AMIR KHAN MAY MISS OUT AGAIN AS PACQUIAO LOOKS AT DANNY GARCIA FIGHT
By Ronnie Nathanielsz
PhilBoxing.com
Tue, 18 Aug 2015
World Boxing Council welterweight Silver champion Amir Khan?s dream of facing eight division world champion Manny Pacquiao after being rejected three times by undefeated pound for pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr may be shattered once again as Pacquiao is reportedly looking at a title fight against Danny Garcia.
The chief proponent of a Garcia fight is trainer Freddie Roach who was quoted as saying ?The fight we want is Danny Garcia? claiming that a fight against the undefeated American who knocked out Khan would be ?the easiest fight in the world.?
Pacquiao himself is aching for a rematch with Mayweather even though Floyd has insisted his September 12 showdown with Andre Berto at the MG Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas will be his last which Roach refuses to believe.
The celebrated Hall of Fame trainer said Mayweather who is expected to beat Berto handily and equal heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano?s record of 49-0 will face Pacquiao again because there is ?too much money to be made if he fights Manny again.?
Pacquiao who has made a seemingly amazing recovery from surgery for a tear in his right shoulder rotator cuff suffered in his May 2 ?Fight of the Century? against Mayweather which Pacquiao claimed hampered him in the fight, is likely to return to the ring early next year and is hoping that a win over Garcia will set-up another megabuck fight against Mayweather although it admittedly won?t draw the same attention and the kind of money they made in the first contest which was by all accounts, a disappointment.
Roach claimed that Pacquiao?s shoulder is healing well after surgery and that he?s been swimming and playing a little basketball and should be ready to resume training in three to six months.
Top Rank promoter Bob Arum was in the meantime jetting to London to meet with the handlers of Amir Khan to look into the possibility of a Pacquiao-Khan fight in the middle east which is a lucrative market Arum wishes to break in to.
Khan and Pacquiao met in London early this year and agreed to fight sometime this year but the Mayweather fight got in the way and Khan is hoping there won?t be any more obstacles to his facing former stablemate and sometime sparring partner Pacquiao.
Khan has predicted that if he fights Pacquiao its bound to be a terrific fight.
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