By William Mackay: While all WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan can talk about is a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr for 2012, Mayweather has different ideas and is now questioning whether Khan is a big enough draw for him to waste time fighting. This comes after Khan’s somewhat disappointing attendance numbers against the aging Zab Judah.
Khan won the fight by a 5th round TKO against a fighter that showed all the hallmarks of being over the hill with Judah’s inability to let his hands go.
In interview at fighthype.com, Mayweather indicated that he’d like to see Khan face one of his fighters Jessie Vargas (16-0, 9 KO’s) instead of fighting him. Mayweather said “He [Khan] don’t really want that; not selling 2500 tickets and having a bunch of giveaways.”
I agree with Mayweather. It’s too early for a Khan-Mayweather fight because Khan isn’t a star in the U.S among casual boxing fans and still has yet to convince hardcore U.S fans he’s the real with Khan fighting guys like Paul McCloskey, Paulie Malignaggi and Judah instead of hard sluggers like Mike Alvarado, Lucas Matthysse and fighting rematches with Marcos Maidana and Breidis Prescott. Khan could become a big star in the U.S if he would fight those guys and wasn’t in such a big hurry to land the Mayweather fight, but he’s rushing it. Khan is like someone drawing the cart before the horse.
If Khan wants to get the Mayweather fight and become a big star, he needs to prove himself slowly in the correct manner by taking on the best fighters in the division, not angling to get fights against old guys that were just beaten like Erik Morales. What is that?
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