By William Mackay: While Amir Khan has been busy bragging about how he’s going to blow away WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia on July 14th, Golden Boy Promotions president Oscar De La Hoya sees the fight as being a competitive one that could either way.
De La Hoya said to esnewsreporting.com “Amir Khan has to get through Danny Garcia, which is no easy task. This is a 50-50 fight for both guys.”
De La Hoya also spoke on the option of Khan facing Floyd Mayweather Jr. in the future, saying “If ever that fight presents itself, it should be a great fight.”
However, De La Hoya didn’t look convinced that it would happen in the future judging by the way he spoke.
De La Hoya is right about the Khan vs. Garcia fight – it is a 50-50 fight. Khan is a badly flawed fighter as we saw in his losses to Breidis Prescott and Lamont Peterson. The last thing the guy should be doing is looking at ahead for a fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr. or some other big name. That’s the whole problem with Khan. He likes to look ahead and then he turns around and gets beat.
He was looking ahead and planning out his next bout before the Peterson fight, and that turned out to be a real dumb move. Now he’s doing it again by talking up a fight with Mayweather, and talking about how he’s going to move up to the welterweight division after this fight. What he should be doing is saying nothing beyond this fight against Garcia unless he wants to still move up in weight even if he gets beaten by Garcia. I could see that happening, because it’s not as if Khan avenged his loss to Prescott. He had the chance and chose not to. I guess he can do the same thing if he loses to Garcia.
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