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    How am I bending the truth?? He is Old by Boxing standards!!! I was a freshman in high school 1989 when Barrera tuned pro and now I am 33, Marco is old and thats the reality

    Also you bring up the Junior Jones losses, why? at that level sure I can see taking 2 scrub fights because he wasnt the renowned world class hall of famer

    it wasnt until after that he beat

    Tapia

    Ayala

    Hamed

    Kelly

    Morales 2X
    and other stops along the way.

    That he became the legend he is..My point is if you achieved a level of greatness like he did, you dont fight in chinese gyms against God awful opposition. When you regress that far back, your not great anymore, plain and simple. You dont have it, its over..

    Kahn has tremendous upside to him, sure he has a suspect chin but he has all the tangibles and tools to be an excellent fighter, if they can work to help protect that chin, than he will do good things.. That my friend will be enough to defeat an old, uninterested past his best Barrera

    I am getting no more frustrated than you did at Bilbo when he was debating with you about Kahns speeding, and aspirations of being a champion
    First off i never got frustated at Bilbo i just pointed out, why i dislike Amir Khan i never once got frustrated. Secondly 33 years old isn't always old for some fighters. Granted MAB isn't what he used to be but what im not getting is how the hell you can tell MAB is a C+ fighter.

    When MAB gave very good account of himself against two of the best P4P fighters in the world. And hasn't shown he is a C+ fighter, your just assuming there is no evidence of that in his last few fights.

    The reason im bringing up the Junior Jones losses, is because he's doing exactly what he's doing now what he done then. Take a break from boxing, then fight a couple of journeyman fighters to get the rust off, to get ready to start fighting better opponents in the future.

    And i think your really overrating Amir Khan here, i don't think he has the tools to be an excellent fighter at all. His defense is terrible at times and his chin is just ridiculously bad. Sure he has speed and some pop, but he hasn't got the talent that fighters like Yuriorkis Gamboa, Abner Mares, have.

    Weak chin or not if you have great skills, you shouldn't be getting dropped and hurt by D class fighters. Terry Norris had a very weak chin but he reigned at Jr Middleweight for years, because he had excellent skills. Thomas Hearns had a suspect chin but he had excellent skills and look what he achieved.

    So these fighters could more often than not get away with it because they have excellent skills. Amir Khan doesn't he has talent for certain but does he have excellent skills or have the tools be an excellent fighter ? you have to be kidding me he isn't even the most talented prospect at the moment.
    Im done with this conversation... Barrera is an OLD BOXER Fact, JMM is the same age and is the #2 fighter in the world, at 35 is still a world class operator and if he lost I doubt he would be taking warm up fights in chinese gyms against scrubs..

    Barrera is not world class anymore, I could go in circles with you but for the sake of being redundant, Im satisfied that I have proved my point

    Kahn is only 21 so he is still developing, he has all the raw talent .
    What have you proved though ? all of your comments are assumptions not facts. I gave you facts while MAB is not past it, because from previous fights he certainly didn't look old or a C+ fighter as you put it.

    Which i have no idea how you come to that conclusion considering his fights with JMM, Manny Pacquiao. What class does that make JMM, Manny Pacquiao, then ?

    Even when MAB was in his prime after he lost he fought scrubs as warm up fights. I really don't know why your making such a big deal out of it, Mostly every boxer fights scrubs to get rounds in or get the rust off.

    I don't see how that proves MAB is a shot fighter, and considering he has another tune up before the Amir Khan fight that proves my point.

    You say Amir Khan is still learning but has he learned ? he supposedly had a new trainer to teach him defense. But he still dropped his hands after finishing a combination moving backwards.

    Obviously you can teach defense but its more of a natural instinct, i know everytime i finished throwing a combination and move backwards. My natural instinct is too put my hands up straight away, Amir Khan doesn't seem to have that instinct and he may never learn.

    He hasn't learnt all through the Amateurs or in the Pro's. Even with different trainers so i don't see what else can be done. He is very chinny and if he doesn't improve his defense talent or not, he will never move up. And i doubt he can dramatically improve his defense that quickly before the MAB fight.

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    First off i never got frustated at Bilbo i just pointed out, why i dislike Amir Khan i never once got frustrated. Secondly 33 years old isn't always old for some fighters. Granted MAB isn't what he used to be but what im not getting is how the hell you can tell MAB is a C+ fighter.

    When MAB gave very good account of himself against two of the best P4P fighters in the world. And hasn't shown he is a C+ fighter, your just assuming there is no evidence of that in his last few fights.

