Khan: Mayweather-Pacquiao fight will NEVER happen!

By Boxing News - 02/03/2015 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan is one of the many fighters who are hoping to hit the lottery jackpot by having one of the superstars Floyd Mayweather Jr or Manny Pacquiao to agree to fight him next in May if the two are unable to come to terms for their fight on May 2nd.

While Khan recently set a very odd deadline last month for Mayweather to agree to fight him or he’s moving on, Khan is still waiting and hoping that he can get him to agree to face him next in May.

As for the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, Khan doesn’t see it as a fight that has any real chance of taking place. Khan thinks the combination of boxing politics and the two different promotional teams will ultimately get in the way of the fight getting made between these two very different guys.

Of course, you have to take whatever Khan says with a grain of salt, given that he stands to gain potentially a heck of a lot if the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight doesn’t get made. If Khan can get a fight against either of these two guys, it won’t really matter if Khan is knocked silly or beaten by a wide points decision, the money will be so good that it would cushion the blow.

Khan could also do what he did in his loss to Lamont Peterson by saying for months afterwards that he should have won the fight. In other words, Khan could ignore the judges that give the fight to Mayweather or Pacquiao, and simply say that he won. We saw that loud and clear with Khan failing to admit that he was beaten by the better fighter in Peterson.

“I can’t really see that fight from happening, there is too much politics with that fight,” Khan said to BT Sport. “There’s different promotions teams and different management teams – I don’t think they will let that fight happen. I want either one of those guys. It’s taken so long that I can’t see it happening.”

I really hate to say this but I don’t see Khan getting the fight against Mayweather. I mean, Khan can yap all he wants, but at the end of the way, I don’t see Mayweather wanting to fight someone who the American casual boxing fans can’t recognize and don’t care about.

To be sure, hardcore fans in the United States know fully well who the 28-year-old Khan is, but not the casual fans that have scant knowledge about the sport. The casual fans know about Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr, and that’s pretty much it in the U.S. I mean, some might know who Gennady Golovkin is, but someone like Khan is probably not recognizable to many fans.

Further, Khan’s style of fighting is purely defensive with him holding, grabbing, shoving, pulling down on the neck, and holding and hitting, is probably not the kind of style that Mayweather wants to fight at this stage in his career.

Mayweather likely prefers guys who are less MMA type and more of a professional boxer. Mayweather just finished two fights with a guy in Marcos Maidana who had a rough MMA type fighting style, and I don’t think Mayweather wants to keep fighting guys that deviate away from boxing into Mixed Martial Arts type of fighting.

Mayweather already beat a grabber in Ricky Hatton back in 2007, and I think Mayweather has been there and done that now. He doesn’t need another wrestler at this stage in his career.

“If that fight falls through, I think I have to be the next fighter to face Mayweather because I’ve proven myself in many ways,” Khan said via Skysports.com.



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