Tag: Amir Khan

  • After Mayweather & Pacquiao, Who’ll be the Pound-for-Pound King?

    Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao won’t be on the top of the pound-for-pound rankings forever. The lists aren’t moving Mayweather from his perch despite being in jail and no one knowing when his next fight will be, while Pacquiao’s “loss” to Bradley didn’t change too much because it’s hard to ignore the facts of that fight and what everyone saw.

  • Amir Khan – Danny Garcia Becomes Light Welterweight Title Unification Fight

    It’s very rare to see a correct and fair decision being made by one of the boxing governing bodies, but giving Amir Khan his WBA title belt back is one of them, making his fight with Danny Garcia a unification bout for Light Welterweight belts.

  • Amir Khan Looking For a New Opponent Now That the Peterson Fight is Cancelled

    Amir Khan won’t be fighting Lamont Peterson on May 19 because of a positive drug test that Peterson took back in March turned out to be positive. No hearing was done, but Peterson did admit he took the banned substance, which quickly led to cancelling the fight and for Amir Khan to look for a new fight on June 30.

  • Khan – Peterson Fight in Jeopardy; Peterson Tests Positive for Banned Substance

    Amir Khan is supposed to get his rematch against Lamont Peterson on May 19; A chance to win back his Light Welterweight belts and to put the division once and for all behind him with a win over an opponent he feels superior to. An opponent he feels he actually beat in their first fight, back in December. An opponent who has tested positive for performance enhancing drugs.

  • Mayweather Just Two Fights Away For Amir Khan?

    Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao won’t be around forever. I don’t see these two hanging around deep into their 40’s, trying to cling on to their glory days. Pacquiao keeps talking about retiring soon. Mayweather has already taken long breaks from the sport. Boxing needs to looks for its next marquee name. Golden Boy Promotions believe Amir Khan might be it.

  • Floyd Mayweather and His Post-Miguel Cotto Plans

    Floyd Mayweather has getting all kinds of praise recently. As the tensions and hype towards his May 5 fight against Miguel Cotto builds up, Mayweather’s intentions and direction is once again in the spotlight, with most actually looking ahead towards his time after prison, thinking a win is guaranteed against the WBA Super Light Middleweight Champion.

  • Floyd Mayweather and a Future Without a Pacquiao Fight

    Floyd Mayweather has prison to think about after he fights Miguel Cotto. After that? A Manny Pacquiao fight, at the moment, knowing what we know, doesn’t seem likely. Who’s next then? Maybe Sergio Martinez, and Mayweather attempting to win yet another title in another weight class.

  • Floyd Mayweather and the Amir Khan Option in 2013

    Floyd Mayweather still needs to go through Miguel Cotto. He still needs to get through prison time for just under three months. He still needs to, or expected to, finally close a deal and fight Manny Pacquiao. Maybe in late 2012 (November December) or early 2013. Now, according to Golden Boy Promotions, a fight with […]

  • Amir Khan Gets the Peterson Rematch He Deserved

    Amir Khan shouldn’t be without the WBA and IBF belts right now, but he lost points on some shoving calls, some unauthorized person messed around with the scorecards and the judges, resulting in Lamont Peterson causing the upset that night in Washington. Now, after months of back and forth between both camps, the rematch (May 19 in Vegas) is a done deal.

  • Lamont Peterson Seems Scared to Fight Amir Khan Again

    Amir Khan is still fighting to get the rematch he wants against Lamont Peterson, although the bad blood, flowing stronger since the fight and the appeals, isn’t the only thing in the way. Peterson appealing to the WBA, hoping it’ll overturn the rematch order, might prove just how reluctant Peterson is to fight Khan again.