    The reason im bringing up the Junior Jones losses, is because he's doing exactly what he's doing now what he done then. Take a break from boxing, then fight a couple of journeyman fighters to get the rust off, to get ready to start fighting better opponents in the future.

    And i think your really overrating Amir Khan here, i don't think he has the tools to be an excellent fighter at all. His defense is terrible at times and his chin is just ridiculously bad. Sure he has speed and some pop, but he hasn't got the talent that fighters like Yuriorkis Gamboa, Abner Mares, have.

    Weak chin or not if you have great skills, you shouldn't be getting dropped and hurt by D class fighters. Terry Norris had a very weak chin but he reigned at Jr Middleweight for years, because he had excellent skills. Thomas Hearns had a suspect chin but he had excellent skills and look what he achieved.

    So these fighters could more often than not get away with it because they have excellent skills. Amir Khan doesn't he has talent for certain but does he have excellent skills or have the tools be an excellent fighter ? you have to be kidding me he isn't even the most talented prospect at the moment.
    Im done with this conversation... Barrera is an OLD BOXER Fact, JMM is the same age and is the #2 fighter in the world, at 35 is still a world class operator and if he lost I doubt he would be taking warm up fights in chinese gyms against scrubs..

    Barrera is not world class anymore, I could go in circles with you but for the sake of being redundant, Im satisfied that I have proved my point

    Kahn is only 21 so he is still developing, he has all the raw talent .
    What have you proved though ? all of your comments are assumptions not facts. I gave you facts while MAB is not past it, because from previous fights he certainly didn't look old or a C+ fighter as you put it.

    Which i have no idea how you come to that conclusion considering his fights with JMM, Manny Pacquiao. What class does that make JMM, Manny Pacquiao, then ?

    Even when MAB was in his prime after he lost he fought scrubs as warm up fights. I really don't know why your making such a big deal out of it, Mostly every boxer fights scrubs to get rounds in or get the rust off.

    I don't see how that proves MAB is a shot fighter, and considering he has another tune up before the Amir Khan fight that proves my point.

    You say Amir Khan is still learning but has he learned ? he supposedly had a new trainer to teach him defense. But he still dropped his hands after finishing a combination moving backwards.

    Obviously you can teach defense but its more of a natural instinct, i know everytime i finished throwing a combination and move backwards. My natural instinct is too put my hands up straight away, Amir Khan doesn't seem to have that instinct and he may never learn.

    He hasn't learnt all through the Amateurs or in the Pro's. Even with different trainers so i don't see what else can be done. He is very chinny and if he doesn't improve his defense talent or not, he will never move up. And i doubt he can dramatically improve his defense that quickly before the MAB fight.
    You havent gave any facts ICE, you have just gave opinions..

    MAB is not the same fighter he is old and cant do what he once could, he is at the twilight of his career... He gave a mediocre showing against JMM and did zip against Pac.. Looked nothing like the fighter that we all came to love in either of those fights..

    He is fighting a bigger, stronger, faster younger fighter, who is hungry and is anxious to prove a point after being embarassed.

    Its a natural progression that every fighter goes thru, whether you want to believe it or not.. Barrera's time has come and gone, now he will be a litmus test for a young upstart..

    Also were do you see Barrera going after this, even if he wasnt going to fight Kahn or say he beats him what type fighter in the game today do you give him a chance to beat.. Your only an A-B fighter if your beating those type of guys... So who is Barrera going to defeat at the top?
    Last edited by JT Rock; 01-18-2009 at 07:54 PM.

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    Im done with this conversation... Barrera is an OLD BOXER Fact, JMM is the same age and is the #2 fighter in the world, at 35 is still a world class operator and if he lost I doubt he would be taking warm up fights in chinese gyms against scrubs..

    Barrera is not world class anymore, I could go in circles with you but for the sake of being redundant, Im satisfied that I have proved my point

    Kahn is only 21 so he is still developing, he has all the raw talent .
    What have you proved though ? all of your comments are assumptions not facts. I gave you facts while MAB is not past it, because from previous fights he certainly didn't look old or a C+ fighter as you put it.

    Which i have no idea how you come to that conclusion considering his fights with JMM, Manny Pacquiao. What class does that make JMM, Manny Pacquiao, then ?

    Even when MAB was in his prime after he lost he fought scrubs as warm up fights. I really don't know why your making such a big deal out of it, Mostly every boxer fights scrubs to get rounds in or get the rust off.

    I don't see how that proves MAB is a shot fighter, and considering he has another tune up before the Amir Khan fight that proves my point.

