By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan (28-3, 18 KO’s) unleashed the dogs of war on Friday in saying he’ll KO former three-time world champion Adrien Broner if he wants to face him. Khan says he’s open to the Broner fight because he sees it as one of the big ones that will get him a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. Khan also sad in an interview on Thursday that he’s open to fighting on Mayweather’s undercard, even though he has his own contract with Showtime and doesn’t need to fight on Mayweather’s undercard.
Obviously, Khan would would see fighting on Mayweather’s undercard as a straight path to getting a fight against him either at the end of this year or early 2015.
“Fighting [Kell] Brook wont get me the Floyd fight,” Khan said on his twitter. “Fighting Broner Guerrero Alexander Porter will #WorldLevel. So many names call me out, when it’s time to sign they not to be seen. If @AdrienBroner wants it let’s do it. Maidana knocked him down twice. I’ll knock him out!”
I think all those sparring sessions that Khan has had recently with Alfredo Angulo – and supposedly Andre Ward – has knocked some ideas into Khan’s head, because he now thinks he can knockout on Broner. I hope Angulo wasn’t taking it easy on Khan during the sparring sessions on purpose in order not to hurt him, because Khan is sounding way too confidence given how poor he’s looked in his last four fights.
Broner didn’t fire back at Khan on twitter despite Khan having sent his comment straight to Broner. I wonder what’s up with that? I hope Broner’s recent loss to Marcos Maidana did’t kill his confidence because this isn’t like Broner. In the past when someone trash talked him, Broner would flying back with something, but in this case he let Khan’s comment slide without saying anything about it. I guess Broner isn’t too interested in fighting Khan. I don’t blame him though. Broner want to fight Maidana next so that he can avenge his loss against him. Fighting Khan would Khan would only complicate matters by putting Broner in a situation where he would need to fight his way to his rematch against Maidana instead of calmly waiting for it to happen. Broner has a rematch clause in his contract with Maidana, so he doesn’t need to life a finger to get a fight against him.
As for Khan fighting Brook, Khan doesn’t seem too keen on fighting Brook for some reason. Khan says his team hasn’t received the huge $8 million offer that Brook’s promoter Eddie Hearn was talking about, and he sees it as a case of them trying to get free publicity by mentioning his name.
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