Khan: My main priority is Mayweather, then Pacquiao

By Boxing News - 01/26/2015 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: Despite having already been told by Floyd Mayweather Jr in clear language that he doesn’t have the name recognition in the U.S to be worth fighting, Amir Khan is still holding out hopes that he’ll be the one that Mayweather winds up facing next on May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Khan, 28, is still waiting for that call from Mayweather’s management that he has the fight against him. What’s funny about this is that Khan set a deadline of January 15th earlier this month for Mayweather to make his decision to fight him or not, and when the deadline passed without Mayweather saying he’d give him the fight, Khan was supposedly supposed to start looking at other options for his next fight.

Yet here Khan is still flapping his gums about wanting the Mayweather fight next instead of moving on and looking at other options. When you see this kind of stuff, it just makes you wonder why Khan even bothered with all this posturing about a deadline for Mayweather.

It makes it transparently clear that Khan’s deadline was just one big bluff job to try and scare Mayweather into the fight.

“My main priority is to fight Floyd Mayweather. Now if he doesn’t take it, then Manny Pacquiao is something that I would look at,” Khan said via Fighthype.com. “There’s nothing standing in the way of making this [Pacquiao] fight happen. I mean, this fight is going to happen basically if both parties have agreed to it. Now it’s all about just sitting down and maybe letting my lawyer take over now.”

There is one thing that potentially is standing in the way of Khan getting a fight against Pacquiao and that’s Mayweather. I hope Khan hasn’t forgotten about the fact that Mayweather is in negotiations with the Filipino star at this time, and that there’s a good chance that they wind up facing each other next.

Khan should be looking seriously about a plan C option right now because I doubt he’ll get either Mayweather or Pacquiao to fight next. If Khan isn’t interested in fighting dangerous welterweights, then he needs to look for someone like Victor Ortiz, Andre Berto or Antonin Decarie.

Those guys are pretty much similar to the fighters that Khan has been facing since he was knocked out by Danny Garcia in 2012. I mean, I don’t see them being big names to increase Khan’s popularity in the U.S, but at least he won’t get knocked out again if he fights them instead of some of the younger, more powerful welterweights in the division.



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