Amir Khan: 'Mayweather fight could happen'

[Mayweatherfan11]

Amir Khan has said there is "more than a 50 per cent chance" of him fighting multiple World champion Floyd Mayweather this year.

Khan, who faces Chris Algieri on 30 May, shares an advisor with Mayweather, Al Haymon.

The Bolton fighter says that his "youth, explosiveness, power, speed and movement" could give the man known as 'Money' a real test.

This clip was first broadcast on 5 live Sport on 13 May 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rb7jq

I may be wrong but I think everything points towards Khan being Mayweather's next opponent in September providing he puts in a good performance against Algieri.

[_original_]

It's the logical fight IMO.

[Mayweatherfan11]

It's the logical fight IMO.

Mayweather will get a ton of money whoever is his last opponent in September however I do feel Khan makes more financial sense than Garcia and Thurman. I'd imagine Floyd would do a press tour in the UK too which would be good for UK based fans like myself.

[HEND]

I see Khan is about to make his own "He's going to fight me" advertisement.

[TheCleaner]

Ramadan.... Floyd ain't going to move from his date on the count of khans religion, so why is Amir even talking...

[Hougigo]

Every time he goes on about this, he loses.

[STREET CLEANER]

The Mayweather's have been saying it so this fight might happen. It would make more sense that it happens in the UK but Floyd wants to be the the first to fight in the new Vegas site

[mathed]

Dude, please, just stop talking already. You have an uncaged lion staring you in the face and you are overlooking him for a pipe dream. You will never get a Floyd or Pac fight, ever....DEAL WITH IT!!!!

[boliodogs]

All he has to do is look OK in his next fight and I believe he will get the Mayweather fight. Mayweather is looking for a well paying easy win to go out on and Khan is perfect. Mayweather will probably get his first KO win since Ortiz.

[Scipio2009]

Amir Khan has said there is "more than a 50 per cent chance" of him fighting multiple World champion Floyd Mayweather this year.

Khan, who faces Chris Algieri on 30 May, shares an advisor with Mayweather, Al Haymon.

The Bolton fighter says that his "youth, explosiveness, power, speed and movement" could give the man known as 'Money' a real test.

This clip was first broadcast on 5 live Sport on 13 May 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02rb7jq

I may be wrong but I think everything points towards Khan being Mayweather's next opponent in September providing he puts in a good performance against Algieri.

The September opponent will be Khan (vs Chris Algieri May 29), Kell Brook(c) (vs Frankie Gavin May 30), Keith Thurman (big winner from the first primetime NBC telecast, in front of 4 million homes), or Danny Garcia (victor in the second primetime NBC telecast, in front of 3.5 million homes).

If Khan struggles but Brook looks stellar, Brook gets the fight; if both struggle (but still win), Keith Thurman becomes the lead option and Khan/Brook chase him down behind British PPV money. If Khan and Brook, by some disaster, both lose, Showtime/NBC/CBS/ESPN/Spike/whatever other streams at their disposal will use the full weight of their marketing muscle to build Keith Thurman as the fighter that they need to see.