Boxing: Khan mocks Mayweather

LONDON: Amir Khan believes Floyd Mayweather Junior is searching for excuses in order to avoid taking on Manny Pacquiao for the crown of pound-for-pound king. Talks between Mayweather and Pacquiao have previously collapsed over the timing of blood tests before the bout, but recently the Pacquiao camp have started to make conciliatory noises on the subject. But Khan claims that if Pacquiao did give his consent, the American would find a new way of dodging the battle. “The thing is, if Manny says: ‘Yeah, I’ll fight, let’s do the test’, then it’ll be something else,” he said. “’Oh, the purse split isn’t fair’, ‘Oh, the gloves’, ‘Oh, the ring’s too small’, so I feel there’s always an excuse. He tries to control the situation how he wants it, that’s why if the fight with us came to England, he wouldn’t like that.”

Published in The Express Tribune, October 18^th, 2011.