By William Mackay: WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia (23-0, 14 KO’s) has made it clear what his requirements are for him to agree to a fight against former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-2, 18 KO’s). For a fight between him and Khan to take place, Khan will have to have his IBF and WBA titles back in his possession for a fight to take place. If not, then the 24-year-old Garcia has to defend his title against his #1 mandatory challenger Ajose Olusegun.

Garcia said this on his twitter page: “A unification bout with Khan is the only way we can fight. if he don’t get his belts back then I will have to face my mandatory.”

Garcia isn’t saying this because he’s looking to duck the Khan fight, but rather because the only way the World Boxing Council will allow Garcia to bypass his mandatory defense against Olusegun if if there’s a bigger unification fight on the line with Khan or the WBO champ Tim Bradley. The problem that Khan has is he’s not likely going to have his IBF and WBA titles handed back to him by the sanctioning bodies because there’s no proof that Peterson was using performance enhancing drugs when the two fighters fought last December.

Peterson was tested and he came up clean. Khan and his promoter Richard Schaefer want Peterson to be stripped of his titles, because he reportedly was using synthetic testosterone to treat his low natural levels of testosterone a month before the fight. However, with Peterson testing clean for the fight with Khan, it makes it hard for the sanctioning bodies to strip him of his titles.

At best, they can strip him after the fact due to his testing positive after December, but that still won’t get Khan’s titles back. The titles could possibly be vacant for a fight between Garcia and Khan, but that’s not what you call a unification bout, is it? And, if the titles aren’t in Khan’s possession, then Garcia likely won’t be allowed to bypass his defense against Olusegun, because it won’t be a unification bout between Khan and Garcia.