    You say Amir Khan is still learning but has he learned ? he supposedly had a new trainer to teach him defense. But he still dropped his hands after finishing a combination moving backwards.

    Obviously you can teach defense but its more of a natural instinct, i know everytime i finished throwing a combination and move backwards. My natural instinct is too put my hands up straight away, Amir Khan doesn't seem to have that instinct and he may never learn.

    He hasn't learnt all through the Amateurs or in the Pro's. Even with different trainers so i don't see what else can be done. He is very chinny and if he doesn't improve his defense talent or not, he will never move up. And i doubt he can dramatically improve his defense that quickly before the MAB fight.
    You havent gave any facts ICE, you have just gave opinions..

    MAB is not the same fighter he is old and cant do what he once could, he is at the twilight of his career... He gave a mediocre showing against JMM and did zip against Pac.. Looked nothing like the fighter that we all came to love in either of those fights..

    He is fighting a bigger, stronger, faster younger fighter, who is hungry and is anxious to prove a point after being embarassed.

    Its a natural progression that every fighter goes thru, whether you want to believe it or not.. Barrera's time has come and gone, now he will be a litmus test for a young upstart..

    Also were do you see Barrera going after this, even if he wasnt going to fight Kahn or say he beats him what type fighter in the game today do you give him a chance to beat.. Your only an A-B fighter if your beating those type of guys... So who is Barrera going to defeat at the top?
    Im seriously questioning if you've even seen JMM vs MAB, because by the sounds of it you haven't. You first produced the scorecards suggesting to me MAB wasn't competitive. When actually anyone who saw the fight knows it was razor thin close.

    Now you have just said MAB put in a mediocre performance ? are you kidding me JT ? MAB fought a very good fight against JMM he landed more punches, marked up JMM's face up pretty badly.

    He was also able to knockdown JMM and stay pretty even with JMM in the countering battle. MAB lost by 2 rounds at max and you could even make an argument he won the fight. So how the hell can it be a mediocre performance especially against the 2nd P4P fighter in the world ?

    What are you saying ? seriously that doesn't even make sense. Because going by that logic JMM is just above mediocre, if he struggled badly against a MAB who put in a average performance according to you.

    Against Manny Pacquiao it was pretty close as i said before, until after the 9th round. But MAB fought a smart fight he just wasn't active enough, but he did make the P4P number 1 fighter look bad so i would hardly say it was a bad performance.

    Lastly i have gave you facts the facts are right there in those 2 fights, in none of those fights did he look like a C+ class fighter. Your assumptions that MAB will look like a C+ class fighter is just that an assumption, nothing more nothing less you cannot give me any facts to prove so.

    Because in none of his previous fights has he looked anywhere close to a C+ class fighter. Im not making out those were his finest performances but jesus JT, he was fighting the two best P4P fighters in the world, i think he gave good account of himself in the Manny Pacquiao fight, and a superb account of himself in the JMM fight.

    Amir Khan hasn't even been in with a B+ class fighter yet, and he was recently KO'ed by a nobody. And he has struggled against fighters even lower than C+ class.

    Lastly who do i see MAB beating at Lightweight ? assuming he is ok at that weight ? Michael Katsidis, Juan Diaz, David Diaz, Julio Diaz, Edwin Valero, ETC. And i'd give him a decent chance against Nate Campbell, Joel Casamayor, ETC. Even if he didn't beat all the top fighters at Lightweight, he would be very competitive with every single one of them, if as i said he is fine at the weight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ICB View Post
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    What have you proved though ? all of your comments are assumptions not facts. I gave you facts while MAB is not past it, because from previous fights he certainly didn't look old or a C+ fighter as you put it.

    Which i have no idea how you come to that conclusion considering his fights with JMM, Manny Pacquiao. What class does that make JMM, Manny Pacquiao, then ?

    Even when MAB was in his prime after he lost he fought scrubs as warm up fights. I really don't know why your making such a big deal out of it, Mostly every boxer fights scrubs to get rounds in or get the rust off.

    I don't see how that proves MAB is a shot fighter, and considering he has another tune up before the Amir Khan fight that proves my point.

    You say Amir Khan is still learning but has he learned ? he supposedly had a new trainer to teach him defense. But he still dropped his hands after finishing a combination moving backwards.

    Obviously you can teach defense but its more of a natural instinct, i know everytime i finished throwing a combination and move backwards. My natural instinct is too put my hands up straight away, Amir Khan doesn't seem to have that instinct and he may never learn.

