By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) has a lot of ideas for his future beyond his next fight in April, which will likely be against Paul McCloskey, a fighter that is basically no threat to Khan’s weak chin.

After that, Khan says he wants to unify the light welterweight titles by facing the winner of the light welterweight championship bout between Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander. Khan then wants to face Floyd Mayweather Jr. next year, and then move up to junior middleweight to finish up his career at that weight.

Khan’s vision of the future seems almost dream-like, something you would see in a fairy tale because all of it is so farfetched and unbelievable given how poor Khan fought in his fight with Marcos Maidana last December. Khan ran from Maidana for nine rounds, then got caught in the 10th round and was badly hurt.

Khan then spent the remainder of the fight holding onto either Maidana’s right arm and leaning on his neck, and sometimes shoving him hard, all without being penalized. The referee often broke Khan and Maidana just when Khan was getting pulverized by Maidana on the inside. In other words, I saw nothing in Khan’s performance in the Maidana fight that would suggest that he has the ability to beat the winner of the Bradley-Alexander fight and no way do I see Khan getting a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr.

And, if Khan did get a fight with Mayweather, he would have zero chance of beating Mayweather. Come on, running around the ring for 12 rounds and every once in a while throwing a handful of weak shots won’t get the job done against Mayweather. Heck, it wasn’t getting the job done against Maidana. He walked through Khan’s weak shots and was hurting him with shots.

Speaking to the dailymail.co.uk, Khan said “First comes the fight in April, then the unification of the light-welterweight division in the summer and then, hopefully, a move up to welterweight with the fight against Mayweather taking place next year. I want to be ready for him and that means another 12-15 months of development. After I’ve beaten Mayweather and defended my welterweight crown a few times, there would be just one final goal to achieve — to become world light-middleweight champion.”

This is nothing but dreams, pure dreams on Khan’s part. This is what I see happening with Khan: He faces the soft touch McCloskey in his next fight in April, and of course beats the guy because he’s domestic fighter and totally unproven at the world level.

A cocky Khan will then face the winner of the Bradley vs. Alexander fight later on this year, and suffer a horrible knockout loss. Khan will then try, without success, to get a fight with Mayweather. When the fight doesn’t happen, Khan will pick out a domestic fighter like John Murray or Kevin Mitchell to try and get his confidence back. Khan will beat those guys, and then step up and face someone like Lamont Peterson, and get knocked out again. Khan will then try to get Mayweather to fight him once more. Of course, Mayweather will say no and Khan will go back to fighting domestic fighters. The process will repeat itself over and over again until Khan retires. There won’t be any fights at junior middleweight, because Khan will be weeded out long before then at light welterweight.