McCloskey rejects offer, Khan will now be searching for another opponent
January 28th, 2011
By William Mackay: #6 ranked WBA contender Paul McCloskey (22-0, 8 KO’s) has rejected an offer that is reported to have been in the low six figures to face World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) on April 16th in the UK. Team Khan sent out a press release today, saying that McCloskey was offered three times what he usually gets for his fights but that McCloskey wanted five times what he normally gets.
If that’s what you want, then Khan needs to pay to get the guy in the ring. The other options are far more dangerous. Khan doesn’t seem to want anything to do with Maidana, Matthysse and Prescott for some reason. The other options for Khan are the slow and smaller John Murray, a Euro level fighter who has never fought a world class opponent before. There’s also #5 ranked Lamont Peterson, who is coming off a 10 round gift draw against Victor Ortiz. Peterson looked horrible in that fight and can’t punch his way out of a wet paper bag. However, I consider him a lot better than McCloskey, so I doubt he’ll get the fight with Khan. My guess is Murray will get selected because he’s short, slow and has never fought a world class fighter before.
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McCloskey is a very good undefeated fighter and deserves a split of around 70-30 in Khans favour. There’s having business sense and there’s being a greedy little c*nt and Khan is becoming the latter. He only holds the WBA title which is probably the lowest regarded of the four major world belts. He’s far from the superstar he believes he is and I for one am going off him for that reason. Credit for the Maidana fight though!
you people are so stupid. if mcloskey accepted this low pay he has to relinquish his euro title and forgoe any profits that can be made from defending this title. its got nothing to do with being scared its simple business sense. khan is a joke, thinking he can offer peanuts to fighters that he knows he can defeat. he cares not for other fighters in the slightest, a capitalising dog through and through.
Khan How about Maidana that is the fight that will make the most Money…………….Khan is all mouth and no balls
Khan beats Mayweather everynight in his dreams….
mccloskey must be the biggest idiot out there….. Ur gettin paid 3times more then ever b4…. Gettein 20% ppv sales when mccloskey has never been ppv, and the biggest prize the belt,, unless mccloskey wants 2 protect the 0 on hes record,, i think we all smell fear in mccloskeys camp… I bet there regreting it now….. And it doesnt matter what the champ makes…. You win the belt then you will do the same
Amir Khan why don’t you consider Ray Narh he is ready to face you any time any day any where. Forget about money for all he wants is just to kick your ass and take the title.
Khan is like haye..just wanting to fight bums so as to keep the belt….
Why so picky, Khan? Just choose any bum. There are plenty out there. You next assignment is a tune up fight anyway, so it really doesn’t matter who you fight. Just get it out of the way so we can see you fight the winner of Bradley-Alexander later this yr.
greedy greedy khan it takes two to make a fight, you cant offer a 90%-10% split, khans head has got bigger than the ring, if it wasn’t for his impressive display at the olympics he would be a little known about fighter, his arrogance is why so many want to see noodle legs knocked out again.
haha khan tried to blame maidana of wanting a lot of money but is funny how every opponent he wants to fight complains about the money he tried to paid..peterson got offer like a 15 85 purse hahaha really khan? who would take that
khan talking about floyd after that shambles of a fight with maidana. How dare. The guys ego is out of control and now hes trying to rip off the irish.
Why doesnt he fight kell brook? Thats a fight british boxing fans wanna see
Why are UK fighters so hard to deal with?
Well said Anonymous and very true.
This guy is a joke…. He doesnt want to fight and is making boxing look like a joke. As of right now, he is a B level fighter…. Why does he insist that he is a superstar…