    He hasn't learnt all through the Amateurs or in the Pro's. Even with different trainers so i don't see what else can be done. He is very chinny and if he doesn't improve his defense talent or not, he will never move up. And i doubt he can dramatically improve his defense that quickly before the MAB fight.
    You havent gave any facts ICE, you have just gave opinions..

    MAB is not the same fighter he is old and cant do what he once could, he is at the twilight of his career... He gave a mediocre showing against JMM and did zip against Pac.. Looked nothing like the fighter that we all came to love in either of those fights..

    He is fighting a bigger, stronger, faster younger fighter, who is hungry and is anxious to prove a point after being embarassed.

    Its a natural progression that every fighter goes thru, whether you want to believe it or not.. Barrera's time has come and gone, now he will be a litmus test for a young upstart..

    Also were do you see Barrera going after this, even if he wasnt going to fight Kahn or say he beats him what type fighter in the game today do you give him a chance to beat.. Your only an A-B fighter if your beating those type of guys... So who is Barrera going to defeat at the top?
    Im seriously questioning if you've even seen JMM vs MAB, because by the sounds of it you haven't. You first produced the scorecards suggesting to me MAB wasn't competitive. When actually anyone who saw the fight knows it was razor thin close.

    Now you have just said MAB put in a mediocre performance ? are you kidding me JT ? MAB fought a very good fight against JMM he landed more punches, marked up JMM's face up pretty badly.

    He was also able to knockdown JMM and stay pretty even with JMM in the countering battle. MAB lost by 2 rounds at max and you could even make an argument he won the fight. So how the hell can it be a mediocre performance especially against the 2nd P4P fighter in the world ?

    What are you saying ? seriously that doesn't even make sense. Because going by that logic JMM is just above mediocre, if he struggled badly against a MAB who put in a average performance according to you.

    Against Manny Pacquiao it was pretty close as i said before, until after the 9th round. But MAB fought a smart fight he just wasn't active enough, but he did make the P4P number 1 fighter look bad so i would hardly say it was a bad performance.

    Lastly i have gave you facts the facts are right there in those 2 fights, in none of those fights did he look like a C+ class fighter. Your assumptions that MAB will look like a C+ class fighter is just that an assumption, nothing more nothing less you cannot give me any facts to prove so.

    Because in none of his previous fights has he looked anywhere close to a C+ class fighter. Im not making out those were his finest performances but jesus JT, he was fighting the two best P4P fighters in the world, i think he gave good account of himself in the Manny Pacquiao fight, and a superb account of himself in the JMM fight.

    Amir Khan hasn't even been in with a B+ class fighter yet, and he was recently KO'ed by a nobody. And he has struggled against fighters even lower than C+ class.

    Lastly who do i see MAB beating at Lightweight ? assuming he is ok at that weight ? Michael Katsidis, Juan Diaz, David Diaz, Julio Diaz, Edwin Valero, ETC. And i'd give him a decent chance against Nate Campbell, Joel Casamayor, ETC. Even if he didn't beat all the top fighters at Lightweight, he would be very competitive with every single one of them, if as i said he is fine at the weight.
    Yes I saw the fight, Barrera USED to be one of those top guys, who on his best day could have beat JMM and given that he had plenty of preperation and a complete camp this time against PAC like he didnt a few years ago I would have said a younger Barrera could have won..

    I feel Barrera is old, uninterested at this point and is there to be taken as a scalp for a younger guys resume...

    To me this whole thing really hinges on the move up in weight against a younger, fresher, stronger athletically superior fighter... Barrera at this point cant battle father time.

    Like I said, find me a worldclass operator A-B level fighter takeing warm up fights in chinese gyms against 17 loss guys??

    I appreciate your opinion, but I'm keeping mind... Thanks for trying

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    Barerra ended his GBP deal to set up his own promotions company but now he's being promoted by Don King. He was making two million a year just by being part of GBP. Why would he leave that and then sign with King?

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    Quote Originally Posted by ICB View Post
    Obviously you can teach defense but its more of a natural instinct, i know everytime i finished throwing a combination and move backwards. My natural instinct is too put my hands up straight away, Amir Khan doesn't seem to have that instinct and he may never learn.

    He hasn't learnt all through the Amateurs or in the Pro's. Even with different trainers so i don't see what else can be done. He is very chinny and if he doesn't improve his defense talent or not, he will never move up. And i doubt he can dramatically improve his defense that quickly before the MAB fight.
    What boxing club are you a member of? You've had three fights, right?

    I would have thought a young amatuer boxer would RESPECT Amir Khan greatly.. considering his tremendous success as an amatuer?
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