How much longer can Haymon protect Khan?

[Dirk Diggler UK]

Not really protecting him, Amir Khan has choices with Haymon, the fighters fight who they and their team choose to fight. You can't really force fighters into a fight, either they accepted or they don't. Same goes for the other Promoters, they can't force their fighter to take fights.

All the Blame goes on Khan and his team, not Haymon! Khan is the one who decided to play it safe in hope that Mayweather pick him and clearly that backfired!

Why is the assumption that Haymon is protecting Khan, when the reality seems to be Khan protecting Khan?

Al Haymon isn't a promoter; at it's very root his role is generally as a fighter's manager or adviser to a fighter's manager. Haymon's sole job is to maximize the money/opportunities available for the fighters that he works with.

Outside of a fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr (which Floyd can decide to make or not make on his on whim), Amir Khan has access to every welterweight fighter worth fighting, sans Timothy Bradley and Manny Pacquiao, all in showdowns that would put great money in his pocket.

It's not Haymon's fault that Khan doesn't want any of those fights; Khan, at this point, makes his own decisions, with Haymon doing his best to facilitate things for him.

Agreed. I guess Khan deserves some credit for taking responsibility for his own cowardice unlike Leo Santa Cruz who lays all the blame on Haymon.

[daggum]

as long as pillow punchers exist, khan will exist as a fringe contender

[Luilun]

Wilder is due to fight Povetkin December/January-February 2016 (negotiations are due to begin in October, with the possible purse bid coming by November if talks are unfruitful. Depending on when the camps start out, both fighters would be 10 weeks from the fight) and Klistchko-Wilder is due after that (No idea how long a deal he signed with HBO, but the Fury fight would be his third fight on HBO, with enough time for a fourth fight before possibly moving to Wilder, so TV considerations won't be much of an issue; the bulk of his money coming from Germany also doesn't leave him in a position for HBO to **** him either)

When I see it I'll believe it until then I think Wilder fights another Wino

[Furn]

He's been fighting the same guys Pac, Thurman, Porter and Bradley have faced recently.

None of the top guys at WW are doing any differently.

[Deevel916]

Call me crazy, but at this point is seems more like Al is protecting Floyd from Khan. He knows Khan has a style that can give Floyd problems that he doesnt want to face at this point of his career. If not he would be fighting Khan and not Berto as Khan is the much bigger money fight.

[Scipio2009]

Agreed. I guess Khan deserves some credit for taking responsibility for his own cowardice unlike Leo Santa Cruz who lays all the blame on Haymon.

Leo Santa Cruz is in a different position, because, without Haymon, what is Santa Cruz's real pull?

[Larry the boss]

I think his order or protection just expired