By William Mackay: Taking a page out of the playbook of Floyd Mayweather Jr., former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (26-2, 18 KO’s) is now insisting that ALL of his opponents agree to take voluntary drug testing for performance enhancing drugs or he’ll refuse to fight them.

This is a result of Khan’s last opponent IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Lamont Peterson having tested positive for synthetic testosterone months after their fight.

Khan said to thesun.co.uk “The drug tests is in the contract. All my opponents from now on will have to take the tests are there is no fight. I signed up with the Voluntary Anti Doping Association…For every one of my bouts, there will there will be a clause in the contract to either agree or I will walk away.”

Khan can get away with this for the time being but once he takes another loss or two, he might look a little silly trying to come across like he’s dictating the terms. For a fighter that is coming off of a loss to Peterson and who also suffered a 1st round knockout defeat that he never even tried to avenge against Breidis Prescott, it looks like Khan isn’t seeing the big picture here.

Khan is really a fighter that was just exposed – again – in his loss to Peterson in his last fight, and really fought poorly by fouling and running to try and escape his pressure. I could understand Khan being the one that’s calling the shots if he had won his last fight and was someone that was clearly an unbeatable fighter, but he’s not that kind of fighter.

Khan is flawed and he’s fought a lot of weak opponent. Even the Peterson fight seemed to be another case of Khan picking out a guy that couldn’t punch. The boxing fans wanted to see Khan fight a rematch against Marcos Maidana or Breidis Prescott, but instead Khan chose the lighter hitting Peterson. Khan wasn’t supposed to lose to this guy, and yet he did. Now he’s talking as if he’s the guy in control like he’s still a champion rather than someone that just got beat.

Khan will be facing WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia on July 14th in Las Vegas, and like in the Peterson fight, Khan will be going into it as the favorite. We could see Khan get beat again, because Garcia can punch, and he tends to throw of shots. The real question here is whether the referee that’s picked out by the World Boxing Council will enforce the rules about no shoving, and whether the referee will keep Khan from pulling down on Garcia’s head all night long.