Rumour: Khan's Next Opponent Will Be Mosley, Dec 7

This rumour is doing the rounds. It started with fightnews.com from what I can make out.

Good opponent for Khan I reckon and a decent enough pay day for Mosley.

Khan needs to win next time out after two losses and he should do so with relative ease given Shane is now gun shy, but this is Khan and he never makes it easy for himself.

Genuine matchup or very disappointing from Khan?

Tired of seeing Mosley now

This does nothing for Khan what happened to Devon???

Won't be able to tell really till the fight.

Khan needs to win desperately and Mosley offers a name. If he stays gun shy, and Khan should be able to keep him that way if he relentlessly fires out the jab and stays and range avoiding a tear-up, this should be a fine fight for Khan.

Though I doubt he'll get much credit regardless of the performance.

Devon's dangerous.

Devon would have been a much better fight.

Hearn was stirring the pot re Khan-Brook in 2014. Maybe this is to help tee that up? I dunno....

Alexander won't fight Khan in Saudi Arabia although Khan says he's willing to fight in the USA. The winner would have to face Brook as mandatory or vacate.

Khan/Mosley...may as well watch Wlad/Holyfield for depressing match-ups

Does not do a lot for me as a match to be honest. Shane is done now and has been for quite some time. Suppose the only element that could provide a bit of excitement is Shane has a dig and so any fighter in with Khan who carries a bit of pop is never out of contention. As others have said the Alexander match would have been far more appealing.

Anyone else at khans level this is a ridiculous fight but given his last fight I give Mosley half a chance

Devon was meant to be being lined up for December. Would there be enough time for Ramadan, a week or so's recovery, 6 week training camp, Mosley fight, recovery, 8 week training camp and then Devon in December?

SSM was shot when he fought Manny 2 years ago and he's declined even more since then. This is similar to his victory over MAB. If fight with Devon can't be made fair enough but there has to be better options out there than SSM. Even rematch with Maidana at 147 would be decent scrap.

Just checked and Ramadan ends today, so you could still fit in 2 fights.....

Mosley via TKO round 3

Ouch!

Though it does beg the question, if, and it's a big if, Mosley does have one old punch left in the tank and floors Khan, where does Amir go from there? David Price style career over?

Mosley is a finisher for sure but he aint got the engine anymore. With Khans chin you never know. I can see Khan making this a FOTY contender against a fighter as ancient as Mosley.

but either way it looks bad if Khan wins with ease and it looks VERY bad if Khan should loose somehow.

I heard a rumour from a friend yesterday that Khan and Mayweather are lined up for a summer '14 fight over here in the UK if they both remain unscathed till then. Not exactly a 'new' revelation, but my friend is not prone to hyperbole at all, is very close friends with one smallish promoter in the city, a fairly close acquaintance of another 'bigger' promoter and mates with numerous 'faces' in the London boxing scene. The rumour sweeping the gyms is that talks for a UK fight between Amir and Floyd are way more advanced than previously thought. Never know with boxing though, it could all be rubbish or one of them could well lose and scupper the fight but he was adamant that Mayweather's team had made it clear they were prepared to come over and fight in the UK.

My big scepticism about it would be that fact that Floyd would lose all that money from the casinos in Vegas, and he has hardly hidden his motivation for fighting in the past. I am not sure even a stadium fight over here would make up the shortfall? Maybe it would.

Anyway, Khan v Mosley? Khan UD having spent most of the fight just out of reach of the ancient old warrior.

Khan hasn't had only two months between opponents since 2008, so can't se him fitting both in. But it would get his career back on track.

There is something very wrong with the thought of Khan being the first man to beat the great Floyd Mayweather.

Should Khan pull it off you won't hear the end of it but if the rumours today are true then I have the funny feeling Mosley would pancake Khan before hand.

i can not see the point in this for Khan

if he wins it will be another Barerra debacle
and if he doesn't win then serious questions are going to be asked

this is also a highly dangerous tune up if that is what they are thinking it may be

I've been hearing similar things, Tino.

