Promoter Oscar De La Hoya is already to put his budding star Amir Khan in with Floyd Mayweather Jr. in early 2012 depending on how well Amir Khan does against challenger Lamont Peterson on Saturday in Washington, DC. Khan plans on moving up in weight after this fight to seek out bigger fights at welterweight and his goal is to face Floyd Mayweather Jr and be the one that hands him his first loss of his career.
De La Hoya is kind of in a bind here. If he risks putting Khan in with someone good at welterweight like Andre Berto, Victor Ortiz or Mike Jones, Amir Khan could be knocked out. At the very least, he could struggle and look terrible even in winning. It’s hard to see Amir Khan beating any of those fighters in an impressive manner. If De La Hoya matches aMIR Khan against some of the weaker opposition, aMIR Khan will be overmatched when he faces a Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Amir Khan really hasn’t taken on a younger quality fighter for a while. Amir Khan struggled against Marcos Maidana in winning a decision and then got a weak puncher in Paul McCloskey, who made Khan look really bad with his defensive skills. If a limited fighter like McCloskey can make Khan look bad just try and imagine what Floyd Mayweather Jr. would do to Khan. I doubt that De La Hoya cares about that, because the money a Amir Khan – Floyd Mayweather Jr fight would make for all those involved would more than make up for Khan getting slaughtered by Floyd Mayweather Jr.
I think De La Hoya is going to have to match Khan light when he moves up in weight unless they can convince Floyd Mayweather Jr. to fight him immediately in May. Khan’s chin is too weak to put him in with Berto, Jones or Ortiz and it would be a recipe for destruction.
I personally think De La Hoya should try as hard as he can to convince Floyd Mayweather Jr. to take the Amir Khan fight in early 2012, because if they wait, Amir Khan is probably going to get slaughtered unless they keep matching him against feather-fisted fighters like Peterson and McCloskey.
Unfortunately for De La Hoya and Amir Khan, at welterweight they hit harder and it will be like putting Khan through an obstacle course to match him carefully so that he doesn’t exposed again. Amir Khan doesn’t have the chin to stand in there with the big punchers unless he’s got his wheels working all night and/or a referee that breaks up the action when Amir Khan is getting pummeled.
Source: ThyBlackMan.com
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