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Maidana is going to knock the Islam outta Khan. King Khan is my boy too
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LAS VEGAS -- When Golden Boy Promotions and HBO were putting together Saturday night's "World Championship Boxing" card (9:30 ET) they first finalized the outstanding main event, which pits junior welterweight titlist Amir Khan defending against powerful interim titlist Marcos Maidana.

When it came to constructing the co-feature, Victor Ortiz, a top junior welterweight contender who suffered a loss to Maidana in a memorable slugfest, was always penciled in.

However, finding a suitable opponent for the 23-year-old Ortiz (28-2-1, 22 KOs) was a challenge. First, they looked to former titlist Andriy Kotelnik, who turned down the fight. He was fresh from an excellent (although losing) performance in a close decision against titleholder Devon Alexander in August. South Africa's Kaizer Mabuza also was offered the fight, but he was mandatory for a belt and his handlers turned down the fight, instead preferring to fight for a vacant title.

Third on the list was Lamont Peterson. I've been following Peterson and his brother, lightweight Anthony Peterson, since shortly after they turned pro in 2004. Both had the look, drive and amateur background to perhaps both become champions. They also had a well-documented and, ultimately uplifting, story of a hard childhood. They had come from a broken home and wound up literally living on the streets of Washington, D.C., until Barry Hunter, their savior, brought them into his family. He gave them a home, brought them to the gym as teens and became their trainer and de facto father.

While their story has been uplifting, the brothers have not yet fulfilled the boxing potential so many had seen in them. Lamont, although he fought maybe the best fight of his pro career, was dominated by Timothy Bradley Jr.in a title opportunity last December, losing a surprisingly one-sided decision.

Anthony was the heavy favorite in his HBO debut against Brandon Rios in September, but was disqualified for excessive low blows in the seventh round. Frankly, it looked to me like Anthony cracked under the pressure and didn't know how to deal with the fact that he was losing the fight, and purposely went low to get himself DQ'd.

Anthony hasn't fought since his loss, and Lamont rebounded from his with a win against a lesser opponent, but they are both at something of a crossroads.

So when the Golden Boy and HBO search for an Ortiz opponent reached three deep, they looked to Lamont Peterson to see if he was interested.

Interested? How about so interested that Peterson (28-1, 14 KOs) and Hunter accepted the fight without knowing any terms other than the opponent and date. They hadn't asked about the money. Didn't know how many rounds it would be scheduled for (it's 10). Didn't know about options on Peterson's future fights, which would be important since he was a promotional free agent after his contract with Top Rank had expired.

The way Peterson saw it, all of that would get worked out. He just wanted to fight and put himself back in the position for a championship and big money.

"Listen, I'm really excited about this fight this weekend," Peterson said. "It should be a good fight. I'm just happy to be in a division where there's a lot of good fighters. I'm just happy to be one of those fighters to have a chance to be a great fighter."

Ultimately, all the details of the fight were worked out, and I give Peterson a lot of credit for simply taking the fight even before that, knowing what a great opportunity it would be to fight a quality opponent such as Ortiz on HBO.

Peterson and Hunter understand that if Peterson wins, he is right in the thick of things in a weight class with a lot of possibilities and money. The winner of Khan-Maidana will need an opponent down the road. Bradley and Alexander fight each other Jan. 29, and they'll also need future opponents (and Peterson says he really wants a rematch with Bradley). Zab Judah likely will face Mabuza for a vacant belt, and that winner will need an opponent.

Peterson, who is 26, said their was no hesitancy on his side to accept the fight with Ortiz, even before knowing all of the terms.

"Well, with me, you know, I just love to fight with guys," he said. "Victor, a cab driver, or, you know, a chance. If it's Manny Pacquiao or anybody, I just love to fight. So when the opportunity comes up, fighting on HBO and fighting a guy like Victor Ortíz, of course, I'm going to jump at it.

"As a professional boxer, it's my job. I look at boxing as a job and as a hobby. I feel as though there was no problem with me taking this fight. I think more fighters need to act that way where just because the person can fight doesn't mean that you're not supposed to fight them. People want to see good matchups, and if I can give it to them, then I definitely will sign the papers to fight anyone."

I love Peterson's attitude, and I'm glad he signed, and that Kotelnik and Mabuza didn't. Peterson against Ortiz is a more interesting fight to me than either of the other two. Now it's up to Peterson to show, with his performance, that he and Hunter made the right call.

 
What is it with these fighters from Argentina?

