By William Mackay: Sometimes you can predict future behavior by looking into the past. In the case of WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (23-1, 17 KO’s) you have to wonder whether he’ll seek to fight a rematch with World Boxing Association (WBA) light welterweight interim champion Marcos Maidana (29-1, 27 KO’s) if the Argentinian knocks him out on December 11th.
Normally, this would be a pretty obvious thing, as many fighters would attempt to get a rematch so that they could clear the loss in a way by trying to avenge the defeat. However, with Khan, that may not be the case. Khan was beaten by Breidis Prescott in a 1st round TKO loss in September 2008. Rather than fighting Prescott again to show the boxing world that the loss was just a fluke, Khan instead moved on as if he hadn’t been defeated and took on Oisin Fagan, Marco Antonio Barrera, Andriy Kotelnik, Dmitriy Salita and Paulie Malignaggi.
For his part, Prescott was defeated by Miguel Vazquez and Kevin Mitchell. Because of those losses, Khan rationalizes that there’s no point in fighting Prescott because he has since been beaten. It’s a convenient excuse, but what can you say? Prescott has been beaten twice in the past year and that gives Khan a reason not to fight Prescott again.
Well, if Maidana ends up destroying Khan in one or two rounds, and then in turn follows that victory with a defeat at the hands of Devon Alexander or Timothy Bradley, will Khan then use that as an excuse not to fight Maidana? I hope not, because Maidana doesn’t have the best of boxing skills and he’s eventually going to get beaten again sooner or later.
If Khan doesn’t want to fight him again if he gets destroyed, then what can Maidana do other than to try and get fights with guys that actually want to fight him. Khan could then spend a couple of year fighting on the local scene to try and fight his way back up the ranks.
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