By William Mackay: According to Dan Rafael, Richard Schaefer of Golden Boy Promotions, says that Khan will likely be fighting on July 7th, very probably against WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia in a fight that will be televised on HBO.

The fight may or may not be a unification match depending on if the International Boxing Federation (IBF) or the World Boxing Association (WBA) strip Lamont Peterson of one or both of his titles for him testing positive for synthetic testosterone.

Khan wants one more fight at 140 before moving up to 147 to seek out bigger fights against the likes of Floyd Mayweather Jr. That likely be a pipe dream of Khan’s that will never be fulfilled, especially if shoves, pulls down on Garcia’s head and runs all night long and gets away with it by not being penalized. Mayweather wants to fight someone that comes to fight and doesn’t run like Khan. He said previously that he thought Khan should have been disqualified for the way he fought against Peterson last December.

I can’t see Khan changing the way he fights, so I expect him to be on permanent ignore by Mayweather even if Khan moves up in weight. He’ll find that there’s no one really to fight at 147 other than Mike Jones, Victor Ortiz, Shane Mosley and Andre Berto. Khan won’t fight Manny Pacquiao, so that pretty much limits the kind of money he’ll make. Unless Khan can become a star in one of HBO’s 24/7 series like Mayweather did, I can’t see Khan becoming a mega star in the future. He’s been beaten too many times, and his running, shoving and pulling down on the head style of fighting simply isn’t good television in my view.

Garcia was recently exposed by a way past his best Erik Morales last March. Garcia got the win but suffered a broken nose, and looked incredibly beatable. An in shape Morales would have given Garcia tons of problems, and fighters like Marcos Maidana, Lucas Matthyse and Ajose Olusegun would have beaten him. It goes without saying that Tim Bradley would easily school Garcia.

It doesn’t make sense for Khan to fight Garcia now, because there’s no gain in beating the guy because of how awful he looked last time he fought. If Khan is serious about wanting to fight at 147, he needs to cut his losses already and move up in weight. He was already beaten by Peterson at 140, and there’s no changing any of that. It happened and Peterson created the blue print in how to beat Khan by pressuring him and fighting on the inside where Khan has no skills whatsoever.