Sergio Martinez, the middleweight champion of the world, didn't even put on a pair of boxing gloves until he was 20, dreaming instead of fulfilling his athletic potential as a soccer star.

Marcos Maidana, who challenges Amir Khan for a junior welterweight title at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on Saturday night, at least began boxing at an earlier age. But he admits that there were times in his childhood that he contemplated instead becoming a gaucho, a cowboy and ranch hand of the Argentine pampas.

"Yeah, yeah, I used to ride horses," he says. "Being on a farm, you think about it, of course. But boxing changed my whole life around. Soon after I started it, I moved from the farm to the city."

Despite suffering just one loss, he was not widely known when he stepped into the ring at Staples Center in Los Angeles in June '09 to take on rising star Victor Ortiz. After Ortiz knocked him down in the first, it didn't appear as if his fame would increase at all. But he knocked down Ortiz in that same round and outlasted him in a fierce duel.

The prospect arose of a bout with Timothy Bradley, widely regarded as the best of the 140-pound crop, but although the two signed to meet earlier this year, multiple postponements on Maidana's part, the result of a combination of injury and management issues, caused the American to select a different path that will result in him facing Devon Alexander in Detroit in January.

Maidana says he would like to face the winner of that fight, "but I'm not thinking past this test. I'm not thinking beyond Saturday."

The conventional wisdom is that the taller Khan wins by boxing and Maidana's best shot is to draw the Briton into the same kind of brawl that saw him defeat Ortiz, but Maidana doesn't necessarily see it that way.

"It doesn't matter to me," he says. "I've worked in the gym for everything. Every scenario."

Between Maidana and 2010's near-certain "Fighter of the year" Martinez, boxing in Argentina is on an upswing, and although the junior welterweight may be Robin to the middleweight champ's Batman right now, he knows that a victory against Khan could change everything for him.

"I think if I win this fight, a lot bigger fights are going to come around," he says. "I want to be one of the elite fighters in the division. We're getting a lot more attention now. Sergio Martinez is doing his job and I'm trying to do my part, and we want to be able to get some spotlight in Argentina. Right now, I'm pretty well-known back home, but after victory on Saturday night, everyone is going to know about me."

 
Victor Ortiz walks into the gym full of smiles, greeting reporters he knows well with hugs as he prepares for a public workout. His outgoing personality, allied with his aggressive fighting style, marked him out early as a potential star, and that potential seemed destined to be fulfilled in June '09 when, headlining at Staples Center in Los Angeles -- his first turn at the top of a televised card -- he dropped Marcos Maidana in the first round.

But then Ortiz walked straight into a right hand as he moved in for the kill, and despite putting Maidana down again in the following frame, found himself drawn into a slugfest in which Maidana emerged victorious and after which Ortiz suggested that maybe this wasn't the right business for him. Fans and media were alternately outraged by and dismissive of his comments, but they were words that even now, Ortiz does not recall.

"I still to this day haven't seen the fight," he says. "After that knockdown, I don't even remember getting up. I thought I was asleep."

The lack of recollection perhaps has helped him move on.

"That happened that night and I left it there. Never took it home with me," he says.

But he recognizes that maybe what happened to him that night was a signal.

"Maybe I started thinking I was getting too good too fast, but I was grounded pretty quick," he says. "Every fight since my defeat, I just pay greater attention to my coaches and work on my mistakes. I have a lot of confidence in my team right now, because I haven't slacked at all. I followed my diet, I followed my training regimen, I listened to all my coaches."

After racking up four straight wins, Ortiz continues his comeback against once-beaten Lamont Peterson on Saturday at the Mandalay Bay. The fight comes on the back of a third-round knockout of Vivian Harris that was arguably his most impressive since the Staples Center loss, and one in which, after appearing a tad tentative in his first post-Maidana bouts, he looked more like the Ortiz of old.

"I don't really necessarily think that I was ever gone or that I came back, but I guess I thought different because a lot of the public said, 'Hey, you're back.' And I'm like, 'I've been back,' and they're like, 'No, you're different. You're like the old you.' I didn't really realize what they meant by that and then I went back and looked at old footage of myself, and I thought, 'Wow. OK.' There was a difference, definitely."

His usual smile fades a little. He will not, he insists, make the mistake of overlooking Peterson, but he is ready to return to the top.

"I'm ready to go. I don't know what people are expecting, but I know what I'm expecting. I'm ready."

 
Sports fans love a good tournament. It's why the playoffs in the major sports -- think March Madness -- draw the biggest television ratings and most publicity.

