IBF has ordered Amir Khan vs Tim Bradley for the mandatory spot for Kell Brook's title. Doesn't mean it'll happen though.
Decent fight, could have been a better opponent, but Manny Pacquiao didn't get this much stick for the fight so how can someone worse get more stick for fighting the same guy?
Algieir isn't even a 147 fighter, he went up for the Pacman payday which you can't blame him, alsio fighting Khan for the payday and again can't blame him. Khan should be fighting at worst a Diego Chaves. This is undefendable IMO. ****ing ****.
It'd be crazy of Amir to take that fight when he could just fight Kell anyway, but I think Khan & Bradley have unfinished business from when they were at 140. If Khan was to take that fight and win he'd have two clean victories over the two fighters who, alongside him, were the main players at 140 (Bradley and Alexander), he'd have a great scalp at 147 (Bradley is a name and he beat Manny in his prime), and he'd have even more bargaining power for the Kell fight, and he'd have beaten a better fighter at 147 than Kell has! Amir is the kind of psycho to do such a thing as well!
Khan fans must be truly embarrassed, I just don't see how anybody can defend Algieri, coming off a beating, not a 147 fighter and not a top 20 welterweight even if he was at 147, Pacquiao showed us that. It will be a joke fight and Khan is now officially a joke in my opinion.
its not a bad stay busy fight, but khans in his prime here, he should be fighting the top guys. he's only fighting twice a year at present, and is moving further away from becoming relevant, after this he probably won't be fighting till nov/dec time because of Ramadan. By which time Thurman and brook could of fought twice and be well past him in the rankings, and khan will be left on the sidelines.