By Sean McDaniel: WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan (24-1, 17 KO’s) doesn’t have a clue about why WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) thinks that he’s running from him. Bradley was recently interviewed and he said that he doesn’t want Khan to run from him.

Khan failed to understand what Bradley was talking about, because Khan is taking a tune-up fight on April 16th against Paul McCloskey and that fight date has been planned for some time already.

Speaking to clickliverpool.com, Khan said “I was shocked that he said I was running from him. I had a fight with [Marcos] Maidana and I knew he was fighting [Devon] Alexander. I never said once that I wouldn’t fight him. I was the one pushing this fight against Bradley, so how can he say that I’m scared of him? I want this fight to happen in the Summer, so he’d better be ready.”

Khan only has to get through the McCloskey fight, which shouldn’t be too much of a problem because McCloskey can’t really punch. Bradley will likely sit and wait until the summer without taking a tune-up bout before the fight with Khan.

Bradley is perhaps just hyping the Khan fight by making it seem as if Khan has been running from him, because that’s the only thing you can really think because Khan has never avoided Bradley. There was talk of Khan avoiding Breidis Prescott and Maidana, but Khan finally did fight and beat Maidana in December. Khan still isn’t fighting Prescott, but that’s another story.