And that's one of the reasons Showtime has embraced the idea of tournaments in boxing. Showtime is headed into the semifinals of its groundbreaking, albeit sometimes troubled, Super Six World Boxing Classic, a round-robin tournament that began with six of the top super middleweights in the world.

That tournament was unveiled to great fanfare in July 2009 and has produced drama and several good fights, even if it has had its share of problems, including its drawn-out length, various injuries and postponements and three of the original participants dropping out.

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However, Showtime didn't give up on the tournament concept and Saturday night (9 ET/PT) launches a more streamlined and simpler format with the semifinals of its four-man "Winner Takes All" tournament in the exciting bantamweight division at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma, Wash.

The fighters involved -- titleholder Yonnhy Perez, former titleholder Joseph "King Kong" Agbeko, Abner Mares and former junior bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan -- are all evenly matched and have a history of making exciting fights, sometimes against each other.

Colombia's Perez defends his belt in a rematch with Ghana's Agbeko (27-2, 22 KOs) in the main event with Australia's Darchinyan (35-2-1, 27 KOs) facing Mexican-born, Los Angeles-based Mares (20-0-1, 13 KOs) in the opener.

The winners will meet in the first half of 2011 in the final with the losers also due to meet in a consolation fight on the undercard. In the event of a draw in either semifinal, the participants in the final are at Showtime's discretion.

"I think we have four of the top 118-pounders in the world and I don't think there's a bad matchup in the bunch," Showtime boxing chief Ken Hershman said. "When we looked at the various configurations, we couldn't figure out where we wanted to go, and that to me is exactly what you want. You don't go into the fight knowing who's going to win, who's not going to win."

Like he did in the Super Six, Hershman was able to get multiple promoters to work together, in this case Gary Shaw (Darchinyan and co-promoter of Perez), Golden Boy (Mares), Don King (Agbeko) and Thompson Boxing (co-promoter of Perez).

"I believe the sport of boxing is a tremendous sport by itself, but I think when you overlay tournament-style rules to this sport it becomes that much more thrilling," Hershman said. "Obviously, for our subscribers, keeping it new, keeping it fresh is what we're after. I want to thank the promoters. This was really a very cooperative effort.''

Said Perez, "For Showtime to get all these promoters together is great because you don't have to get fights. It's set. Whoever wins goes on. Whoever loses, there is still a fight. My goal is to win it all. I'm very happy about the tournament."

All four are happy about it. For them, it is an opportunity raise their profiles in a weight class that is often overlooked, even though it is loaded with talent and crowd-pleasers.

"The four-man tournament is great," said Mares, who fought to a draw in a title bout with Perez in May and hopes to meet him in a rematch in the final. "Tournament boxing is great. It helps not only fighters but boxing, because in this tournament you have four of the best fighters facing each other. There's no ducking any fighters here. You're fighting the best, no matter what. You don't pick fighters in a tournament, and this is what people want, and I want that. I am here for the fans.

"I want to take the time to thank Showtime for putting this show together and not forgetting about the little guys because there are a lot of people that don't even look at the little guys. It's a great opportunity for all four of us. It's tremendous for the weight class and I love it."

In the fight before Perez drew with Mares, he won his belt in a rock 'em, sock 'em slugfest against Agbeko in October 2009.

Agbeko, who was knocked down in the 10th round, is Perez's mandatory challenger and looking for revenge. He has blamed an accidental head butt for taking him out of his game.

"I was the champion, and I lost it to Yonnhy Perez, and I have really been working hard for this fight," said Agbeko, who lives in the Bronx, N.Y. "It is the fight of my life, the fight of my career. I have to win this fight to become a champion again. I believe I am going to win this fight. Everything was going well in the last fight, but because of the head butt I lost."

Perez, naturally, figures he will repeat the victory.

"I know this is going to be a great war just like the first one was," said Perez, who is based in Santa Fe Springs, Calif. "I know how good of a fighter Agbeko is. I saw and felt him in the ring. I know he is prepared technically and he will try to take the belt, but I have prepared myself to keep the belt. No one will take it away from me."

On the other side of the bracket, Darchinyan, a 34-year-old brute slugger, faces Mares, who is nine years his junior and a more classical boxer-puncher.

"Vic has proven that he is a power puncher and strong fighter," Mares said. "I think speed is my advantage. I am ready for a slugfest or boxing match. I have trained really hard, and this is going to be a great fight."

