By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan’s victory over Marcos Maidana in Floyd Mayweather Jr’s poll at his website meant that Khan is supposed to be the one that Mayweather fights next on May 3rd due to him telling fans that the winner of the poll would be the guy that he faces next. While there are some fans who feel that Mayweather will receive a massive amount of criticism if he chooses to fight Maidana instead of Khan, I think it won’t be that big of a deal.
The only fans that will make a federal case over this will be the “hardcore fans” of Khan, and not the millions upon millions of casual fans, who won’t have clue one about Mayweather’s poll on his website. The casual boxing fans that find out about the poll, they won’t likely give a fig that Mayweather changed his mind about wanting to fight the winner.
You have to remember that Mayweather will likely get most of his pay-per-view buys for his May 3rd fight from Mexican fans celebrating the Cinco de Mayo holiday on May 3rd. Choosing Maidana instead of Khan will be a good thing for Mayweather because it’ll likely mean many more PPV buys for him than what he’d get for a Khan fight.
Khan has been saying that he brings all the fans from Asia and the UK for a Mayweather fight, and that’s absolutely true. However, those fans won’t be able to purchase the fight on PPV in the U.S. unless they’re there to purchase it. In other words, Khan saying that he has a lot of fans that will watch the fight in Asia and the UK won’t mean a thing for Mayweather because it won’t translate into more PPV buys on Showtime/CBS, which is the cable company that will be televising the fight to U.S fans.
Mayweather doesn’t need to worry about guilt. His thing is just to make sure that he picks the right opponent that will interest fans so that he doesn’t get put in a situation where he and Golden Boy Promotions has to stack the undercard with major fights to make up for his lack of an interesting opponent in the main event.
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