Like I said all along Maidana is shite, Khan will demolish him!

[Rantcatrat]

I don't think maidana is anywhere as bad as some say he is, just like i don't belive khan is close to as good as some think he is. Madiana vs khan would be a decent fight and answer questions for them both. Can khan take a punch ? Can maidana treat anyone higher than a prospect the way he handled ortiz and that cayo kid. I don't think anyone wonders if khan can box better than maidana of course he can, but madana will catch him at least a few times and last time he was caught he was slumped up in that corner with that prescott guy thinking he was hot shit all of the sudden. I'm just sayin khan has been already beaten by a lot worse than maidana, cause prescott is garbage so just prove to us it was a fluke. C'mon paulie doesn't count he really doesn't even hit back. If i had to bet i'd probably put my money on khan but i sure as heck wouldn't be surprised if i never saw that money again.

exactly, Khan obviously would be the favorite due to his size and overall better technical skill, but he would be taking a risk against a massive puncher (probably the hardest hitting fighter at that weight), Khan does tend to mix it up and get tagged, hell Malignaggi even managed to mark Khan up a bit and well that's the equivalence of having rolls of Charmin toilet paper thrown at you by a two year old, I want to see how Khan reacts after getting hit clean upstairs by a guy with awesome power, and believe me he'd get more credit for that fight than anything else he's done in his career

Agreed with what's in bold. I'm not a Khan fan, but I admit that if he survived another test by a big puncher, like Maidana, and won, I'd give him a lot more credit than I gave him for his win over Paulie. Consider that Prescott is nothing special at junior welterweight (in fact, I'd favor Maidana to destroy him) but he knocked Khan out in one round, and since the fight with Prescott, not one of Khan's opponents - Paulie, Salita, Kotelnyk, Fagan, and Barrera - were junior welterweights that can punch. Whereas punching power is all Maidana possesses. My opinion if they meet is that Khan should win, if not dominate, but all Maidana needs is to land one big punch. And for that reason, the match is interesting.

Skel, we can agree that Khan's main weakness, and maybe only weakness, is his chin. If you were his handlers, who would you avoid? The answer is someone with punching power and enough boxing skills that there is a risk that eventually he'll tag Khan. That in a nutshell is Maidana. And that is why Roach avoided the mandatory fight with him to fight Paulie. Paulie has much more boxing skills than Maidana, but absolutely no punching power.