By Carlos Boogs

Amir Khan (31-3, 19KOs) has been trying to get a fight with Floyd Maywearther Jr. (49-0, 26KOs) since 2012.

This past Saturday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Khan got close enough to Mayweather to verbally engage him for an answer as to why he passed him over several times.

Khan was sitting one row behind Mayweather, as both fighters were ringside to watch the WBC championship fight between Danny Garcia and Robert Guerrero. Mayweather vacated the WBC title after announcing his retirement last September. Khan is the WBC's mandatory challenger to Garcia, who captured the belt with a twelve round decision.

Khan thought he would get Mayweather in 2014. The fight never happened. Mayweather passed him over, twice for back to back fights with Marcos Maidana. Mayweather then faced Manny Pacquiao last May and added insult to injury when he selected Khan's friend, Andre Berto, as the retirement opponent for September

Mayweather apparently took the first verbal swing, by taking a jab at Khan's 2012 knockout loss to Garcia.

“He was sat in front of me, and he looked back and he said ‘is this the guy that beat you [talking about Garcia]? Is this the guy that beat you?' So then we started going at it. I said ‘answer me one question, why wouldn’t you fight me?’ And he didn’t have an answer,” Khan told ES News.

“He then started to shout quite loudly and started some commotion, and everything. Literally, I shut him up. I put him in his place. I said ‘look if you want to fight, I’m here.' He just started screaming. I couldn’t understand half the stuff he was saying. I remember him bringing the money, his money in, saying - ‘look, I make 300 million a fight, you can’t touch me. No one can be like me, I’m the best.’ I think he’s just living in his own hype really."