Darchinyan, also a former flyweight titleholder, showed tremendous power in the 112- and 115-pound weight classes. At 115, he unified three of the major titles as he scored consecutive knockouts over highly regarded Dmitry Kirilov, Cristian Mijares and Jorge Arce in 2008 and 2009.

But then Darchinyan took a shot at a bantamweight belt and challenged Agbeko, who outpointed him in a close unanimous decision in July 2009.

Darchinyan returned to junior bantamweight to score a massive knockout of Tomas Rojas in the second round and then easily outpointed Rodrigo Guerrero in his final title defense before moving back up to bantamweight to stay.

He went the distance at bantamweight in his last fight, taking a lopsided decision against Eric Barcelona. Darchinyan said he has learned from his past showing at bantamweight against Agbeko -- whom he'd like to fight again in the final -- and is quite comfortable at 118 pounds.

"Absolutely," Darchinyan said. "When I fought [Agbeko], he didn't overpower me -- he just moved too much and head-butted me too much. There was really only a one-point difference in the scorecard. [The loss] was not because of weight. I fought too much and went for the knockout and didn't control myself. I'm more controlled now and ready for Mares."

Darchinyan, always an all-star trash talker, is predicting a knockout.

"My game plan is to be fast and powerful," Darchinyan said. "I've fought in 14 world title fights; he's fought in one. I'm going to out-school him badly and prove to the whole world that I'm too good for him and anyone in this division."

That's the beauty of a tournament. Each man has the opportunity to prove just that.
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I'm curious to see what Peterson can do against Ortiz. What are you guys thinking about the Pascal-BHop fight? Not too much coverage on it.
 
as bad as I want BHop to retire,Im thinkin he might actually win this fight ...

IMO Chad Dawson did everything but put a bow and ribbon on that Loss to Pascal.
 
Same here, I want him just to hang em up but I think he wins this one and wins by a good margin too.

Dawson/Cloud supposed to be set up for the 1st half of next year.

I wanna know who is picking Amir.

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Same here, I want him just to hang em up but I think he wins this one and wins by a good margin too.

Dawson/Cloud supposed to be set up for the 1st half of next year.

I wanna know who is picking Amir.

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Cloud is going to KO that scrub Dawson .
 
I'm thinking that BHop is going to win as well Pascal isn't a top level fighter IMO. Dawson gave him a victory and tried to rally late.
 
LAS VEGAS -- Looking back, maybe it really was a blessing in disguise. At least that's how junior welterweight titlist Amir Khan views his stunning first-round knockout loss to Breidis Prescott a little more than two years ago.

That shocking loss is now well behind him and Khan has elevated his game significantly since. He believes it is in part because the defeat taught him a lesson.

But on that night in September 2009, in front of his hometown crowd in England, Khan, then a lightweight, was crushed by the unheralded Prescott. Khan was done in a violent and devastating 54 seconds after being hammered to the canvas twice.

It was a shock of shocks.

Khan had been a silver medalist in the 2004 Olympics at age 17, had moved quickly up the ranks as a professional and named 2007 ESPN.com prospect of the year. A loss at that stage of his career was practically inconceivable, but suddenly it was in tatters.

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Khan, however, picked himself up, dusted himself off and has come back as strong as possible.

He hooked up with renowned trainer Freddie Roach two fights later, has won five fights in a row (three by knockout) since the loss -- all in dominant fashion -- and won a 140-pound world title.

"I've come along a lot," said Khan, who turned 24 on Wednesday. "I think that defeat was probably what helped me to get so far in my career. Maybe I wouldn't be fighting here if I didn't lose that fight. The defeat gave me a wake-up call because my training was different and the focus wasn't there, whereas now, I'm totally isolated when I go to training camp. I'm 100 percent focused.

"I listen to instructions and listen to my trainer. I train a lot harder. That [loss] was a blessing in disguise. If that didn't happen, like I said, I don't think I'd be in this position now."

The position Khan (23-1, 17 KOs) is in now is as a world titleholder, one of the most significant fighters in boxing and just days away from a serious confrontation with Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KOs), the hard-punching interim titleholder from Argentina. They meet in a much-anticipated fight at Mandalay Bay in the final "World Championship Boxing" card of the year on Saturday (HBO, 9:30 p.m. ET).

Opening the telecast in another meaningful junior welterweight fight are contenders Lamont Peterson (28-1, 14 KOs) and Victor Ortiz (28-2-1, 22 KOs), who meet in a scheduled 10-rounder with a possible shot at the winner of the main event at stake.

