Khan-Mayweather a good marketable fight, says Golovkin

By Boxing News - 12/30/2013 - Comments

floyd#900By Dan Ambrose: To Gennady Golovkin a fight between Amir Khan (28-3, 19 KO’s) and Floyd Mayweather Jr. (45-0, 26 KO’s) is a fight that will bring in good money through pay-per-view and ticket sales. Obviously Mayweather isn’t exactly sold on Khan as an opponent the way that Golovkin is because he would have signed the fight ages in order to start drumming up interest in the fight. If you look at Mayweather’s recent fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, he wasn’t hesitant about signing for the fight.

What Mayweather doesn’t need is another Robert Guerrero type of opponent that results in his next fight bringing in less than 1 million PPV buys. If Mayweather fights Khan on May 3rd, then we’re probably looking at another fight with less than 1 million buys for Floyd. He can’t have that right now. Mayweather’s a business man and he’s got to go with the safe choice in facing Marcos Maiadana next, not Khan. That’s a risky right.

“It’s a good fight for everybody,” Golovkin said to Hustleboss “Amir Khan is a good boxer, he has good speed; not an easy fight for Floyd. It’s good [for] business. Yes [it’s a marketable fight]. You know Floyd is No.1 in the world, but Amir Khan has a lot of fans. It’s a good fight for box, for sport, for business.”

If Mayweather listens to Golovkin and ends up with only 500,000 PPV buys, I wonder what Golovkin will say then? ‘Opps, my bad. I guess I blew it with that one.’

If Mayweather chooses Khan then he’s going to need to start marketing that fight as soon as possible, because that fight is going to need extra marketing muscle to try and build Khan into a solid an opponent that’s not looked at by the boxing public as the next sacrificial lamb for Mayweather to clown for 12 rounds.

Golden Boy Promotions and Showtime would need to count on the casual boxing fans not having any clue about Khan’s past fights, because if they had any knowledge about Khan blasted around the ring by Breidis Prescott and Danny Garcia, then the interest in a Khan-Mayweather fight will drop to next to nothing. Mayweather-Khan fight could end up with some terrible numbers, even worse than Mayweather’s fight against Guerrero, because at least he had a lot of his Mexican fans that were willing to see him fight Mayweather.



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