By William Mackay: Former four division world champion Roy Jones Jr. feels that Floyd Mayweather Jr. will continue to stay in the unbeaten ranks as long as he doesn’t take a fight against former IBF/WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan. Jones thinks Khan would give Mayweather a lot of problems if the two were to fight.”

Jones said to esnewsreporting.com “Floyd stays undefeated as long as he stays away from Khan…He’s the only one that can disrupt his game.”

I see it a little differently than Jones. While I do agree that Khan can give Mayweather Jr. problems, I only see that happening if Khan is free to shove, pull down on Mayweather’s head, hold & hit, and put him in head locks. If a referee works the fight that is on his game and not agreeable to Khan using his various fouling techniques, then I see Khan losing by a lopsided decision or getting stopped. But the thing is the referees that have been working Khan’s fights have pretty much allowed him to use these fouls without penalizing him for it. It was only recently that a referee stood up and took two points from Khan for his shoving. In the Khan vs. Zab Judah fight, Khan held Judah’s head down with his left arm and landed a finishing belt line body shot that stopped Judah. While the body shot may have been legal, the holding Judah’s head down with his left arm certainly wasn’t and the referee should have waived off the knockout.

In the Khan vs. Marcos Maidana fight, Khan used a lot of shoving and pulling down on Maidana’s head in front of the referee and he never a lost a point for it. Strangely enough, it was Maidana who had a point deducted for throwing an elbow that hit the referee and not Khan. Maidana did this when Khan spun him around and was grabbing him by his back.

If Mayweather doesn’t have to deal with Khan’s fouls, I see him beating Khan with ease. But I don’t think there are too many referees in the U.S that enforce rules like no shoving, no pulling down on the head, no holding and hitting and no head locks. Given the past, I think Khan would be able to do whatever he pleases against Mayweather and we may see Mayweather respond with the some fouling of his own, similar to his fight against Victor Ortiz.