Roger Mayweather Says Floyd Will Fight Maidana, Not Khan

That makes two Mayweather's now - Jeff and Roger who essentially say what I have been saying all along. Khan is a bum and his popularity if a myth and any announcing of him as an opponent will be met with severe backlash. LMAO at Amir throwing away a year of his career for nothing. Link to external story can't be posted here. Can be located on a certain site boxing news 24 .com By Chris Williams: Roger Mayweather, the uncle for Floyd Mayweather Jr., is saying that Marcos Maidana will be getting the fight with Mayweather Jr. on May 3rd and not Amir Khan. If this is true, then Khan will have won the poll on Mayweather’s website for nothing, because Khan defeated Maidana in the poll 57% to 43%, and he’s talking as if he’s got the fight in the bag now. But Mayweather Jr. is someone that can change his mind, and it could be that he decided that Maidana is the bigger money fight than facing Khan on Cinco de Mayo and risking that the fight does poorly. “I think it was going to be Amir Khan, but they say Maidana,” Roger said to ***************. Who “they” is still unclear. This is going to be a huge blow to Khan’s career if he doesn’t get the Mayweather fight, because then he’ll have to finally get back in the ring and face one of Golden Boy Promotions fighters like Keith Thurman or Devon Alexander in order to get his career moving once again. Khan has been out of the ring since last April, just waiting on the word that he’s been picked out for the Mayweather fight. It makes a lot of sense for Mayweather to give Maidana the fight regardless of the fact that Khan won the poll at the mayweatherpromotions.com website, because the date of the fight is better suited for Maidana, he won 4 of the independent polls by huge margins, and he’s got a world title in his possession. Maidana deserves the fight for what he’s accomplished in the ring in the past 2 years. With Khan, he’s not done a whole lot in a number of years. Based on merits, Maidana comes out ahead of Khan by a wide margin for deserving the fight with Mayweather. And if you look at it from a business standpoint, Maidana is the better guy to be fighting Mayweather on Cinco de Mayo compared to Khan. By Khan not fighting, he’s thrown away a year of his career and has nothing to show for it at all other than him having trained hard with his trainer Virgil Hunter while waiting.

Comments (20)

didnt maidana vs broner do 1.3mill in PPV? if thats true then its a no brainer who floyd will choose

12y ago

Hitman932

Floyd wants the easier fight he knows khan will be there all night cause floyd can't punch like danny. Floyd can't punch like Willie Limond or Michael Gomez either now can he?

12y ago

FerFAL

Catch him doing what? Like opening the door of the WC when Floyd's taking a leak, that sort of thing. Oh boxing? ... :D No, no way man.

12y ago

Juof

Floyd wants the easier fight he knows khan will be there all night cause floyd can't punch like danny.

12y ago

Hitman932

Khan vs Thurman will be hilarious while it lasts. It would make for a funny 30 second commercial on what happens to you when you don't eat your Wheaties for breakfast.

12y ago

Hitman932

If Khan had fought and defeated Alexander he would have won a title belt and earned the Mayweather fight and I would have no problem with him fighting Mayweather. Some Khan fans try to say Alexander ran from Khan but the exact opposite is true. Alexander was ready to fight Khan. It was Khan who backed out of the fight for fear he would lose to Alexander and blow the Mayweather fight. Exactly. Khan has to feel like a chump especially after seeing Porter school Alexander. Really Alexander is the best match up for Khan at 147 anyway. Alexander has speed but not a whole lot of power so he can't KO Khan as easily as everyone else. Alexander is also sloppy with his punches like Khan and folds up mentally when things don't go his way. Anyone else at 147 - boy Amir Khan is going to be wishing it was only Alexander in the other corner. There is no way anyone can say Alexander ran from Khan. Khan did what he always does - floats some bull**** idea about a fight in Dubai that will make his opponent rich - then a serious offer never materializes - or if it does it's a typical Khan offer of 90% for Amir and 10% for the defending champion. Amir Khan and his dad have lowballed and attempted to shortchange every single potential opponent they have ever dealt with. Then chastised them for turning down their insulting offers.

12y ago

megadeth

Catch him doing what? Classic!!:popcorn:

12y ago

megadeth

As much as I think my Maidana deserve the fight more, I'd prefer Khan since I think it's more difficult fight for Floyd. They can bill Mayweather/Maidana as "Big Bro's Revenge?"

12y ago

Cinci_Champ

If Mayweather picks Maidana I would buy the pay-per-view. Not because of Mayweather but because I watch all of Maidana's fights. ya ya we all know everyone has been buying his ppv "because of his opponents" whatever makes u feel better about it lol u sound like someone cheating on their wife or something

12y ago

dc3383

Some of us have been saying since the beginning that Floyd knows Madianna is an easier fight. He does not mind stepping on Bronner to take this fight. I think all the pagentry and BS aside Floyd knows damn well he will fight madainna. Floyd knows Kahn could catch him Catch him doing what?

12y ago

billeau2

12y ago

Jim_Tom

Khan vs Thurman will be hilarious while it lasts. I would love to watch that fight and they better have it on Mayweather's undercard

12y ago

MindBat

Good. Time to avenge lil' bro's loss and show the world how to beat a great fighter. .

12y ago

dc3383

Good for Maidana he deserves the payday, but I think people are overestimating him as a draw. This fight will do Guerrero like numbers. Most casual fight fans have never heard of him even after Broner and it will be hard to change that with about 10 weeks until fight night. They said the same thing going into the Canelo fight(note I'm saying this fight comes close to those sells)and it worked. I'm sure Floyd won't do what he did with Guerrero with dojng absolutely no press tour or anything and that fight still did 870k-1 mil + depending on who you believe.

12y ago

QballLobo

12y ago

radioraheem

ESPN is a primarily American network. Doesn't matter. The ESPN Poll received a total of 67,269 votes. 37% Amir Khan 63% Marcos Maidana But 21,869 of those votes were international votes. So the international percentage was 38% Amir Khan, and 62% Marcos Maidana. So one-third of the voters were international.

12y ago

rayb112

Floyd about to duck Khan to fight another mexican styled, plodding boxer who's only chance is a shot he'll never land no shocker Floyd likes as less pressure as possible and Madiana brings zero pressure, as he will never land a decent punch let alone a jab you sound crazy...

12y ago

bose

http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/shame.jpg

12y ago

Eskay

The funny thing is, this video was shot weeks ago....LOL. Before a poll, before Khan won the poll, etc. ****back is notorious for cutting up interviews and posting them over months. How do you even know that? Or are you just making it up?

12y ago

Dirk_Diggler_UK

I'm sure Floyd knows about every poll including the ESPN poll that had triple the votes with Maidana leading bya huge margin. ESPN is a primarily American network.

12y ago