Amir Khan just won’t give up.
For some reason Khan can’t get over Floyd Mayweather picking Andre Berto for his September 12th fight. Khan is truly acting like a person that is friend-zoned in a relationship but refuses to break communictaion with the other person. Khan is exhibiting all of the signs:
- Talking publicly about said person eventhough they aren’t mentioning him.
- Offering backhanded compliments (aka throwing shade) to the person who was chose.
- Continuing to mention the other person with hopes that they will eventually see everything they are missing out on.
- Name calling. Eventhough they’d still be with them if asked.
This time Amir Khan vented his frustration with Floyd Mayweather ducking him and blamed it on how well of a boxer he is in the ring.
“The reason Floyd Mayweather is scared is because of my fighting style,” Khan told Sporting News. “My fighting style is a guy who comes to fight, has a huge heart, has a very high work rate and that’s something Floyd Mayweather doesn’t want. Floyd Mayweather wants to end his career unbeaten and have an unbeaten record. I think he fears of losing it to Amir Khan and that’s why he doesn’t want the fight.
“Now, everywhere I go people are talking about that one fight. You got the likes of Sugar Ray Leonard, Tommy Hearns, Mike Tyson. All these guys are saying Floyd Mayweather should fight Amir Khan because there’s something there. They see that I can really beat Floyd Mayweather with the speed and the movement.
It seems to me that Floyd Mayweather just doesn’t want it because he doesn’t want that hard fight,” Khan said. “He doesn’t want to be pushed and maybe he’s getting older now and he might need an easy fight. Maybe that’s what it is. But I can’t disrespect my friend, Andre Berto. We train together.”
Later on in the interview he reverted back to Floyd Mayweather and let loose another mini-rant:
“I remember the time he picked Maidana over me even though I won the votes on the internet and he still didn’t pick me,” Khan said. “At the moment, from everything I see and everything fight fans should realize is that Floyd is a liar. First when he said I’m going to let the fans pick who I fight, he didn’t what he said he was going to do because the fight fans voted and they all voted Amir Khan. And he still picked Maidana, someone who I’ve already beaten, put down and gave him a beating and beat him in a better style that Floyd Mayweather beat him.
“Floyd is running scared because of the size of me, the hand speed I have, the power and the speed. He just doesn’t want any of me. He doesn’t want anything to do with me. He just wants to try and avoid every little thing. I think he just wants to get that contract over and have the unbeaten record until he retires.”
If Floyd comes back for fight #50 it’ll be for a Pacquiao rematch or someone with a much bigegr name than Amir Khan. It’s time for Khan to throw on some smooth R&B, grab a glass of Moscato & get over Floyd.