By Scott Gilfoid: Former IBF/WBA 140lb champion Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KOs) thinks that he’s the guys WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (47-0, 26 KOs) needs to boost his pay-per-view numbers, which Khan thinks are sagging.
How Khan can know what Mayweather’s pay-per-view numbers are is anyone’s guess, because Showtime hasn’t released his numbers for his last two fights against Marcos Maidana. Khan is making a guess that they’re low, but he doesn’t know and he can’t know.
Khan thinks that boxing fans in the United States will be excited at the thought of him fighting Mayweather, because he says he’s intelligent, speaks English and is a good talker.
“I think Floyd needs somebody to get them numbers high,” Khan said to Fighthype.com. “If you look at his last few fights, they’ve been quite low, apart from the Canelo fight.”
Khan constantly flapping his gums about a fight against Mayweather comes across as Khan being needy for a quick payday rather than someone who wants to actually go out and earn his way to a fight with Mayweather by beating the likes of Keith Thurman.
To me, a “few” means three, and Mayweather’s last two fights have come against Maidana. His fight before the two Maidana fights came against Canelo Alvarez, so Khan is a bit off when he says that Mayweather’s numbers are off in his last few fights. Khan should have said Maywether’s numbers are off in his last couple of fights, but even that would be speculation on Khan’s part because he doesn’t know what those numbers are other than the rumors and guesses that boxing writers make.
I honestly don’t see Khan as being well-known enough in the United States for him to pump up Mayweather’s PPV numbers to the 1 million buy area. Khan is like a British version of Robert Guerrero in my book in terms of him being known to the casual boxing fans in the U.S. Khan might be known to hardcore boxing fans, but casual fans have no clue who he is other than possibly some of them remembering how he was knocked out by Danny Garcia.
Khan really needs to try and avenge his losses to Lamont Peterson, Danny Garcia and Breidis Prescott before he starts talking about a Mayweather fight, because there’s too many boxing fans who remember those defeats for Khan and many of those fans feel that he’s been running from those guys instead of looking to seek them out to get revenge.
Mayweather gains nothing in fighting Khan, because he would be put in the position of fighting Garcia, Prescott and Peterson’s leftovers. The thing that Mayweather doesn’t want is to have to try and do a better job of whipping Khan than those guys did. It’s not even sporting if all Mayweather is going to be doing is trying to improve upon the job that three other fighters did in beating Khan.
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