Comments Thread For: Floyd Mayweather: Timing Was Not Right For Amir Khan Bout

[KLockard23]

He definitely ducked Khan last September. And don't give me the "he was 38 years old" excuse when he also waited till he was 38 to fight a guy like MANNY PACQUIAO.

In the end, I don't really care 'cause I see little reason to think Khan would win. Styles make fights, anything can happen in boxing, yada yada yada, but still. Amir's glass chin is so fragile he'd probably get knocked out, even.

[bojangles1987]

Khan had multiple chances to pick up wins that would have almost guaranteed him a Mayweather fight. Every time he either lost or turned those fights down. It is 100% his fault that he never landed the Mayweather fight.

[Ray*]

Khan had multiple chances to pick up wins that would have almost guaranteed him a Mayweather fight. Every time he either lost or turned those fights down. It is 100% his fault that he never landed the Mayweather fight.

Mayweather would do what he would do, it doesn't matter if he picked up multiple wins or not. Team Khan are one of the dumbest teams in boxing, but they are learning anyway as they go along, they should have never stop Khan career because of Mayweather, they actually took advise regarding who to fight and when to fight just because they thought Mayweather was going to fight them. Devon Alexander was there with his belt and they pass over him because they listened to outside influence, so for me it doesn't matter if Khan "Picked up" wins because if Mayweather was going to fight him he would with or without any additional "Multiple wins"

[Bronx2245]

Khan had multiple chances to pick up wins that would have almost guaranteed him a Mayweather fight. Every time he either lost or turned those fights down. It is 100% his fault that he never landed the Mayweather fight.

Good post! Please allow me to piggy back. 2013 tells it all. Amir Khan is coming off losses to DSG by TKO, Lamont Peterson by SD, and a win over Carlos Molina, all at 140. Then comes Julio Diaz:

April 27, 2013:

Amir Khan survived an early knockdown and a late onslaught to eke out an unconvincing points win over supposedly damaged goods in Julio Díaz, yet he was told within minutes of the decision that his next fight would be for a world title.

On his return to the UK after an absence of two years, the judges gave it to him 114-113, 115-113 and 115-112, but again Khan's lack of one-punch power allowed his opponent to force him into uncomfortable situations. He had the heart but not the hammer.

I had it a draw, but with the sixth and the 12th even, and two 10-8 rounds to the Mexican, so there was little in it either way. However, the loser will feel aggrieved on two counts: first, that he started too cautiously and second, that he did not receive full dividend for his domination of the second half of the contest.



Marcos Maidana was coming off 3 KOs, and then this happened:

December 14, 2013:

Broner came into tonight with three wins in his career that could have gone the other way. Tonight, he officially lost for the first time, as Marcos Maidana floored him twice, outworked him all night, and clearly won at the Alamodome, sending the roof off the building as 2013 closed with a big-time upset and a major happening for Showtime Sports and all of boxing.

Judges had it 117-109, 116-109, and 115-110 for Maidana. I had it 116-108, and BLH's Ryan Bivins and Kory Kitchen both had it 116-110 for Maidana. Showtime's Al Bernstein had it 115-111, Paulie Malignaggi had it 115-111, and Steve Farhood had it 114-111, all for Maidana.

Broner (27-1, 22 KO) went down in the second round and was badly hurt, but managed to survive the round. He took a lot of big shots that he was able to handle, but Maidana (35-3, 31 KO) definitely made him respect the power early and often. Broner went down again in round eight, and after that, while tying Maidana up, he took what was indeed an intentional headbutt from the Argentinean, but Broner's reaction was the flop of all flops, the worst acting job you'll see in sports. Maidana lost a point for the butt, which was fair, but the next round he outworked Broner so severely that a 10-8 could easily have been scored his way anyway.



There goes Khan's shot at Mayweather! He never recovered! The timing was all wrong for Khan vs. Mayweather!

[Can'tHoldMeBack]

Khans been KOed twice.

Ortiz alone has been KOed 4 times.

What did Berto do at welter to demand that fight ?

Floyd ducked Khan be issue of his speed reach and work rate and the fact Floyd doesn't have the power to expose Khans biggest weakness.

Timing and speed beats power everyday idk why floyd timing and accuracy would hurt khan alone after khan throws his pitty pat combo he leaves himself open or when he jumps in to throw combo floyd would just keep timing him with counter make khan do stinky leg power is not the key to success floyd have kept bigger guys off him with exception of firs chino fight which ppl wanted to see a rematch for because of the performance he put on and Castillo 1

[bojangles1987]

Mayweather would do what he would do, it doesn't matter if he picked up multiple wins or not. Team Khan are one of the dumbest teams in boxing, but they are learning anyway as they go along, they should have never stop Khan career because of Mayweather, they actually took advise regarding who to fight and when to fight just because they thought Mayweather was going to fight them. Devon Alexander was there with his belt and they pass over him because they listened to outside influence, so for me it doesn't matter if Khan "Picked up" wins because if Mayweather was going to fight him he would with or without any additional "Multiple wins"

I disagree, I think it was all but guaranteed that if Khan had fought and beaten Alexander in December 2013, he would have gotten the Mayweather fight instead of Maidana. Instead he passed and waited, Maidana beat Broner, and the rest is history. He could have fought and beaten a number of fighters over the past 5 years that would have given Mayweather a reason to fight him. Instead he sat around begging and Floyd had no reason to fight him.

