By Allan Fox: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is hoping he can put together a fight between Amir Khan and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Schaefer believes that Khan’s large British fan base will help make the fight a huge success by them flying over from the UK to see the fight in the U.S. Interestingly enough, Schaefer doesn’t see the fight as a mismatch like most people view the Mayweather-Khan fight. Schaefer thinks that with Khan’s hand speed that he could give Mayweather a lot of problems. Schaefer rates Khan’s hand speed as better than Mayweather’s.
Schaefer said to RingTV “From a speed point of view, Mayweather is very, very fast and has very fast hands, but I am going to say that Amir Khan’s hands and hand-speed is faster than Floyd Mayweather’s, and that his footwork is exceptional as well…In the speed category, he is faster than Floyd Mayweather. We’ll see if that fight can be done. It’s a fascinating match-up.”
Khan might have an advantage in hand speed, but if he can’t take a hard shot from Mayweather without hitting the deck then it’s not going to be worth much for Khan to be the faster guy. He needs to be the smarter guy, and he needs to build up some chin resistance. Khan has said that he feels that his ability to take shots will be better now that he’s put on weight and is about to start fighting at 147. However, Khan didn’t do a great job of taking head shots in his last fight against Julio Diaz and that fight was at welterweight.
There shouldn’t be any reason why Schaefer can’t put together a fight between Khan and Mayweather. The only logical reason why he might have problems making the fight happen is if Khan is asking for too big of a purse split. If Khan wants too much money then Mayweather definitely will move on rather than paying him what he feels he’s not worth.
Khan might not bring in a lot of boxing fans in the U.S. because he doesn’t have a large fan base like Mayweather’s last opponent Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. It’s possible that Khan won’t be able to bring in the amount of fans that Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero did in his fight against Mayweather. A Khan-Mayweather fight could be a dud as far as bringing in PPV buys because of Khan’s lack of a fan base in the U.S.
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