Maidana is gonna get sparked out! My assessment.

[PainKiller]

Maidana has never faced anyone so fast, so accurate and someone who can run circles around him.

Khan does have a poor chin indeed, but he has trained to hold his ahnds up and has a completely different style, particular at 140.

Maidana will be hitting glove, getting hit by that mofo of a jab, and then that right and he will hit glvoe again.

His footwork is far too slow for a boxer. All his wins have been with guys who have a 50% lost ratio, or more than 5 loses, bar Ortiz and Cayo. The other issue is, both of those guys are green. He looks real good VS guys who come forward, and does break them down with his high workrate and power, but they are ****** and try to war with him.

Now Khan has been sparked the **** out too, and really badly, but with his new style, better gym, confidence in making weight easily and ATG trainer in Roach and Ariza helping him with conditioning and training, the kid has become damn hard to beat. Heck the Khan that lost to Prescott and dropped down by feather fisted guys could have been KO'd by Paulie.

Corley has lost many times and showed that Maidana's power can be slightly nuetralised with circling movement and hands up. However he is shot to bits.

Khan is young, hugnry and wants to prove **** and as a greedy young man, he wants to make money and Maidana will not get in the way of a potential Mayweather, Pacman, Bradley fight.


Now here is why Khan will beat his ass:

Speed. Khan is extremely fast and Maidana will be hit at will with that jab. His combinations are fast as hell.

Miadana is not slow as people say, but he does not control range well, he needs you to come close.

Khan A- Maidana B-

Accuracy. Khan is going to be very accurate since Maidana squares up so much and even when he holds the gloves up, he is defenceless straight in the middle, and Khan's shots are straight as anyone.

Maidana is wild, but can find the target, but a lot of shots miss, and that is not good VS someone who has fast footwork and mvoes in and out. Kotelnik controlled Maidana decent enough with a jab and high guard, and made Maidana miss and hit glvoe a lot.

Khan A- Maidana C+

Power. Maidana is extremely strong, he has bull like power and throws a lot, he can KO Khan for sure with a well timed shot after a good beat down. He has stopped a lot of his opponents.

Khan is fast and throws a lot himself, and his power is also there. He has fast hands that drop opponents, and dazes them. He has a jab that has been developed that can break Maidana down for sure. You can't get hit by that shot for 12 rounds without being hurt, no matter how much heart Maidana has.

Maidana A Khan B-

Offense


Khan fights most comfortable moving in and out of range, but his offense and picking shots is very good. He outworks you, hitting you a lot, controlling you in that ring. He breaks people down by hitting them a lot.

Maidana is an offensive fighter, totally going to war from round 1. He throws a lot of body shots and to the head and relies on breaking you down before the 12th.

Maidana A Khan A-

Defence Khan can be hit, but his defence is getting better because he holds his hands up all the time now. There are moments he does lose concentration. His lacks body and head movement though, or atleast it is minimal. His footwork is what he uses.

Maidana tends to square up and his hands go low. When he is out of range he brings his hands up, but is still open in the middle. He has no defence when he attacks.

Khan B+ Maidana C

Footwork Khan's footwork is giving him success. He is a good athlete and works hard. He still has issues, but it has improved to a point beyong what most at 140 can handle, particularly Maidana IMO. Paulie has good footwork and Khan surpassed him.

Maidana kind of does not have boxing footwork. He just goes with the flow and gets in when his opponent is hurt or on the ropes. Kotelnik showed me that just by moving backwards, Maidana missed a lot.

Khan B+ Maidana C-

Chin

Maidana has got a solid chin,. Been dropped 3 times vy Ortiz who does seem to hit hard. Dropped atleast once more in another fight. But he gets up and takes it. He hasn't been seriously hurt to me though.

Khan's chin has been questioned from as long as he has boxed. At 135, he has been dropped and hurt often and KTFO. At 140, he took shots that may have hurt him by light weights fighting at 135. Maybe it is better, we will find out.

Maidana A- Khan C-

Heart
Maidana obviously has heart to take the shots and make Ortiz quit.

Khan despite what people think, has heart, He has been hurt and got up. He even tried VS Prescott.

Madiana A- Khan B-

Experience

Maidana has fought Kotelnik and Oritz. Corley is a good test too.

Khan has fought Kotelnik, Paulie and Barrera. Both have some experience away from home, and a lot at home. Not at top world level though.

Khan B+ Maidana B+

Athleticism and body.

Khan has a tall frame, long arms and high stamina. He is strong and fast. Apart from his chin, he has a really good body for boxing.

