All the boxes are checked – Face Off, 24/7, Greatest Hits – but interest is wholly wanting.
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“This is a tougher fight than against a Mayweather or Pacquiao because of the size difference but I love that sort of challenge – it’s why I’m in boxing”, he said. I’m concentrating 100 percent on Amir Khan.
And Sanchez has now also taken a swipe at De La Hoya. Who do you think wins Canelo-Khan?
Amir Khan enters this fight with a 31-3 record that includes 19 knockouts. The image of Khan in perimeter-hopping flight, eyes wide, tail high, pride low, endures and endures. With Canelo likely asking for parity in the revenue split, there’s not likely going to be enough money left over for Manny Pacquiao to make more than what he normally gets. Critics say Khan’s only chance to score the upset over Alvarez is for him to move in and out pretty quickly to score on points and he should be extra careful in the process to avoid Alvarez’s counter attacks.
When Canelo Alvarez and Amir Khan touch gloves for the first time on May 7 in their middleweight title bout at the brand-new T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Oscar De La Hoya, for one, hopes Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is sitting ringside.
Which mightn’t be amusing as it is were it not for the purists now propped high on their hindlegs by dudgeon for Canelo’s refusal to defend this august title above 155 pounds.
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The problem here is that Pacquiao has since retired following his April 9 fight with Timothy Bradley Jr. When you do that, sometimes you win and sometimes you lose, but you took the risk.
Young Mexican star Canelo was reintroduced to us, this time with the WBC middleweight world championship after his victory over Miguel Cotto.
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Khan is already talking rematch with Canelo. His media machine has been trying to talk Khan into a big fight for years now, and here he has to step up two weight classes to get it. He deserves credit for having balls, that is for sure. Or is the idea actually to harangue the welterweight champion of the world out of retirement?
