Khan complaining about difficulty finding opponent for April

By Boxing News - 02/19/2013 - Comments

khan5By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (27-3, 19 KO’s) still doesn’t have an opponent for his April fight date, and it’s not looking good right now that he’s going to be able to find anyone halfway decent that Showtime will agree to.

Khan said on his twitter “[Vyacheslav] Senchenko, [Juan Manuel] Marquez, [Humberto] Soto, [Josesito] Lopez, [Timothy] Bradley, [Jessie] Vargas all said no due to weight issues or they just didn’t want to fight and get back to us.”

Khan wants to fight a well-known fighter for his next bout, but he’s been picking welterweights and he wants them to boil down to at or near 140 in order to fight them. These guys don’t want to have to drain themselves just to fight Khan.

If Khan is going to be selecting welterweights then he’s going to have to step up and fight them at the weight that they’re fighting at instead of trying to get them melt down.

This isn’t good news if Khan fan because most of those guys would have been good opponents for him. I mean, I’m not high on Senchenko or Soto, but Bradley, Vargas and Marquez would have been great.

I’d like to see Khan fight Ajose Olusegun (30-1, 14 KO’s). He reportedly is interested in facing Khan, and he fights in the light welterweight division, so he wouldn’t have to drain down in order to make the fight. If you saw Olusegun’s fight against Lucas Matthysse last September, it was a war for 9 rounds until Matthysse took him out in the 10th. That was a really, really hard fight for Matthysse.

I can’t see Khan being able to take the kinds of shots that Matthysse was taking from Olusegun. He was tagging Matthysse with a lot of hard shots in every round, and that was one of Matthysse’s hardest fights of his career. Would Khan fight Olusegun? I doubt it, but he should because the guy is ranked high at 140 at #4 WBC, and he wants to fight Khan.



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