Besides physical maturity, the realization that he was better suited to fight at junior welterweight than lightweight and the change of trainers, Khan's rebound from such a surprising knockout loss can be attributed to his mental outlook.

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AP Photo/Jon SuperAmir Khan learned from KO loss to Breidis Prescott.

"Mentally you look back at your previous fights and the mistakes you made in those fights. You don't want to make those mistakes again," Khan said. "That's what drives me. That's what keeps me focused and keeps me on the edge because we know in boxing things can go wrong and one punch can change a fight. We don't want that to happen again, so we're 100 percent focused and more professional."

Part of that professionalism was going to work with Roach. Not only did Khan seek him out, but he showed the maturity to leave England behind and relocate to Southern California so he could train at Roach's Wild Card Gym in Hollywood, Calif., when preparing for fights.

Khan has also had no issue traveling wherever he had to go to train with Roach, whose schedule can be hectic.

That's because Roach, of course, also trains pound-for-pound king Manny Pacquiao. So when Pacquiao was preparing to fight Antonio Margarito in November, the two training camps overlapped.

What did Khan do? The young fighter packed his bags for Pacquiao's camp in the Philippines to join Roach.

When Pacquiao returned to Wild Card, Khan was with him. And when the crew left for Dallas for the fight, Khan spent the week there working with Roach before returning to California to finish training for Maidana.

It has been a whirlwind couple of months of travel for Khan. Most fighters simply hunker down in one spot for the duration of training. Instead, Khan found himself flying from England to Los Angeles, then to the Philippines, back to Los Angeles, on to Dallas, back to Los Angeles and then to Las Vegas.

Khan, with his youthful exuberance, said it was no big deal.

"Yes, I've done a lot of traveling, but I think it's been a good thing because I've kind of enjoyed it because you don't get bored in one place," he said. "You see the same faces, normally you get in the same ring every time and same sparring partners. This time it's been different because when I was in Dallas, we had new sparring partners down there. It was a different gym. New faces to see. Then, when I was in Baguio [in the Philippines], that was totally different. Training in high altitude, that was different and also training alongside Manny Pacquiao. It doesn't seem like I've been traveling and I don't feel tired from it."

Said Roach, "The travel was a little bit hectic at times, and we get a little tired at times and so forth, but Amir is a traveler. He's young. He never complained once. I take my hat off to him. He did a great job.

"Everything's really gone smoothly. We're ready for the fight. We know Maidana's a good right-hand puncher. He has knockout power. We do respect that, but we're ready for what he has."

Roach can be a harsh critic but with Khan, he has liked what he has seen since their first fight together, a dominant five-round technical decision against faded all-time great Marco Antonio Barrera in March 2009.

"He knows how to set things up now," Roach said. "He just doesn't go in there and look for a one-punch knockout. He knows how to break a person down and he knows how to work behind his jab. He's just become a completely different fighter. We haven't lost a round since we've been together. I mean, we haven't lost one round."

Roach looks to Khan's fight with Andriy Kotelnik, from whom he won his belt in July 2009. Khan won virtually every round in the blowout decision. Maidana's only loss was a tight split decision to Kotelnik in a title fight.

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AP Photo/Bill KostrounA win over Paulie Malignaggi, right, helped set up Amir Khan's fight with Marcos Maidana.

"The Kotelnik fight, I feel that was a great fight for us because we beat this guy for every round," Roach said. "So I think there are some very good comparisons in the Maidana fought him to when we fought him. We dominated him every round. I feel that we'll do that in this fight too. I don't see us losing a round here either."

One of the reasons for Khan's supreme confidence is because he trained alongside Pacquiao. This is the second camp they've worked together. They've gotten to know each other and sparred.

While Pacquiao was training for Margarito and Khan was getting ready for Maidana, they sparred about 20 rounds against each other. There's nothing like learning from the best.

"It was just good to spar with him, to share the same ring as him," Khan said. "For confidence, I think it's brilliant because we all know that Manny's the best fighter in the world pound-for-pound. I think if you can do really well against him, then I'm sure you'll do well against anybody. If you can catch Manny, then I'm sure that someone like Maidana is going to be a lot easier to catch. Manny's got great footwork and great speed. We had some great rounds."

Roach said Khan handled himself well against Pacquiao. There were some rounds in which Roach said Khan even got the better of the pound-for-pound king.

