By Chris Williams: Roger Mayweather, the uncle for Floyd Mayweather Jr., is saying that Marcos Maidana will be getting the fight with Mayweather Jr. on May 3rd and not Amir Khan. If this is true, then Khan will have won the poll on Mayweather’s website for nothing, because Khan defeated Maidana in the poll 57% to 43%, and he’s talking as if he’s got the fight in the bag now. But Mayweather Jr. is someone that can change his mind, and it could be that he decided that Maidana is the bigger money fight than facing Khan on Cinco de Mayo and risking that the fight does poorly.
“I think it was going to be Amir Khan, but they say Maidana,” Roger said to esnewsreporting. Who “they” is still unclear.
This is going to be a huge blow to Khan’s career if he doesn’t get the Mayweather fight, because then he’ll have to finally get back in the ring and face one of Golden Boy Promotions fighters like Keith Thurman or Devon Alexander in order to get his career moving once again. Khan has been out of the ring since last April, just waiting on the word that he’s been picked out for the Mayweather fight.
It makes a lot of sense for Mayweather to give Maidana the fight regardless of the fact that Khan won the poll at the mayweatherpromotions.com website, because the date of the fight is better suited for Maidana, he won 4 of the independent polls by huge margins, and he’s got a world title in his possession. Maidana deserves the fight for what he’s accomplished in the ring in the past 2 years. With Khan, he’s not done a whole lot in a number of years. Based on merits, Maidana comes out ahead of Khan by a wide margin for deserving the fight with Mayweather. And if you look at it from a business standpoint, Maidana is the better guy to be fighting Mayweather on Cinco de Mayo compared to Khan.
By Khan not fighting, he’s thrown away a year of his career and has nothing to show for it at all other than him having trained hard with his trainer Virgil Hunter while waiting.
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