By Scott Gilfoid: I guess we have good old HBO to thank for the July 23 Amir Khan vs. Zab Judah unification bout at the Mandalay By Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Golden Boy Promotions, the promoter for Khan, preferred matching Khan with fellow Golden Boy fighters Erik Morales or Robert Guerrero next. However, HBO wanted Khan-Judah instead for the fireworks and almost sure fire knockout the fight would produce.
I’m glad, because I didn’t want to see Khan face someone coming off a loss like Morales and I wasn’t interested in seeing Khan fight a lightweight in Guerrero, because he doesn’t have the pop in his punches that Judah does nor the speed either.
Judah’s promoter Kathy Duva doesn’t think Khan wanted the fight with Judah, saying in an article at northjersey.com, “I don’t think [Khan] wanted the fight. I know that HBO wanted the fight very much and they were putting a lot of pressure on [Khan].”
So there it is, folks. Khan didn’t want the Judah fight. Why do you think Khan wasn’t eager to fight Judah, eh? Why would Khan prefer someone else when Judah is the best fight out there? Could it be that Khan was afraid of the power that Judah brings to the table? Is that it? Well, Judah has the power to send Khan’s career back into the stone age if and when he lands one of his big left hand upper cuts. We could see Khan being knocked out and a setback like that could put Khan’s career in a two to three year holding pattern like the knockout loss to Khan suffered against Bredis Prescott did to him in 2008.
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