By Mark Vester
According to WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan, he wanted Marcos Maidana so bad that he agreed to give up the homefield advantage and allowed Golden Boy Promotions to send the fight to the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Khan tried very hard to have the fight in the UK, but the numbers wouldn't add up with the amount of money being requested by Maidana. Khan has promised that his next fight will take place in the UK.
"I wanted to fight Maidana so badly I have given up home advantage, even though I am the champion and not him. My team tried very hard to get this fight to the UK. But because of Maidana's demands, the figures just wouldn't add up. I can assure fans that my team will be doing whatever they can to stage my next world title defence in the UK. I thought we could do it this time but it hasn't worked out. Next year I want to fight in front of my fans in my country," Khan told Pat Sheehan of The Sun.
Khan's father, Shah, would like his son's next fight to take place in the UK.
"It is still a very big ambition of Amir's to make a defence in England. There is no reason why the next bout after Maidana can't be staged there."
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