(Photo credit: Hogan Photos) By Scott Gilfoid: IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook doesn’t think Amir Khan has earned the right to fight boxing great Floyd Mayweather Jr in 2015. Brook thinks Khan should at least have to fight him in order to rate for a fight against a super star like Mayweather.
Brook believes that Khan is just looking to get a big payday fight against Mayweather in order to collect the dough from that fight, and then move on to fights against guys like himself.
“He [Khan] doesn’t deserve to be fighting Mayweather,” Brook said to ESPN.co.uk. “I have earned it the hard way and if anyone should be in line to face Mayweather or Manny Pacquiao, it should be me, not him [Khan].”
Well, obviously Khan isn’t going to take any really risky fights against guys that have any kind of pop in their punch because the chances would be too high that he’d get knocked out again. Khan has been pining over a fight against Mayweather for at least the past three years and he’s not going to mess things up by fighting someone that can actually punch their way out of a wet paper bag.
If Khan were to get knocked out by Brook or some other welterweight like Keith Thurman then he could forget all about a big money fight against Mayweather. Fighting the light hitting Devon Alexander is a much different story then fighting someone who can punch like Thurman or Brook.
Actions speak louder than words. The fact that Khan is fighting Alexander rather than someone with power is kind of telling, because it shows that Khan is not looking to take any chances that he might get beaten and lose out on the Mayweather fight.
“All Amir is about is the big pay day against Mayweather, that’s what he wants the big fight for, the big pay day. That’s why he’s not talking about me because he will get chinned if we fight and then there will be no big bout for him,” Brook said.
If you look at the guys that Khan has faced recently – Luis Collazo, Julio Diaz and Carlos Molina – it shows that he’s not being matched against guys that are any threat to beating him. He’s also not being matched against guys with any kind of power that could unseat him the way that the big hitters in the welterweight division could do.
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