Golden Boy & Khan - shocking contract stipulation

Mollycoddling, but that is to be expected with the given factors. Perhaps Oscar and co. feel he is'nt ready yet.

 

All depends whether this is true or not, so some posters just need to calm down. As i can predict that some posters are gonna take this as gospel and say Khans a ducker an this an that.

Though IF this is true, then i will be very dissapointed. Maybe two fights is fine (tho pushing it) i.e. JMM, then another, then Maidaina. But 3 fights IF true looks very bad on Khan and GBP. I swear their motto is that they will form great match-ups, not dodge great match-ups.

But the main point is lets wait is see if this really is true.

 

How about, they want to build a Maidana-Khan fight up into something big, instead of Khan v Mr Nobody? Maidana didnt have to take it, its obviously in his interests if he did

 

If it is true, I think it has more to do with money than protecting Khan.

Maidaina is not big money. JMM is!

 

Richard S. said due to the fact that neither Khan or Maidaina are names in the States that he would like to put them on a few cards together to build the fight. From a business stance it's not a bad idea. And if GBP is having the fighters go differnt ways - how is that Khan ducking anyone. Even Freddy Roack said that he would have Khan give up his belt - rather than fight Maidaina - mainly because he can make a bigger name for himself by fighting a bigger named fighter out there - such as JMM, Paulie M., Nate Campbell, so on and so on.

 

Disgusting. Boxing dies cuz of such practices. Khan is officialy a ducker and a fraud ,Real champions doesnt avoid their mandatories.

 

Maidana if he refused could have forced the fight or khan would have had to straight up duck him and get rid of his belt. Maidana seems quite happy with the arrangement if true

 

Building their names? Give me a break. they just hope maidana loses in one of his next fights so they could legally avoid him without any consequences.

 

Do you really think maidana is a harder fight for khan than marquez? Now unless marquez is shot i'd favour him to beat khan, at least make the fight 50/50. I'd heavily favour khan to outbox maidana in a safety first fight.

If khan fights marquez he ain't ducking no one

 

I don't blame him in the slighest either, yet it hardly shows him busting a gut to chase down khan and force him to fight him does it

 

If this is indeed true, then should we really be surprised?

Khan is still relatively a newcomer (particularly in the States), and it's obvious to me that he isn't quite ready for the elites of the 140 decision. Even taking on JMM for his first US fight is pretty dangerous, one which I actually favour JMM, and one which I think is a mistake.

But it's pretty obvious, their motives for doing this is largely from a business point of view too. Like it's already been mentioned, Khan is a nobody in the States, but he's got the potential to become a massive star. They've got a potential cash cow in their hands, so do you really think they're gonna throw him in the deep end (Maidana, Bradley etc) straight away?

Not to mention, this ploy of getting Maidana 3 fights on HBO is purely to get him some recognition too, so by the time Khan and him are due to fight, there will certainly be more hype than there is now