{"id":9909,"date":"2010-12-15T16:04:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/12\/15\/champion-khan-wants-mayweather-showdown\/"},"modified":"2010-12-15T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T16:04:27","slug":"champion-khan-wants-mayweather-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/15\/champion-khan-wants-mayweather-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Champion Khan wants Mayweather showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u2018If I keep training well then it&#8217;s possible\u2019, says Bolton ace<\/h3>\n<div><strong>TRIUMPHANT Amir Khan flew back into Britain with one thing on his mind &#8211; Floyd Mayweather Jnr!<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Bolton star produced one of his greatest victories in Las Vegas against hard-hitting Marcos Maidana, securing a unanimous points decision to retain the WBA light-welterweight title. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>His performance was hailed across Britain, with Khan himself proclaiming post-fight he had silenced his doubters. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Now talk has moved to Khan\u2019s future opponents, and there\u2019s only one name on the horizon. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking following his return to Britain Khan said: &#8220;There&#8217;s talk of big fights for me towards the end of the year. Someone like Mayweather. If I keep training well then it&#8217;s possible. I want to unify the division.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I took a lot of big shots. I&#8217;ve faced a tough opponent who is in the top three in the world. People know I&#8217;ve got heart.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Khan isn\u2019t the only one throwing the Mayweather name into the ring. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Trainer Freddie Roach believes Khan can take on Mayweather but not just yet. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;We need another fight at 140 pounds to make sure he looks good and stop making the mistakes he made,&#8221; Roach told Radio Five Live. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It could happen. If he cleans up the 140 pound division and goes to 147, Mayweather won&#8217;t fight Pacquiao but maybe he will fight Amir Khan.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It would be a fight I would welcome.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018If I keep training well then it&#8217;s possible\u2019, says Bolton ace TRIUMPHANT Amir Khan flew back into Britain with one thing on his mind &#8211; Floyd Mayweather Jnr! &#13; The Bolton star produced one of his greatest victories in Las Vegas against hard-hitting Marcos Maidana, securing a unanimous points decision to retain the WBA light-welterweight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}