dia bando]

Canello has blatantly avoided Golovkin here but Khan is in a win win situation, he's gonna make BIG money and even if he does lose nobody will care because he's taken a risk by fighting a bigger guy.


If he does win (which I think he will do and very easily) then he's set up for a massive payday next where he can go the Brook route.


I will say it again.... this is an EASY nights work for Amir IF he boxes clever.


Canello will simply be made to look stupid, clueless, slow and very ordinary just like when he chased Floyd around the ring all night


It's Amirs to lose this fight and if he sticks to a strict gameplan he wins every single round.

Smash you been drinking mate bit early in the morning.

Bull and Matador stuff, Canello is a slow fighter and Amir is lightning fast.
Khan knows that one mistake and he's going to sleep, I don't think he'll make that mistake.
I do think he'll make the Ginger one look a mug for 12 rounds though

Smash you could be right but 36 minutes trying to avoid getting hit it's a big ask, he could do it
but Khan has not really been impressive at welter has he, wobbly jelly legs if Khan was the man in the iron mask he would win, but in reality he has a china cup covering his chin mate.

[smashup]

Basically Froch has copied my take on this fight and also see's Khan as very able to win this.


https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-new...-winning/52243

[powerpuncher]

Khan isn't a defensive genius. He isn't mayweather. He has fast hands. He is a good boxer but has multiple flaws and has lost multiple times. I rate Canelo higher than khan on a p4p basis so with the weight advantage, its easy nights work for canelo.

[SugarBoxing]

Khan career will be over after this fight, his last pay check.

[Master]

Khan will one day wake up in the morning training for this fight and think to himself WTF have I done!

[X]

I'm so cynical about this.

It's a blatant PPV pitch for non boxing fans. Khan has an army of mainly stupid followers in the UK who will shell out to see this, and Alvarez has an army of mainly stupid followers in Mexico who will shell out to see this. It's an 'event' fight for the non initiated.

In terms of people who (think they) know a bit about boxing;

- it's a junior middleweight fight for the full middleweight 'title', being contested by a guy who isn't even ranked at super welter and a guy who wasn't ranked at middleweight until his last fight.
- Canelo enters the ring at about 170 for this fight, so he outweighs Khans fighting weight by over 20 pounds.
- if I was a true middleweight, I'd be pretty depressed at having a titleholder at my weight who has no intention of defending against a real middleweight
- shame on Alvarez. This is the equivalent of Kovalev defending his title against Juan Manuel Marquez at the super middleweight limit
- this seems quite ballsy by Khan,as everyone will expect him to get knocked the fuck out, especially when you consider his suspect chin. I suspect he has been chasing a career ending payday for a couple of years against Mayweather or Pac, been unsuccessful, and he is no being throw to the wolves for his last big payday.
- HOWEVER, if he does get bashed up, this doesn't harm his name so he can still check out with a loss to Kell Brook

Having said all that, if he pulls it off it will rank with one of the best wins by a British fighter ever.

Golovkin must be absolutely furious!!.

[Kirkland Laing]

I woke up this morning and my first thought was still disbelief that this fight got made. Big balls by Khan but he's basically just the Cinco de Mayo 2016 version of Josesito Lopez.