British boxing star Amir Khan (29-3, 19 KOs) will be fighting former two division world champion Devon Alexander (26-2, 14 KOs) on December 13th at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Before the Alexander fight was agreed on, Khan had been saying that Alexander and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero were two of the names that they were looking at for his December fight. However, Guerrero says that the fight against Khan was never even offered to him.
“The [Khan] fight was never offered to me,” Guerrero said on his twitter.
Some boxing fans were under the impression that the 31-year-old Guerrero had priced himself out for the Khan fight, because otherwise they felt he would be the guy that Khan would be facing instead of Alexander. But with Guerrero now saying he was never even approached for the fight, it tells you that Khan’s management were looking in a completely different direction altogether.
Alexander may have been their guy from the start.
It makes you wonder why Guerrero, the arguably bigger name than Alexander, wasn’t approached by Khan’s management for the fight. A Khan-Guerrero fight would clearly be a more interesting fight than Khan-Alexander.
Could it be that Guerrero’s aggressive fighting style, powerful body punching, and excellent inside fighting skills make him too dangerous for a Khan fight? Guerrero does a great job of walking down his opponents, and he’d be a nightmare for someone like Khan to fight.
Khan is going to have his hands full with the speedy Devon Alexander. This fight could prove to be just as much a difficult one for Khan as his fights against Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia. Khan has become more defensive in his last three fights with him holding a lot more than he ever did in the past, but he’s still there to be hit.
In Guerrero’s last fight, he defeated Yoshihiro Kamegai in a war last June in beating him by a 12 round unanimous decision. It was a good fight and one of Guerrero’s best of his career, because he purposefully went toe-toe with Kamegai rather than just boxing him the way he could have.
Ranked #7 by the IBF, Guerrero is looking to get in position for another world title shot at 147. He’d like to get another crack at WBA/WBC welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr, but that’s not likely unless Guerrero can pick up a couple of important wins over some of the top contenders.