By Ryan Burton
BoxingScene's Mark Vester recently ran a story in which WBA junior weltelterweight champion Amir Khan made disparaging remarks about fellow champions Devon Alexander and Tim Bradley. Khan had said that he saw many flaws in Alexander after his unanimous decision victory over Andriy Kotelnik in August. Bradley and Alexander's manager Kevin Cunningham have since fired back with choice words for the British champion.
Alexander, who holds the WBC and IBF versions of the junior welterweight championship reached out to BoxingScene to give his opinion of Amir Khan and he isn't impressed with what he has seen either, "I guess getting KO'd makes you flawless."
The 23-year-old Don King promoted fighter was obviously pointing out Khan's 2008
first round knockout loss to Breidis Prescott.
Alexander is looking on to bigger things after the Bradley fight and he doesn't feel fighting a guy with a recent first round knockout loss on his resume is the biggest fight out there. He feels that moving up and fighting the top guys in the welterweight division would be a bigger challenge.
The St. Louis native told BoxingScene - "Once I beat Bradley I'm not interested in fighting guys that have been recently knocked out. I would fight Khan but the fans want to see me fight the best guys out there. I am doing that by fighting Bradley in January. After that I want to fight the top guys like Mayweather, Pacquiao, Mosley, or Berto."
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