By Ryan Burton
Promoter Gary Shaw sent BoxingScene an email to respond to comments that trainer Freddie Roach made on BoxingScene.com's radio show, Leave It In The Ring . Mark Vester ran an article highlighting some of Roach's comments pertaining to Amir Khan being a far better fighter than the other top names at 140-pounds.
One of the comments made by Roach was, "Bradley is talking about fighting Pacquiao but he better worry about Amir first. (Amir) is way better than any of these guys out there and he has a lot more amateur experience. If these guys are so good, then why didn't they go to the Olympics and why didn't they win a medal."
Roach went on to say, "I fear nobody in that division, whoever (Golden Boy CEO) Richard Schaefer offers me, I'll take. The 140 pound division is tough right now, we just have to get these guys to the table to fight us."
Shaw found these quotes humorous and responded by saying, "Tell Freddie he knows better, he is way to smart to be saying what he is saying. They only want two things. First they want to fight either smaller 135 pound guys (like Juan Manuel Marquez) or inferior skilled guys. Second is that they (Golden Boy) only want to fight in-house, as (Top Rank CEO) Bob Arum is Golden Boy's mentor."
Shaw will only need two seconds to make a Bradley-Khan fight. His email closed with this remark - "Tim Bradley stands ready, willing, and able, to kick Amir Con's ass"
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