khan4353 By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan believes that his conqueror WBA/WBC light welterweight champion Danny Garcia doesn’t want to fight him for some reason, and says he’s going to push his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions to try and persuade Garcia to fight him later on this year so that Khan can try ad avenge his 4th round knockout loss.

Khan said to Sky Sports “We’d love to fight Danny Garcia in a rematch. It’s a fight that the world wants to see, but right now Danny Garcia doesn’t seem to want to fight me. But we’re still going to push him and with help from Golden Boy Promotions, I’m sure the fight can be made. I’m thinking about getting back in the ring in April sometime. The more I train in the gym with Virgil [Hunter] in San Francisco, the better I’m going to get. Then the Garcia fight can happen towards the end of the year because he’s fighting Zab Judah.”

I find it hard to believe that Garcia is afraid to fight Khan. He trounced Khan last year in July, so why would he of all people be avoiding Khan? I think Khan is seeing things that simply aren’t there. Garcia is the last guy that Khan should be trying to get a fight with because he really wiped the deck with Khan in that fight, knocking him down three separate times before the massacre was finally halted in the fourth round.

Khan says he was hurt by a lucky shot from Garcia, but that’s silly because you could see from the 2nd round that the fight was starting to change. Garcia was timing Khan better and hitting him with solid left hooks. The knockout wasn’t surprising at all. Khan was going to get knocked out sooner or later by Garcia and it makes a lot of sense that it happened sooner.

Khan thinks that his new trainer Hunter is going to change his fighting style and improve, but I honestly can’t see any improvement at all in his game from his fight with Carlos Molina. Khan looked like the same old Khan. The only difference was that he was fighting a short lightweight with no power instead of a light welterweight that can punch a little.