This coming Saturday at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan, 23-year-old Devon Alexander (21-0, 13 knockouts) will stake his WBC junior welterweight This content is protected title in a unification bout with 27-year-old Tim Bradley (26-0, 11 KOs), the WBO's champion. The winner could emerge as a challenger to eight-division titlist, Manny Pacquiao This content is protected (52-3-2, 38 KOs), holder of the WBO welterweight title. If Alexander is victorious over Bradley,his promoter Don King will pursue for a fight with 6 Time world titlist Floyd Mayweather jr.
Alexander wants none of Khan, that's for sure. Very believable. Especially as Don King and Lil Floyd have been seen hanging out
Devon and Floyd are good friends. Don King said Floyd was going to watch Alexander train for Bradley.
It's waaaay to soon for any of those 3 (Alexander, Kahn, Bradley) to even be thinking about Mayweather (or even Pacquiao for that matter). They need to fight each other at 140 to see who's the best, and even then if they plan on going after 1 of the p4p kings, they need to get a few wins @ 147 under their belt like Bradley seems to be trying to do.
Exactly. That's why Khan is also a bad matchup for him. Nonetheless, it doesn't matter as Bradley will win.
Why would anyone be interested in a mismatch like this? Alexander isn't even a full welter weight, and hasn't shown the ability to be competitive against the elite, especially the elite of the elite , Mayweather. We'll never see Floyd against anyone who has any chance of being competitive as long as everyone buys into these mismatches. Floyd hasn't fought anyone with any hope for several years now. Paq against the shell that used to be Mosely is bad enough, but don't forget, Paq is a natural 140 pounder fighting bigger guys . Mayweather is fighting smaller guys who wouldn't have a chance even if they were bigger. Every great champ deserves a gimme now and then, but Floyds making a career out of it.
There's a good chance Alexander vs Floyd will happen, because Bradley will beat Alexander and leave him as damaged goods, and that might make Floyd find his urge. He likes smaller men.
Who isn't a mismatch for Mayweather? And even though I still think Pacquiao is clearly a one sided Mayweather win, we'll exclude him since the majority of "fans" believe its not a mismatch. Who 154 and below isn't? IMO he's in a class of his own.