Schaefer: Maidana Will Not Take Short Money For Khan
By Lem Satterfield
Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer is already making moves to put together a junior welterweight collision between WBA champion Amir Khan and the interim belt-holder Marcos Maidana. The target date is December 11 on HBO. Khan is pushing Golden Boy to stage the fight in the United Kingdom.
In an earlier interview, Khan accussed Maidana of making high financial demands for the fight. Maidana shot back in a later interview and called Khan a liar who was making excuses to avoid the fight. Schaefer confirmed that there have been discussions with Maidana and his team. The big puncher from Argentina has been chasing Khan for nearly a year, but he won't allow himself to get shorted by accepting a lowball deal to make the fight happen.
"We, of course have had some discussions already, and Maidana feels that he is the mandatory there for Khan anyway, and that it's eventually going to happen sometime this year or early next year. And so Maidana feels that there is a certain value to him and a certain amount of money that he deserves," said Schaefer.
Schaefer has to crunch the numbers with HBO, and then factor in the network's license fee with amount of revenue that a Khan-Maidana fight would generate in the UK.
"And again, it's going to be a matter of, with HBO, how much they're going to be willing to put up and the sort of revenues that can be generated in the United Kingdom to see if in fact we can get that fight with Maidana done," said Schaefer.
"Maidana really wants the fight. He's been waiting for this fight. Maidana is not going to accept short money, and he wants that fight and he gave us a number, financially, and we'll be talking and see what we can come up with to make everybody happy."
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.
