By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan (30-3, 19 KOs) appears to be at the end of the line with his hopes of getting a fight against WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr (47-0, 26 KOs) before he retires. Mayweather wants the bigger names in the sport for the bigger paydays, and Khan simply doesn’t bring enough green to the table to make it a worthwhile fight.
“I’m sure Floyd would want the fight because financially it would make a lot of money,” said Khan via the Dailymail.co.uk.
A Mayweather-Khan fight would make decent money, but likely no more than Mayweather’s last two fights against Marcos Maidana. Those brought in a fair amount of pay-per-view buys, but they were rumored to be below 1 million buys and a not even close to the 2 million buys that Mayweather’s fight against Saul “Canelo” Alvarez brought in.
Mayweather would have to want to take the fight against Khan more for the sake of his legacy rather than the money, because the money isn’t there. It’s not going to be a big money maker. That’s just the way it is.
As far as Mayweather taking the fight with Khan for the sake of his legacy, I don’t know that a win over Khan would do much for Mayweather’s legacy. I mean, Khan already got whipped by Danny Garcia, Breidis Prescott and Lamont Peterson. Mayweather would be getting sloppy fourths if he were to beat Khan too. In other words, there would be no real upside to beating him because he’s been beaten before in the past, so it’s not as if it’s a big deal.
“Floyd’s getting a little older now,” Khan said. “I’m getting stronger and wiser and smarter. I’ve proven myself and the fight can happen.”
You really can’t say whether Khan is getting wiser and smarter because he’s not fought anyone that was a real threat to him, because all the guys he’s fought have been average punchers. You can thank Khan’s adviser Al Haymon for the match-making he’s done for Khan, because none of the guys that he’s faced have had the power to plant him the way that Prescott and Danny Garcia did.
Now if Khan were beating guys with major power, then you could say that he’s getting wiser, smarter and that he’s proven himself. But until he faces guys that can punch their way out of a wet paper bag, you can’t consider him to have proven himself worthy of a Mayweather fight.
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