"It's explosive," he said of watching them spar. "It's like a *$$* fight. One day they both step it up. The thing is, I believe in good work. It's just when you're sharp, you're sharp. He helped Manny get sharp for his fight and brought his speed back up to the level I wanted it at and Manny helped Amir with just a being sharp, all-around fighter. It was great work for him. Getting in there against the best and doing very well with him is always a great confidence builder also."

Khan has grown to look up to Pacquiao after spending so much time with him the past two years. He hopes his career plays out like his.

"We all fight for the purses and I want to walk out of this game financially comfortable, but when people ask me a question -- 'Do you want to walk out of this game filthy rich or walk out of this game having a legacy?' -- I want the legacy and to be known as a champion like Manny Pacquiao. Manny's a great role model to look up to and to train with him makes me more hungry. Manny is on top of the world. He makes the biggest purses in the world, but still he's very humble and he still loves boxing, and keeps on fighting and fighting. And I want to follow his footsteps."

Beating Maidana, 27, who owns a TKO win against Ortiz in his coming out fight 18 months ago, would be good start.

There was a time when some accused Khan of trying to avoid Maidana, perhaps because he is a big puncher and Khan did not fare well against the heavy-handed Prescott.

Khan said he never tried to avoid Maidana. Rather, he was being a good businessman. Instead of facing Maidana in May, like so many hoped, he instead made his American debut against former titleholder Paulie Malignaggi instead.

Khan looked sensational stopping Malignaggi in the 11th round. The performance made the inevitable showdown with Maidana a bigger fight.

In other words, just as Khan had planned.

"Sometimes you have to look at the options," Khan said. "When the Malignaggi option came, I knew six months down the line, or maybe nine months down the line, the fight with Maidana would be a bigger fight, so why fight him early and beat him and you miss that bigger purse in the future?"

Khan's Nevada contract calls for $975,000, but he will make considerably more once the British pay-per-view is taken into account. Maidana will make a career-high $550,000.

"This is a fight we both wanted. A lot of people think I was avoiding him. But financially the fight was not making sense," Khan said. "It was nowhere near what we're getting paid now. I said to Golden Boy, 'I think the fight's worth more.' I got a bigger purse fighting Malignaggi, so I took that. Boxing is a business at the end of the day, and I knew down the line the fight against Maidana was going to get bigger. And look: Six months down the line it's a bigger fight."

And with a victory, Khan can push his star even higher and put that night against Prescott further into the rearview mirror.

"Since I was a young kid, I wanted to be the best in the world, and I've been following that path. These are the fights that are going to make me an even better fighter," he said. "I'm in a division where you have the likes of Victor Ortiz, [Devon] Alexander, [Timothy] Bradley, myself, Maidana, and it's a division everyone is focusing on. And I think in the next 12 months, I will be on top of the division."
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Honestly Khan should beat Maidana by Uni Dec. His Length and Hand speed and good jab is going to give Maidana fits . Some of us saw Maidana- Corley and Corley gave him a ton of trouble . I beleive Khan stays on the outside and Boxes his way to a win . But there is alway that thing in the back of your mind that doubts his chin and one shot could end it as long as he doenst get into a brawl he wins .
Ortiz vs Peterson Im taking Peterson he may not have the most power but he is a pretty smart fighter with a good skillset to keep Ortiz honest plus hes from DC lol so ain aint picking against him

SHO has a great card though should be all action with fights that can go either way but I believe Vic has been a bit exposed but he still has the power to change the fight . Agbeko - Perez is a should be a good one i dont know if Agbeko has lost a step but this one should be close if not controversial .

Uh Oh its that time again we have another one of those Colombian Power punchers on the scene in Darley Perez seems every 3-4 yrs one of these guys show up with a bunch of KO's and they all turn out the same way once they hit the big stage . Who was it that was NT's Colombian Boxer supporter TheProfessor ? LOL
 
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yea my dude Amo was all about those Urango hooks and uppercuts.

I'm thinking Maidana by mid round KO, Ortiz UD, Mares TKO and Agbeko SD. If I could bet on it, I'd bet hard that if Vic and Agbeko both lose that Vic will not want to face King Kong again in the consolation fight.
 
two nights ago, I had a dream Maidana hit Khan with an overhand right that had him sitting on the ropes at the end of the 1st, and then he gets the KO after two mroe hard right hands at the very beginning of the 2nd round.

I didnt put any cash on it cus Im not a guy who bets boxing but if this dream comes true , I will be so upset at myself for not putting a large amount of $ on it
 
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