By William Mackay: Amir Khan badly wants to win the WBC light welterweight title off of champion Danny Garcia on Saturday night in their Las Vegas based fight on HBO television. Khan plans on moving up in weight soon after he captures the title, but he just wants the bragging rights of saying that he at one time or another held the IBF, WBA and WBC titles.

Khan said to Sky Sports News “I think it’s a good time to clean up the division and move up to welterweight because we’ve kind of won everything apart from the WBO, which Timothy Bradley wouldn’t fight me when he had it.”

Khan beat Andriy Kotelnik to capture the WBA title in 2009 and then defeated Zab Judah to win the IBF title last year. However, Khan hardly will have cleaned up the light welterweight division by beating Garcia. There’s still four fighters that Khan wouldn’t have beaten that are very serious threats to him and that’s Lucas Matthysse, Ajose Olusegun, Mike Alvarado and Juan Manuel Marquez. Obviously, Marquez isn’t going to waste time fighting Khan because there’s no real money in fighting him compared to Manny Pacquiao.

Khan isn’t a pay-per-view fighter in the United States and with his running and fouling fighting style, along with his periodic losses, I don’t think he’ll ever be a PPV star in the U.S. But Khan should still fight Mattysse, Olusegun and Alvarado before saying he’s cleaned out the division because beating these guys isn’t what I consider cleaning out the division: Paul McCloskey, Andriy Kotelnik, Zab Judah, Danny Garcia, Dmitriy Salita, Paulie Malignaggi, and Marcos Maidana.

Judah is over the hill, Salita had an inflated ranking, Kotelnik had no power, Maidana almost beat Khan and McCloskey arguably never deserved to be ranked in the top 15 in the first place. Khan could have fought Maidana or Breidis Prescott again, but chose McCloskey over them.

Khan is really asking for it if he moves up in weight to the welterweight division. Unless he’s going to be matched carefully avoiding big punchers, I believe he’s going to suffer some knockout losses.