By Scott Gilfoid: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says he spoke to Floyd Mayweather Jr. at a recent Los Angeles Lakers game the other night, and he said that he does plan on fighting Amir Khan in the near future but just not this time. Mayweather passed Khan up for this fight by choosing Marcos Maidana for his May 3rd fight. For Khan to get a fight with Mayweather, he’s obviously going to have to pick up a decent win or two and stop losing each time he steps up against a good opponent.
“I saw Floyd on Monday night at the Los Angeles Lakers basketball game and he was telling me, ‘tell Amir that it’s not going to happen now, but it will happen,'” Schaefer said to Sky Sports.
So there it is. Khan has been acting like it’s the end of the world just because he didn’t get the fight with Mayweather for May 3rd, but he’s still going to get a fight against him. Khan just needs to keep quiet and start fighting again. The guy wasted a year of his career sitting around waiting for Mayweather to gift him a fight, and he’s got nothing to show for the entire year. You can’t expect Khan to be as sharp as he was before with him coming off of that kind of layoff. As it is, Khan looked terrible in his last four fights against Lamont Peterson, Danny Garcia, Carlos Molina and Julio Diaz. I don’t expect Khan to be a better fighter now that he’s thrown away a year of his career.
Just because Mayweather said he’ll throw Khan a bone it doesn’t mean he’ll fight him. Like I said, Khan is going to need to beat someone good and he can’t continue to fight stiffs if he wants the Mayweather fight. If Golden Boy Promotions puts Khan in with someone halfway decent, I think Khan will lose. If they put him back in with Lamont Peterson, Khan will likely get knocked out this time unless he pulls the same head-pulling and shoving tricks that he did in their fight in 2011. If Khan fights Shawn Porter, then I can see him getting beaten up on the inside by Porter and possibly stopped. Khan also said he wants to fight Adrien Broner.
Well, I don’t see Golden Boy letting that fight happen, because they probably don’t want to get in a situation where they lose no matter who comes out on top in this fight. Golden Boy obviously want Khan or Broner to lose, because that doesn’t help them out. Those are two of Golden Boy’s top fighters in terms of popularity, and they’re not going to let them fight.
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