Danny Garcia: I'm Sure I'll Fight Khan - Once He Rebuilds Career

By Edward Chaykovsky

WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia (33-0, 19 KOs) expects to face Amir Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) in a rematch at some point in the near future.

Garcia and Khan collided back in 2012 in a junior welterweight unification from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas.  Khan was doing very well until he got clipped with a huge hook that dropped him in the third round. He never fully recovered and was stopped in the fourth round.

At the moment Khan is the mandatory challenger to Garcia's WBC welterweight title.

Garcia is even open to the idea of facing Khan in the UK - once the Bolton boxer has been able to rebuild his career.

Khan has been out of the ring since getting knocked out by Saul "Canelo" Alvarez last May. For that contest, Khan jumped up to a catch-weight of 155-pounds. In a similar scenario as the fight with Garcia, Khan started very well with Canelo and then got knocked out cold by a single punch in the sixth round.

Garcia has a very tough assignment ahead of himself, with a unification scheduled against WBA world champion Keith Thurman on March 4th at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. A win by Thurman would derail a future rematch between Garcia and Khan.

“I’m pretty sure Amir Khan and I will meet in the ring again one day soon. But Khan will have to work his way back up to the top after that Canelo knock out. He needs fights to rebuild his career but he needs to work on confidence before he gets back in the ring me," Garcia said to The Sun.

“I’d love a fight to happen in the UK. Boxing is huge over there, there’s always huge turn outs. The UK fans love boxing so it makes sense to fight there one day.”