By Sean McDaniel: Former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan is going to be putting off his move to the welterweight division in order to concentrate at succeeding at 140 and avenging his defeat to WBC light welterweight Danny Garcia. For his next bout, Khan will be fighting in the UK against an opponent still to be determined. It won’t be Garcia, but we could see Khan in with someone like Kell Brook possibly.

Khan said to Radio 5 Live “We’ve just got to go back to the drawing board, sit down with the team and see where we go from there. I’m going to give my body a little bit of a break now, spend time with my family…The next fight will be in England.”

It’s a good idea that Khan takes a break from boxing for a little while to let both his body and his brain heal up from the affects of him being knocked out in the 4th round by Garcia last Saturday. Khan took a lot of hard head shots in that fight in a short period of time. He needs to make sure he takes enough time off for his brain to recover from the trauma it suffered. The last thing that Khan needs is to jump back in the ring in three to four months and get knocked out again.

A Khan-Garcia rematch should really wait until late 2013 just to be safe for Khan. He needs to get in one or two easy fights, and work on his game so that he doesn’t make the same mistakes that he did last Saturday. Ideally, Khan needs to start listening to his trainer Freddie Roach and do what he tells him to do. Khan seems to only partially follow what Roach is telling him to do at times, and that’s not going to work well for Khan if he continues to do this in the future.