Some will probably suggest that a run of Molina, Diaz and now a shot to bits Mosley means that Golden Boy are losing faith in Khan and don't have much confidence in him fighting the big boys anymore, and there might be a hint of truth in that I suppose, but I get the impression more that they are just keeping him out of harm's way by feeding him what should be, in theory, guaranteed wins until next year when a fight with Mayweather can be made.

In an ideal world, Khan would be way, way down the list of potential opponents for Mayweather assuming he beats Alvarez, but it's pretty clear that Golden Boy, for whatever reason, would like to match them at some stage. Schaeffer has said as much, many times over. Golden Boy have obviously made big strides in the UK in recent years, what with their affiliation with Khan and now the way they're looking after Ogogo, and presumably they know that Khan offers the biggest name on these shores to match up with the biggest name on theirs, which is Floyd.

I have the same misgivings as anyone else about whether a UK fight (or any fight) between Khan and Mayweather could happen, but the more time passes, the more I'm starting to think that the powers that be are trying to build towards it.

One thing's for sure, it'd take an absolutely crazy package to prompt Mayweather to come to the UK to fight. But as we know with him ("I don't fight for a legacy - I fight for that cheque. I'm in the cheque cashing business"), money will talk.

Wish Shane would just retire, getting beat by fighters like Khan who he would have destroyed a few years ago is damaging his legacy and potentially his health.

I'm starting to hear the Khan/Mayweather rumblings do the rounds. It would be a massacre. Floyd is too adaptable in every sense and he could beat Khan one of about 5 ways.

The SSM fight wouldn't be so bad if it was a build up to say an Alexander or Brook fight. For me, Khan should be building up slowly to see if his new trainer can make some impact. But, as a set up for a Mayweather fight? That's a joke.

I remember Alexander was mentioned as a possible Mayweather opponent before Guererro got the fight. It sounds like its being set up between Khan and Alexander to see who gets the shot at him. Both are utterly undeserving.

Floyd is running out of opponents after Canelo (provided of course that he beats him). I hope he doesn't cruise through his showtime deal with substandard fights like this though. Saying that, I'll probably still watch it!

Yeh ill still watch as well because khan could pose a threat for about two rounds ala Mosley.

My concern with this supposed "tune" up fight with Mosley, is that for the first couple of rounds, Mosley hits like a tank. He pounded margarito, nearly decked mayweather twice. If he hits khan the same way then its goodnight.

and with that we will be saying goodnight to khans career as a pro boxer.

i think Mosley knocks him out, don't know why, but just have a feeling that he knows that if he lands, khan will go. He still has speed without the engine....if he turns it on early, then khan gets blasted out. After all,Mosley has a granite chin so will clearly take a punch with Khan just to land one of his own bombs.

Is very difficult because if, as I expect him to do, Floyd comes through the Alvarez fight his options are starting to look a bit thin on the ground. If he goes for Matthyse or Garcia he will again be accused of picking on guys smaller than himself and there is nobody at welter that gets the pulses racing particular.

Given this the chance to fight overseas and fill a football stadium may give him the motivation and desire that a fairly middling/undeserving opponent would otherwise not provide.

Isn't Timothy Bradley the natural opponent for Mayweather? Surely this is the matchup everyone should be talking about...

Not sure you could criticise Floyd if he went for the Garcia - LM winner, both would push for it and be deserving imho. After that a huge fight in the UK could be possible, Floyd must fancy it being so close to the end of his career.

As for Khan - SSM.... deary me. Someone described the MAB fight as a debacle, well it has never been as such in Khan's eyes and he'd view this the same way. A win over a legend. Sad really.

very dull fight.

mosley has been dne for years and khan is trying to build to a fight with mayweather. this is not the way to do it.

