By Lem Satterfield
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is very surprised that his championship counterparts, Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander, have yet to finalize a deal for their scheduled fight on January 29. Last week, Khan and his mandatory challenger Marcos Maidana reached an agreement to fight on December 4 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Khan wants Bradley and Alexander to reach a deal to push forward with their tournament at 140-pounds. Alexander has reached an agreement with his promoter Don King. Bradley and his manager Cameron Dunkin have not reached a deal with promoter Gary Shaw.
"Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander, they're not fighting each other. I said that after the Malignaggi fight that we should come up with a box-off. I would fight Maidana and Bradley should fight Alexander. And the winner should fight the winner," Khan said.
"That surprises me [that Bradley has not signed], because I think that Bradley will beat Alexander. But, I don't know. I'm quite surprised. But Bradley likes to pick his fights and you know he should just get it done. Because why is he fighting all of these fighters he knows that he's going to win against?"
Unless Bradley signs a contract to fight Alexander, Khan will push the belief that Bradley is avoiding the hard fights.
"He should sign to fight Alexander and put himself into a challenging fight. Bradley had been saying that I was the one who was avoiding fighters, but now, he's the one that you can say is avoiding all of these tough fights. He proved it in his last fight," Khan said.
"He was saying that there's no one left in the 140-pound division, and he goes up and fights a guy at at 147 pounds [Carlos Luis Abregu] who was not even in the top 10. So it just goes to show you who he should be fighting."
Lem Satterfield is the boxing editor at AOL FanHouse and the news editor at BoxingScene.com. To read more from Lem Satterfield, go to AOL FanHouse by Clicking Here.