Maidana has a decent height, decent size, not so fast, but has loads of power and stamina. Not a bad body for boxing at all.

Khan A Maidana B+

Khan has mroe advantages than Maidana. Everyone knows that to beat Khan, winning rounds is damn hard. You need to crack that chin. Prescott did, but can Maidana do that to the new and improved Khan?

Maidana has been beaten by Kotelnik, close fight, but he messed up by throwing at the gloves too much and then getting hit. Maidana can be dropped, and if it goes to 12, that is not a good thing at all.

In my view, skills pay the bills in this fight because Maidana does not have anything to neutralise Khan but a KO shot. If there was a time to bet on a Puncher's chance, this would be it, but I am going to stick with Khan, who I am a fan of, but also the far superior boxer.

As for my grading, I may be wrong on some, and found it ahrd to do, but that's just my own opinion. Feel free to comment and agree, disagree.

KHAN TO WIN BY STOPPAGE.

[BetterCallSaul]

Excellent breakdown and I agree entirely. My only worry is that Khan may walk in to a big Maidana power shot which is always going to be a significant risk. However, if Khan keeps his head and boxes sensibly, this is a fight he can win and win impressively, and at the same time shut the mouths of even his harshest critics. Maidana is the most dangerous man Khan could have fought at 140, so whatever happens he deserves some credit and not ridicule if he is on the wrong end of the result come December.

[ThunderWolf]

I agree, Khan can outbox Maidana all night.

However, I would like Maidana to win, Khan had been comparing himself to Pac recently, pride before the fall.

[Roksan]

What Khan and his fans fail to see is who he has been matched with since the Prescott loss. It’s no accident that Khan has fought nothing but light to moderate punchers since then. Andriy Kotelnik, Marco Antonio Barrera, Dmitri Salita, Oisin ***an and Paulie Malignaggi are not big punchers.

They, like Khan, see him as having improved as a fighter and having acquired a better chin by moving up in weight. That would be a nice to have if there was any proof behind it. I could understand Khan and his fans getting excited about Khan if he had beaten another slugger in the past two years and proved that he can take a huge shot on the chin without folding again.

With all the talk that khan has made abut knocking Maidana out, about being a better fighter than him and about fighting Floyd Mayweather Jr. by the end of next year, it will all seem like a big joke when he folds against Maidana.

[LAFIRPO]

I pick Khan to win. Khan is a complete fighter. However, Maidana's power is going to make the fight interesting.

I am also not sure if Khan will stop Maidana. The only way I see that happening is that if Maidana gets tired towards the end of the fight like he did against Corley.

But he might have not trained properly for Corley.

The most impressive Maidana I've seen was in his loss against Kotelnik.

Think about this for a second, alot of people, including myself, thought Kotelnik eaked out a win against Devon Alexander.

Devon Alexander is supposedly the number 2 guy in the division.

Maidana, lost a split decision to Kotelnik in Germany.

And Khan beat Kotenik easily. Which is when I considered Khan to be for real.

What does this all mean?

I don't know. But it sure is a compelling fight. And these are the fights that I like to watch.

[jimmykaba]

khans will give maidana a pizza face and will be stopped before 8th

[KingTito]

It's possible. Ortiz dropped Maidana a few times, and you can bet your last dollar that Khan won't slug it out like Ortiz did. Having said that, Khan better hope he doesn't get caught. He's gonna have to box very well, which he is certainly capable of doing. I'm looking forward to this fight.

[Crazylegs77]

Will Khan accept a win (after all the talk) via boxing alone?

Seems like he wants to prove something and if so he needs to go toe to toe at some point in there.

Clearly Khan more skilled but so was Ortiz..

[S.G.]

The only way I could see Maidana winning this is if he puts in some good body work in the first half of the fight. At lightweight we saw that Khan's punch resistance around his mid-section is almost as dire as his jaw, so Maidana would have a chance of reducing some of Khan mobility and getting him to drop his hands, or maybe even a body shot K.D./K.O.

Problem being he'll face an onslaught of quick, stiff jabs and straight rights all the while, which won't be easy to tough out.

I don't see Maidana having sustained success up top or even landing a 'bingo shot' unless he can slow Khan down through an early body assault.

[IIG]

Maidana isn't going to know what to do against Khan. From the styles make fights perspective, this is the worst matchup at 140 for Maidana. For all the reasons the TS mentioned, this is a recipe for disaster for him. Hope I'm wrong.