Floyd Mayweather Slammed by Amir Khan as Brit Awaits Manny Pacquiao Fight
British boxer Amir Khan has hit out at former fighter Floyd Mayweather once again, implying the undefeated American was too scared to square off against him before retiring from the sport.
Speaking with Boxing News (h/t Jacob Murtagh of the Daily Mirror), the Bolton-born puncher opened up on his attempts to get in the ring with Mayweather prior to him hanging up the gloves and suggested despite a career record of 49 wins from 49 professional fights, Floyd is definitely beatable:
"I wanted the Floyd Mayweather fight. Floyd in a way he chickened out, he didn’t give me the fight. Three years he was saying he was going to give me the fight, then he didn’t give me the fight.
Mayweather’s very beatable. If you look at when he fought against Berto. He was making a few mistakes, he was getting caught a lot, and something I’ve never seen before.
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Reading too much into Mayweather’s 49th fight against Andre Berto seems a little misguided from Khan. After all, this was a bout that was hopelessly lopsided, with Floyd going through the motions, barely paying much attention to his opponent and coasting to another easy win.
As we can see here courtesy of TheLounge, it wasn’t a fight that Mayweather seemed to take very seriously at all:
"When Mayweather fought Berto, he kept making faces at Berto's girlfriend. pic.twitter.com/DTRLjo3D1h
— The Lounge (@TheLoungeSite) October 3, 2015"
But should he come back to boxing and fight someone who is of a higher standard, then you suspect his focus would return very quickly. It’s unlikely to be Khan, though, who continues to diminish any slender chances he has of getting a shot at Mayweather by being critical of the American in a variety of different interviews.
As noted recently by Boxing Kingdom, there is a sense of obsession when it comes to Khan’s relentless focus on Mayweather:
Still, it seems as though there are big challenges to come for Khan elsewhere and he provided an update on a potential showdown with Manny Pacquiao in the aforementioned piece.
“Pacquiao is a fight I’d like to have because styles make fights,” said Khan. “At this moment in time I think it can happen, it’s all about just doing the little things, contracts and stuff. I’ve left it to my team. My team takes care of it. It’s a good fight for me.”
It’d definitely be a fight the fans would like to see. Pacquiao hasn’t been in the ring since he lost to Mayweather earlier in the year, but he remains a massive draw and for Khan, it’d be a huge opportunity to prove he can mix it with elite guys after making solid progress in his previous three outings.
However, Boxing Memes remain unconvinced that Khan should be waiting around for fights against the likes of Pacquiao and Mayweather when there are other opponents out there:
It’s a tricky one for Khan. While his constant chatter about Mayweather is growing tiresome, it’s tough to knock his ambition for wanting to fight the top boxers in the business. Still, although he was strong in wins over Devon Alexander, Luis Collazo and Chris Algieri, you sense he needs one more big win to truly warrant a shot at someone like Pacquiao.
Khan does seem confident a fight can happen with Manny, though. If that was to go ahead, the Brit was to win and Mayweather was to eventually return, it would make sense for a Khan-Floyd showdown. But even if matters were to pan out in that fashion, you wonder whether the man from Bolton has already said too much to ever get a shot at Money.
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