There shouldn’t be too much longer to wait now for Floyd Mayweather’s announcement regarding his opponent for September 12th and the 49th and supposed “final” fight of his career.
A number of fighters at 147 lb are in the frame, with the charge being arguably led by Britain’s Amir Khan, who will surely jump off a bridge if he ISN’T the man in the opposite corner to Floyd in a couple of month’s time!
The Brit is far and away the most vocal of potential opponents, and has been so for the better part of 2 1/2 years, yet it would be potentially foolish to rule out anybody at 147, including “Showtime” Shawn Porter, who enjoyed a satisfying victory over Ohioan rival and Floyd’s “little bro”, Adrien Broner last month.
His father and trainer Kenny, in his latest chat with ThaBoxingVoice, has insisted that Team Porter wants the Floyd fight as much as anyone, though he doesn’t think his son will be getting the call, and in that event, they will ostensibly “settle” for the likes of Amir Khan or Florida’s Keith Thurman instead.
“I expect him (Mayweather) to say no to us every time our name gets mentioned – and that’s okay. But if he wants us to fight some of these other guys he’s named on the undercard (Errol Spence Jr), then he’s gonna have to put some money on the table.”
“We’re not gonna stop saying we want to fight him – we wanna fight Mayweather, we don’t wanna fight anybody else.”
Yet Porter realises they must keep their options open – and following Keith Thurman’s fight with Luis Collazo last weekend, his son also joins a growing list of fighters sensing some vulnerability around “One Time”.
On a potential Thurman fight, he said;
“We’re definitely accepting of that fight but I don’t think that’s happening for our next fight. I think it’s a little further down the line. As Broner would say, if “Big bro” wants to walk away from the game and give up all the titles, we’ll fight anyone for them – especially Keith.”
“We’d love to fight Bradley, we’d love to fight Pacquiao, Keith Thurman, Amir Khan. Those are great fighters, we’d love to fight all those guys – Danny Garcia (too).”
“We know that Mayweather’s not gonna take the fight. He’s not gonna even respond to (potentially) taking the fight. We won’t say no and we’ll continue to prepare for Mayweather.”
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