If Brook gets the Mayweather fight Khan only has himself to blame

[MrRolltide91]

He is. It's embarrassing how much he wants to be Floyd.



There would be a difference. But as Eddie Hearn said, Khan would also cost more and probably be harder to deal with because he's a girly diva.

He said he thinks Mayweather needs to prove himself by fighting him

if Floyd were to choose brook, khan might cry in his bedroom all day

[Larry the boss]

if Floyd were to choose brook, khan might cry in his bedroom all day

I hope they record it

[Dirk Diggler UK]

I hope they record it

I'd be able to tug one out to the recording.

[Larry the boss]

I'd be able to tug one out to the recording.

lol.....Floyd would deserve fighter of the year just for trolling Khan

[Robbie Barrett]

Mayweather usually picks opponents that have a world title. Khan would be guaranteed a Mayweather fight if he had beat Brook and also would have had his two biggest paydays, now he could lose both if Mayweather-Brook is made.

[Larry the boss]

Mayweather usually picks opponents that have a world title. Khan would be guaranteed a Mayweather fight if he had beat Brook and also would have had his two biggest paydays, now he could lose both if Mayweather-Brook is made.

Exactly,he had 2 chances to fight for that IBF title and turned both down.

[LacedUp]

lol.....Floyd would deserve fighter of the year just for trolling Khan

Fighter of the decade rather..

That is, if he can outshine the accomplishments of Amir himself.

One could fear Mayweather dilutes his legacy.

[Scipio2009]

Khan is obviously the bigger name in America (than Brook).

But I'm thinking the angle for the Brook fight would be that it was for the undisputed title which wouldn't make that much of a difference in sales since Khan didn't exactly do himself any favours with his last terrible performance either.

They could also remind people that this was the guy who beat Porter who beat "Lil Bro"

No US fan is going to make the PPV buy decision on Khan being in the main event with Mayweather, especially after the biggest audience to see Khan fight (outside of his fight with Luis Collazo on Floyd's undercard) just saw him turn in a piss poor performance; to sell it as anything else is silly.

The "angle", if you will, is that Brook is 1)in a position to maximize the potential revenue to be brought in from the UK with Sky Box Office and 2)Mayweather-Brook can be sold, stateside, as an actually competitive fight; whether it ends up actually being competitive is on the two fighters.

Kell Brook has blown out every fighter that he's ever been put in a boxing ring with, the 8-4 victory over Shawn Porter being the standout performance to US fans (even the first Carson Jones fight, which folks seem to want to give him **** for, was a fight that he won pretty comfortably imo).

To that you add Brook being massive at the weight, being able to box coming/going, him being able to switch hit, and his youth, and you've got a showdown that you can have talked up on ESPN for the full fight bill, in ways that no one could legitimately say of a Khan fight (though I believe that Floyd still finds a way to beat Brook, I couldn't honestly give you a skeleton of how the fight would play out; a Floyd-Khan fight is pretty well settled, in that Floyd takes 1-2 rounds to nail down Khan's timing, walking Khan into **** over the next 3-4 rounds before closing the show/skunking him down the back stretch).

[bigjavi973]

Why would Mayweather fight for an IBF title, given that he has the major ones at 147. Besides, he said he was vacating the belts after the Pacquiao fights. So, you're saying he is going to vacate WBC, WBA, & WBO, and fight for IBF instead. Okay, gotcha.

To become the undisputed welterweight champion.

Yes he said he was going to vacate the belts. If he keeps the WBO belt, hell keep the WBA/WBC 147 titles & vacates his 154 straps.

If he vacates WBO title, I see him keeping maybe the WBA/WBC 154 lbs titles & WBA/WBC 147 lbs titles.

[bigjavi973]

What the B.S part is is the WBO plan on stripping Floyd, so it doesn't seem he has a chance to hold all four at once.... ****** B.S politics

I actually like what the WBO does here. It doesn't let a fighter "baby sit" titles in another weight class while being champ in another.