Boxing News 2014: Frustrated Khan Wants Pacquiao If Mayweather Ducks Him
Amir Khan is frustrated that Floyd Mayweather Jr. has yet to sign the contract that will make the May 3 megafight possible this 2014.
Khan told The Daily Mail that he has signed the deal to fight the unbeaten American boxer but his counterpart hasn’t acted on the offer yet as Mayweather is still studying his options on his probable opponents come May.
“I am the one who signed the contract, I’ve signed my part of the contract, they’ve not signed theirs,” said Khan referring to Mayweather and his camp.
Mayweather is wildly criticized in the boxing circles as a fighter who has cherry-picked his opponents on the way to a perfect 45-0-0 record.
“If he wants to face someone I’ve beaten then so be it,” added Khan, who beat Marcos Maidana, another boxer who is in the Mayweather sweepstakes, in 2010. “He wants to fight someone who makes him look good but styles make fights.”
With the latest development, Khan has no problem finding a quality opponent if indeed Mayweather bolts and is looking at Manny Pacquiao as the probable fighter to take on in 2014.
“I’d fight Manny. Look, it’s business. We are friends and respect each other, but I would definitely consider the fight, and I am sure he would too.” Kahn said in the same interview.
The 27-year-old British boxer also added that he’d want to bring the bout to Dubai, where he has a very solid fanbase.
“To bring it to Dubai, too, that would be huge.”
Khan is currently under trainer’s Virgil Hunter tutelage but has spent a considerable amount of his career with Freddie Roach, who runs the Wild Card Gym and trains Manny Pacquiao.