Depending on what happens in Las Vegas on Saturday night, we may soon have an Amir Khan/Floyd Mayweather bout to look forward to.
British boxer Amir Khan will face Danny Garcia on Saturday night in Las Vegas with the WBA, WBC and Ring Magazine light-welterweight belts on the line.
Khan is the warm favourite to win the fight and if he does, we could see a blockbuster bout between the British boxer and current jailbird Floyd Mayweather.
According to reports if Khan wins, and steps up to 147 pounds, both of which he is expected to do, then the fight is on.
“He will be looking for a fight later in the year and so is Amir,” Golden Boy Promotions chief executive Richard Schaefer told Sky Sports News regarding Mayweather. “We are suddenly going to have these kinds of conversations.
“I am going to have dinner with Team Khan, with Amir’s father and his legal advisor and we are going to map out his next steps.
“But again, we want to do first things first – Saturday night is not going to be a walk in the park for Amir and he knows that.
“But if everything goes good then of course Floyd Mayweather is there and he is waiting. Floyd Mayweather said more than once to me in his opinion his best fans are from the UK – he wouldn’t mind at all to do that fight or any fight for that matter, from England.”
Khan v Mayweather. It’s not Pacquiao but it’s probably as good a fight as we are going to get this year. Looks like we will be cheering on Khan on Saturday. As we will if he gets into the ring with the unbeaten Mayweather later this year.
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