By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) has a fight coming up next month against IBF light welterweight champion Zab Judah on July 23 that might prove to too much for the young Khan. But instead of focusing completely on the Judah fight and hoping somehow he can get out of that fight without getting knocked cold by one of Judah’s hard shots, Khan is already eying the September bout between unbeaten Floyd Mayweather Jr. and WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz.

Khan wants to fight the winner of that fight next year in the UK. To be sure, if Ortiz emerges as the winner of Mayweather-Ortiz fight, he would jump at the chance to fight Khan, because it’s a fight that you would have to put in the favor of the bigger, stronger and arguably sturdier Ortiz. Khan, even if you packed some pounds on him with the help of his trusty trainer Alex Ariza, he’d still be a vulnerable because of his weak chin. Packing a bunch a muscle on Khan would be the equivalent of putting a Porsche engine on a skateboard. Sure, Khan would weigh in at 147 and might be teeny bit stronger, but the chin would still be his weak point.

In an article at the BBC.co.uk, Khan said “I’d like to fight the winner of Ortiz Mayweather maybe next year. That could be a good fight for me in the UK where we haven’t had a big fight like that in a long time.”

I don’t think Mayweather would be interested. If he’s going to fight anyone next year it’s going to be Manny Pacquiao for huge money, not Khan for the smaller change. Khan is still an unknown in the United States and hasn’t helped himself by wasting fights against Paul McCloskey and Paulie Malignaggi instead of taking on the likes of Timothy Bradley, when he was interested, Lucas Matthysse and Devon Alexander. Those are the guys Khan would have been fighting a long time ago to become more popular in the U.S., not Malignaggi and McCloskey. Those fights reek of cherry picking by Khan. And he expects Mayweather to want to fight him next year in the UK? Why? I think Khan needs to pray he doesn’t get knocked out by Judah.