By Scott Gilfoid: Kenny Porter, the trainer/father for former IBF welterweight champion Shawn Porter, does not see Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) as a relevant fighter in the welterweight division because he is not facing the top fighters in the division.
Kenny thinks Khan is not in the conversation for a fight against Manny Pacquiao because he has not been facing the guys that he needs to be fighting for him to be relevant.
Khan is still technically one of the big three candidates that Pacquiao’s 84-year-old promoter Bob Arum has selected for Pacquiao to choose from for his next fight on April 9th. However, Khan seems to have been marginalized to the back of the pack by Arum after he said openly in an interview that he hopes Pacquiao doesn’t select Khan.
Pacquiao seems to have picking the guys that Arum has wanted him to all along since he signed on with Top Rank many years ago, and it’s not likely that Pacquiao is going to start going against what he wants at this point in his career. That probably means no Pacquiao fight for Khan.
“I thought I was hearing Bradley [for Pacquiao],” Kenny Porter said to Fighthype. “I don’t want to see him and Bradley again. We’ve seen it twice. Give somebody else a shot. Terence Crawford, a great young fighter; give him a shot. You know what? Amir Khan is not being relevant. He’s not standing out to the forefront to take on those challenges. I don’t know what he’s doing. He’s not making himself available to us or to anybody else in the division. We’d love to have an Amir Khan fight. I don’t think he’s even in the conversation now. He’s basically been very quiet, and he needs to make some noise. The only way he can make some noise is by getting inside the ring and rumbling,” Kenny said.
Kenny is right about Khan no longer being relevant. I think Khan stopped being relevant three years ago after he was blasted into oblivion by Danny Garcia by a 4th round knockout in 2012. Since that loss, Khan has been fighting fodder opposition in safe fights to keep him winning. The sad thing is that Khan was campaigning hard during the last two years for a big payday fight against Floyd Mayweather Jr., but he wouldn’t give Khan the fight because he noticed that Khan wasn’t fighting the best any longer.
If Khan really wanted a fight against Mayweather, then he should have done what Marcos Maidana did by beating Adrien Broner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzoRSaImPWI
Khan did fight once this year in beating Chrsi Algieri by a close 12 round decision in May, and he fought terribly in barely beating a fighter that Pacquiao easily beat last year in November. Khan blabbered afterwards about how Algieri had improved dramatically since his fight against Pacquiao. However, that obviously isn’t the case because Algieri struggled badly to beat 2nd tier fighter Erick Bone by a 10 round decision earlier this month on December 5th. Algieri looked like the same fighter that Pacuiao beat.
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