By William Mackay: WBA light welterweight champion Marcos Maidana reacted angrily to Amir Khan’s twitter remarks today about Maidana having possibly payed Robert Guerrero a step aside fee to get him out of their scheduled August 27th fight in San Jose, California. Guerrero hurt his left shoulder in training, but Khan doubts the authenticity of the injury. Maidana said this on his twitter about Khan’s remark:

“Look he [Khan] got out of his cave. Amir Con says I paid Guerrero money to step aside. What a liar Amir Con is! You’re the one paying around to avoid fighting me. You know it put in writing to the WBA. Amir queen Con I wait for you. I’d fight you tomorrow at your backyard. Stop running.”

I hope Maidana doesn’t hold his breath waiting for Khan to accept that offer, because isn’t even slightly interested in facing Maidana again. Instead of facing the much more dangerous Maidana, who almost knocked Khan out in their fight in December, Khan is hoping to fight Erik Morales, the fighter that Maidana just beat last April.

Khan supposedly is interested in fighting the winner of the September 17th fight between Morales and Lucas Matthysse, but I doubt he’ll fight the hard hitting Matthysse if he wins. That would be like taking on slightly weaker version of Maidana. I can’t see that happening in this lifetime, not with a weak puncher like Lamont Peterson, Khan’s IBF light welterweight mandatory challenger, waiting to get a shot against him. This would give Khan an excuse to fight him rather than Matthysse.