Khan: It’s payback time for Danny Garcia

By Vladimir S - 01/24/2016 - Comments

With his #1 ranking with the WBC, Amir Khan is on the verge of finally getting one of the fights he wants in him getting a potential crack at the new WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia (32-0, 18 KOs) in his next fight if he wants it. Khan says he definitely wants to face the 27-year-old Garcia so that he can avenge his loss from 2012, and pick up the WBC 147lb title that was recently stripped from Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Last night, Garcia won a close 12 round unanimous decision victory over Robert Guerrero (33-4-1, 18 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions on Fox from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.

The three judges scored it 116-112, 116-112 and 116-112. The fight looked a little closer than that. Mayweather thought the fight should have been scored a draw. I agree with him. I thought the fight was a draw. Garcia did too much holding, running and fouling for the likes of me. I couldn’t give rounds to Garcia because he was just spoiling and not trying to make it a fight. When Garcia’s not fighting an easy mark like Rod Salka, he fights timidly and in a very boring manner that’s hard on the eyes. I see him as the WBC’s paper champion, and definitely not the real thing.

“It has to be me now,” Khan said to Fighthype about him being next for Danny Garcia. “Hopefully, I get my time now to fight Garcia again, and obviously the mistake I made in the first fight, I’ll never make again. I think it’s time now. I’m in a great position now to fight Garcia now. I’m the mandatory. Let’s make it happen,” Khan said.

Garcia and his dad Angel Garcia were negative to the idea of fighting Khan next. Garcia he doesn’t want to take his career backwards by fighting Khan. He wants to move on to “bigger and better things,” but unfortunately that might not mean what he says. If you look at the guys that Garcia fought recently, Rod Salka, Paulie Malignaggi and Lamont Peterson, you have to figure that he’s on board with fighting soft opposition for easy paydays. Garcia’s reluctance to fight Khan again, or some of the fighters that he won questionable decisions against like Mauricio Herrera and Peterson, it comes across like he’s dodging the fights.

“He [Guerrero] boxed well. He was smart the way he boxed. Nobody expected that from Robert Guerrero, so you have to tip your hat to Robert Guerrero. He boxed a good fight. I’m glad he [Garcia] won because it’s the perfect time now and it’s my chance to beat him,” Khan said.

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