Mayweather CONFIRMS Khan as Next Opponent

This is all just a media/fan reaction test done by Team Mayweather. There's a scheme here that seems fairly obvious to me. 1). A month or two before making an official decision, put out an opponents name in the media and make it sound like it's a done deal. 2). Team Mayweather wages in on the interest/reactions/opinions of the media/fans, focusing in on who will help make the most money. "Devon Alexander is next", anyone?? Alexander still ISN'T next, there's no money OR interest in him. As far as announcing it so quickly, people eventually forget the things that Team Mayweather said before officially announcing who he's fighting next, probably because they're so damn glad he's NOT fighting the one they originally said he was. A "whew" moment, if you will. And if there IS an interest/upside with money, they have nothing to lose by throwing someones name out there because they end up fighting him anyway. It's a win-win situation for TM. Common sense says - we all know that they (GBP/TM) always make an official announcement when it's a sealed deal and the papers are drawn up and signed. OR, FMJ tweets it himself on Twitter/Twatter. Right now, they're just looking to see if Mayweather/Khan is a fight people will pay PPV $$$ to see. Nice call, just testing the waters and the best way to do this is to leak the story and see how the public react.

If Evil Genius "made this up", then maybe he'd be an idiot. However these "rumors" were not his and they didn't materialize out of thin air. They're out there for a reason. And maybe the backlash provided by posting it may prevent such a horrible travesty from actually occurring. I'm not talking about the TS, I'm talking about the responses. Perhaps "trust, but verify" should be the new standard for NSB. The over reaction to unsubtstantiated reports, particulalrly when one or two names are mentioned, is getting a little ridiculous. I doubt the backlash from a few posters on NSB would stop SHowtime from putting on a profitable event.

This thread should never be deleted. It shows how idiotic some "respected" posters truly are. I mean could you at least get corroborating reports from multiple sources before going off the deep end. If Evil Genius "made this up", then maybe he'd be an idiot. However these "rumors" were not his and they didn't materialize out of thin air. They're out there for a reason. And maybe the backlash provided by posting it may prevent such a horrible travesty from actually occurring.

This thread should never be deleted. It shows how idiotic some "respected" posters truly are. I mean could you at least get corroborating reports from multiple sources before going off the deep end.

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Bum of the month club?

Maywesther hasn't confirmed anything. There is no credible source confirming this fight in fact. Stop wasting time speculating about bs.

Like I said many times over the last week or so, I bet Mayweather was the one controlling the destiny of a Khan-Alexander fight, Devon should have or Team Alexander (Cunningham) should have signed and KO khan when they had the chance, instead of play acting like he brings anything other than the belt to the table. At the end of the day Khan is the money man and no matter how many times he gets KO he would still be an attractive option to someone like Mayweather.

Lol this is just too funny on many different levels.

i think that Floyd Mayweather will fight in Las Vegas till the end of his career this is an eazy fight eazy money eazy win Eazy one: Mayweather vs Khan ;)

The online sources are saying Las Vegas not Wembley.. I remember some talk previously about the tax payments in UK for the Mayweather-Khan fight being too expensive, they'd have to pay a lot more tax in UK than in Las Vegas..

If Floyd really offers Khan the fight,Khan should take it..Easy money..

Not terribly disappointed but there was definitely better options available. Floyd has put himself in a position where he has to fight guys that will help push the ppv #'s, unfortunately Amir is one of those guys. To be honest, it doesn't matter who he fights, I'm watching either way so I'm not going to sit around & complain like a little BEEE-Otch!! I don't care for Chavez jr but I'll watch his fights, don't like the circumstances behind the Pac fight BUT I'M WATCHING!!

This thread is a joke or something that TMT puts up to gauge interest in Floyd's future fights. Wake up people and stop being fooled into paying to watch Floyd's boring fights. I never paid to watch any Floyd PPV ever and just watch his free week-after replays. To me he is only worth watching for free, and I feel better that I made the right decision not to pay for it. There are tons of other boxers out there who are way better and more entertaining than Floyd. Floyd is only as great because of the number of people he is able to fool to watch him fight a running game. Why don't you TMT people put up a poll on your website on who the public want to see, rather than picking a cherry over and over again? Maybe I'd get interested and change my mind, and you can make more money?

If its not from Floyds official Twitter than its not confirmed. Plus why would they announce in October for his May fight so much will happen between now and the end of the year for his next opponent to be created. I quite sure they want Khan but they have to know Khan needs beat Devon for it to be credible he just can't wait on the sidelines and get the fight.

lol :bsflag:

The Floyd yuppies have already started to change their stance. If this would become official, Floyd fans will make Khan out to be a legit opponent. If they did it with Marquez who came up nearly 3 divisions and they still protect Floyd for that move to this day, they sure will against Khan.I was always against it and I'm still against. But if he beats Alexander than I might change stance. How is saying "oh well it is what it is" changing stance? Do you think I control his career? A few posts later ..... Floyd fans never fail! :lol1:follow the debate that was going on

Petterson was on peds and won via dodgy decision, only a moron would count that as a legit win. At the same time you are trying to discredit Jmms and bradleys wins over pac Be consistent with ur arguments u hypocrit The difference is Bradley vs Pacquiao wasn't a close fight at all. So Bradley didn't win ****. If you actually think he won your just a troll. JMM vs Pacquiao 3 was a very close fight, Bradley/Pacquiao wasn't. If JMM got the win in the third fight there would have been absolutely no problem by me. It could have went either way. And true, Peterson was on PEDs, but Khan still got KO'd by Garcia. I don't even dislike Khan which I'm sure that's what you think, I find his fighting style to be exciting it's just what has he exactly done to deserve a Floyd fight? He has some good wins over Judah & Paulie but he hasn't beaten any elite fighters. He beat Barrera when he was at the very end of his career. Pacquiao might of got KO'd by Marquez, but he still deserves the fight more than anyone else due to his dominance over a 7 year straight period. Pacquiao earned the right to that fight years ago. He was the #1 P4P guy for a long time. Now Floyd is trying to pretend Pacquiao doesn't deserve the fight to avoid it.

I don't know anything about this but my best guess is that Floyd will fight Khan next and Khan will not fight until then. If Khan does have a fight before next May it will be with the softest of the soft. Someone even Khan can't lose to. I hope I am wrong but I don't think there will be a Khan-Alexander fight because Alexander is way too dangerous. Mayweather-Khan is the fight Khan wants and it's also the fight Schaefer wants and the fight Floyd Sr wants.

the daily mail isn't a great source to get information from they make up BS to sell papers believe it when its announced officially on either guys proper twitter until than for what i know khan is still on for alexander in december They do, but not usually the sports pages. In saying that, I don't believe this either.