By William Mackay: WBA Super World light welterweight champion Amir Khan apologized for his earlier claim that Robert Guerrero’s shoulder injury wasn’t real and that he had been paid a step aside fee by WBA light welterweight champ Marcos Maidana.

Khan reversed course in his twitter today, saying “Guys I was messing around about the injury of Guerrero. Apologies for the tweet. I’m sure he didn’t get paid step aside money…Let’s hope he recovers. Bet Maidana’s happy for not wanting to get beaten up.”

Maidana has already said he’s willing to fight Khan if he’s up to it. Khan says he has nothing to gain from fighting Maidana again after squeaking by with a 12 round decision last December in a fight that Khan took a ferocious beating in. A lot of boxing fans think Khan is flat out terrified of fighting Maidana again. These thoughts also echoed by Maidana.

It’s likely that Khan will never fight Maidana or his former conqueror Breidis Prescott again. Khan is looking to fight only one more time at 140, and is hoping to get a fight against Erik Morales if he beats Lucas Matthysse next month on September 17th.

As for Maidana, Golden Boy promotions is trying to find a last second opponent to save the August 27th date but things aren’t looking good at this time with only one week to go before the fight date.

Guerrero may have suffered a serious shoulder injury. It’s unclear whether he’ll need surgery or not to repair the damage done in a sparring session. If so, it could be awhile before we see Guerrero in the ring.