People said that SSM was passed it when he fought Floyd, even more shot when he fought Manny so there is no way Khan should be fighting him. It's no an anti-Khan rant but I really think it's a joke fight if I'm honest and as some have said if he wins he gets no kudos and if he loses his career is in tatters.

If he wins then its a name (but for the proper boxing fans is a joke and not a name). If he loses then he lost against a big named fighter who nearly decked Mayweather, dropped Pacquioa and crushed Margarito..(to us boxing fans he should retire as he lost against a very poor old man way past his prime)

Dropped Pacquiao?

mobilemaster8 wrote:If he wins then its a name (but for the proper boxing fans is a joke and not a name). If he loses then he lost against a big named fighter who nearly decked Mayweather, dropped Pacquioa and crushed Margarito..(to us boxing fans he should retire as he lost against a very poor old man way past his prime)

He landed one decent shot against Floyd. Floyd held, kept his composure and arguably won the round then.

Dropped Manny, maybe you should watch that fight again...

I was being sarcastic by the way....

Im just saying, if Khan loses to Mosley, the arm chair fan will be thinking:

"well this Mosley is no mug, he nearly dropped Mayweather twice early on and he also dropped Pacquiao (i know it was a slip, but was still called a KD)"

If khan wins then its a case of the exact same above.

But for us REAL boxing fans, we know its a joke bo matter what.

Pedro147 wrote:People said that SSM was passed it when he fought Floyd, even more shot when he fought Manny so there is no way Khan should be fighting him. It's no an anti-Khan rant but I really think it's a joke fight if I'm honest and as some have said if he wins he gets no kudos and if he loses his career is in tatters.

Don't worry Pedro, Az's not around anymore so you don't need to justify your objectivity anymore!!

Mosley couldnt be any worse than Julio Diaz and look at the state Diaz had Khan in

Mosley is slurring his speech now....I mean for heaven sake......He's finished what's the point ???

Boxing is hurting itself again If true.........

It's a Warren trick digging up dead Hofers and making out your new charge is one If he beats him....

Won't watch it..........

Fighting the shadow of Mosley's ghost...yeah, thats the fight I want to see

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Mosley is slurring his speech now....I mean for heaven sake......He's finished what's the point ???

Boxing is hurting itself again If true.........

It's a Warren trick digging up dead Hofers and making out your new charge is one If he beats him....

Won't watch it..........

Im shocked that you wont be supporting Mosley, seeing as you constantly rave about American fighter ad nauseam  

Did I say I wouldn't be supporting him...

Yeah I'm showing this one a clean pair of heals.

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Did I say I wouldn't be supporting him...

Well saying you wont watch isnt very supportive....Duhhhhhh

Reborn-DeeMcK-Reborn wrote:

TRUSSMAN66 wrote:Did I say I wouldn't be supporting him...

Well saying you wont watch isnt very supportive....Duhhhhhh

If you say so..

You could forgiven Khan if it was his first fight after Garcia or maybe even as his second fight, but he really should be looking for someone a little more impressive, and I don't believe for one minute Alexander is ducking Khan. Khan knows that a Floyd fight is there for him so I expect its he who would be reluctant to take the fight

The only thing Mosley gives you is rounds, as he still has a great chin and Khan isn't a huge puncher, so unless his punch resistance doesn't leave him Khan should be allowed to show a couple things Hunter is working with him on

Mosley may be a shell of the great fighter he once was, but his victory over Cano at least proves he belongs among the malignaggi's etc of the welterweight division. He did look horribly slow in that fight and not very powerful but he managed to get the W. He also put a lot of pressure on Canelo but ultimately wasn't big enough to strong enough to make an impression whereas he could to khan

So disappointing choice, and a lose-lose situation, but Mosley could still cause him problems

Khan just needs to box and he wins on pts, tries to take Mosely out and if Khan walks into one he's a gonner,Mosely's finished but he will still be able to dig.
Khan's never been hit by a full blown welter yet, lets see what happens.