By Scott Gilfoid: With rumors flying around left and right about who Amir Khan (28-3, 19 KO’s) will be fighting next, he’s still talking about only one fighter and that’s Floyd Mayweather Jr. as his next opponent. Khan badly wants that fight and he thinks he’s got the right strategy to hand Mayweather his first loss of his career next year when he finally get a chance to fight him.
Goodness knows, Khan has been talking about wanting to fight Mayweather for ages now, and it’ll be good to have Khan finally get it over with so that we don’t have to keep him yap about the fight.
Khan told Sports News “Speed is what gives Mayweather problems. You have to box Floyd at his own game. Speed always breaks a defense. Speed is the key to beating Floyd Mayweather. No one is as fast as me in the world of boxing, and I believe I will cause him a lot of problems. Floyd is interested in the fight.”
Khan is very fast, but he fights in such a disorganized manner that I just don’t think he’ll do well against an intelligent fighter like Floyd. It takes more than speed to beat a fighter like Mayweather, and Khan seems like he doesn’t have anything else other than speed in his toolbox.
I’m going to laugh if Floyd ignored Khan and ends up fighting someone else like Devon Alexander. Khan turned down a fight with Alexander in order to stay available in case Golden Boy Promotions could line him up with Mayweather. But it’ll be a sad day for Khan if he doesn’t get the fight next year in May. All that yapping by Khan for nothing.
In the interview, Khan made excuses for his performance in his last fight against Julio Diaz by saying that he was dehydrated for the fight. The bout was held at 143 lbs., which is the highest weight that Khan has ever fought at. I’m not sure why Khan would be dehydrated if he was fighting at 143 for the first time in his career.
If anything, Khan shouldn’t have been stronger for the fight instead of dehydrated. Khan was hurt a number of times by Diaz and knocked down in the 4th round. Khan thinks that fighters are going to avoid Diaz after this fight because of the problems that he gave him. I haven’t noticed that any of the top fighters are avoiding Diaz. But I did notice that Diaz just got beat last month by little Shawn Porter, I guess throws out Khan’s theory of other fighters now avoiding Diaz.
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