Khan targets Mayweather fight to replace Peterson washout
BRITAIN’S Amir Khan is once again targeting a superfight with American Floyd Mayweather after the cancellation of his 19 May rematch with Lamont Peterson.
Khan had previously hoped to face Mayweather before December’s surprise controversial defeat to Peterson forced him to realign his ambitions. But after learning of Peterson’s failed drugs test, essentially clearing Khan of losing that fight, Mayweather, who remains undefeated as a professional, is once again the aim.
“I want to be the best one day and my ambition is to one day fight Floyd Mayweather,” said Khan, who is expected to schedule his next fight for 30 June. “I know I have the strategy to beat him; I have the confidence, the speed, the power.”
Incidentally, Khan’s domestic rival Kell Brook, a potential future opponent for Khan, will fight Carson Jones in Sheffield on 7 July.