It is purely Khan's fault, because he and his team were scared to take the risk that would have landed Khan that fight.

[Nomadic]

Ortiz had just come off of a fight of the year performance and he was the WBC champion dum ass, Floyd wanted that belt. A mexican champion who just came off of the fight of the year performance, of course the timing was right.

Guerrero was his mandatory. Funny how yawl complain that Floyd never fights his mandatories (even though he's usually unifying titles in two divisions when he doesn't) and then when he does fight his mandatory, he cherry picking doe. Lol, yawl are clowns.

I can understand the Berto criticism, though I think that was a troll move on his part, seems like he was just tryna troll everyone, especially Amir Khan considering Karim Mayfield and Berto are his stable mates.

Having said that however, Khan should not be excused for the fight not happening. Because Mayweather was busy winning and unifying titles the whole time (Ortiz, Maidana, Canelo, Pacquiao, Cotto), and when he wasn't he was fighting pound for pound listed fighters (Marquez and Mosley).

When Floyd was busy schooling Marquez, the HBO commentators were very critical and spoke about the fact that Floyd was fighting smaller guys (Hatton and Marquez consecutively), actively ignoring how much bigger Baldomir (walked around at 181 pounds and was 162 on fight night) and Oscar Dela Hoya were, and that Judah was the same size as Floyd.

Jim Lampey then posed a question, who is the biggest challenge for Floyd at welterweight? The HBO cast, including Emanuel Stewart, Larry Merchant, and Max Kellerman, all unanimously agreed that any permutation between Pacquiao, Floyd, and Mosley would be the biggest and toughest fight at welterweight. They especially agreed that they wanted Floyd to fight Mosley coz they wanted to see him against full fledged welterweight.

Guess what happened. Floyd called their bluff and fought Mosley in his very next fight. Then the fools complained that Mosley was too old. WTF is that ****? Emanuel Stewart is the only one who was smart enough to realise how much saying that would expose him, and admitted that he couldn't complain given that that was the best fight he thought was available for Floyd apart from Pacquiao.

So anyway, back to the point, what was Amir doing all this time that Floyd was fighting all these ATGs, world champions, pound for pound top 5 rankers, and mandatories?

Nothing, he was literally doing nothing. That's why the timing was never right. When Floyd made the Pac fight, Khan had a chance to make the Brook fight and get that IBF belt and pay per view status. Instead he chose to fight freaken Algieri and expected Floyd to give him a shot after that ****, just so they can criticise Floyd when he schools him and say..."but who has Amir Khan beat anyway?"

The timing will be right if Amir beats Canelo and Floyd comes out of retirement, that happens then there will be no excuses. Amir will have finally done something worthy of Floyd's attention. It's sad when Berto has done more than Amir Khan at welterweight, that was Floyd's point when he took the Berto fight in case you missed it.

Can't be said no better than that.

[Bigg Rigg]

Lmao Floyd's answers are so lame!! Then he always brings up somethings else to deflect the original question. Nobody thought the Pac fight would happen??? Yeah, it happened. 5 yrs and a brutal KO later. It happened though so **** it even though that **** was garbage. At the end of the day, nobody can really argue that Floyd was scared of Khan or would have lost to him but Mayweather fighting bum ass Berto was a joke. Khan should have gotten it before that guy.

[tiliheels]

Khan stopped him in the ammis, and he'd stop him in the pros...

huge jump from pros to ammis...i have an a son that is an ammi stand out right now, but dont get it twisted we fight a pro style so i dont expect to win a gold..but i expect to be a world champ over 12 rounds
just look at lomo and russell top ammi guys but both have loses...salido schooled the kid bc it is all about the pros
khan actually beat him twice, but remember a grown version of ortiz took huge shots from bigger guys and seemed to hurt them worst

[fanofslug]

Lmao Floyd's answers are so lame!! Then he always brings up somethings else to deflect the original question. Nobody thought the Pac fight would happen??? Yeah, it happened. 5 yrs and a brutal KO later. It happened though so **** it even though that **** was garbage. At the end of the day, nobody can really argue that Floyd was scared of Khan or would have lost to him but Mayweather fighting bum ass Berto was a joke. Khan should have gotten it before that guy.

Anyone who starts their argument with "Lmao" is ******ed and not worth paying attention to. Ignored and red K. Thanks.

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