Khan on Vegas Judges For Canelo, Smoking Mayweather Out

By Terence Dooley

Bolton's Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) jetted back into the U.K. last weekend for the Carl Frampton-Scott Quigg fight as well as the small matter of a London press conference and head-to-head with Saul Alvarez, who he meets for the linear middleweight and WBC world titles in Las Vegas on May 7th.

The 29-year-old former WBA and IBF titlist has signed on to fight Alvarez at 155lbs, the de facto middleweight division limit in recent times if you remove Gennady Golovkin from the equation.

Khan is excited by the prospect of the fight; he made his feelings clear when speaking to BoxingScene about the match up.

“I’m looking forward to it,” he said during a post-presser phone call.  “I am glad I did some training before the conference and am now going back over to America for my full camp.  It’s brilliant, I can’t wait to get into the ring.”

A lot of fans and pundits have written Khan off, Alvarez will be hard to budge and few would pick against him on the judges scorecards on a Mexican national holiday weekend.  Khan, though, believes that he will be given a fair shake in "sin city".

“That won’t be a problem,” he said.  “This will be live on television, the world will be watching us so everyone will get a chance to judge who wins it if it goes to points—if it does I will definitely win it.

“My team are looking at the officials for the fight, plus I’ve fought in Vegas five times already and never had a bad decision—they’ve always looked after me.  The Vegas commission and judges do a great job over there.  Both fighters will be fairly treated.”

Twice in line for a shot at Floyd Mayweather Junior, Khan believes that a win would smoke out “Money” for a big money fight in the city he calls home. 

“I think he should, yeah,” said Khan when asked if Mayweather should reenter the fray.

“That just might make him feel like a comeback against me for that (middleweight) title would work.  I want those big names.  We will see how the fight goes then sit down for the next move, but I take things one step at a time and never look beyond a fight.”

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