By Sean McDaniel: The failing negotiations between WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan and WBC/WBO champ Timothy Bradley are reportedly going nowhere due to Bradley not being interested in the $1.3 million that has been offered to him for the fight.

HBO has pushed for an extension until the middle of this week for the two fighters to try and come to terms for a July 23 fight, which HBO badly wants to show on their network. There is no word whether HBO will bump up Bradley’s pay any. If the fight doesn’t get put together, Khan will look to fight one of four possible opponents: Marcos Maidana, Zab Judah, Erik Morales or Robert Guerrero.

Maidana: Right off the bat you can pretty much dismiss a rematch with Maidana right away. Although that would be easily the best fight of the bunch by far, Khan’s promoters from Golden Boy likely won’t want to risk putting Khan back in there with Maidana because of how much punishment Khan absorbed in their fight last December. Khan barely won the fight and perhaps if not for a lot of breaks in the action by the referee while Khan was getting hammered by Maidana in the last three rounds, Khan might have been stopped in that fight.

Morales: Is probably a high choice for Khan because of how little power and speed Morales has at light welterweight. This is a fight that would be very similar to Khan’s fight against an aging Marco Antonio Barrera in 2009. Khan would have the size and speed advantage over Morales and wouldn’t have to worry nearly as much with his power compared to some of the other choices at light welterweight.

Guerrero: Not a likely pick for Khan. This would be a fight where Khan would be doing Guerrero a big favor by fighting him because he still doesn’t have a big name and a big fan base. Of course, neither does Khan in the United States. However, this would be about the equivalent of Khan’s last fight where he took on the obscure Paul McCloskey, thinking it would be a fight that interested fans. It didn’t.

Judah: This is probably a choice that Khan and Golden Boy are really looking at because it would give Khan a chance to pick up Judah’s IBF title and add it to Khan’s collection. Even if he never gets a chance to fight Bradley, Khan could – if he were to beat Judah – move up to the welterweight division having captured two of the four light welterweight titles. Then perhaps if Khan is careful and doesn’t knocked out by someone at welterweight he may be able to lure the smallish 5’6” Bradley up to welterweight to fight him if/when Khan picks up one of the paper titles against either Jan Zaveck or Vyacheslav Senchenko.

Bradley would be an ideal opponent for Khan because he’s not much of a puncher and a lot shorter than the 5’10” Khan. But if he’s not going to be paid well to risk his two titles then you can’t blame him for deciding not to take the risk. It’s obviously smarter to skip a Khan fight and continue to milk his title for decent money each time out rather than losing the titles and the perfect record against Khan.