Floyd Mayweather asked his fans who he should fight next. The two choices were Amir Khan or Marcos Maidana and after over 35,000 votes the final tally showed that Khan was the overwhelming favorite winning 57 percent of the vote (20,105 votes) to Maidana’s 45 percent (15,474) after the poll closed at 11:59 pm Sunday night.
A lot of chatter on social media is claiming that Mayweather’s camp rigged the vote especially after ESPN’s SPORTSNATION put their own poll on the matter up and Maidana won that one easily receiving 62 percent of the over 65,000 votes.
An argument for Mayweather’s poll can be that SPORTSNATION’s poll was a U.S. only vote, which means none of the big following of Khan fans in Britain could take part in their vote. With Mayweather’s being open to any country, it can be assumed that Khan’s fans helped give him the edge over Maidana in the Mayweather Promotions poll.
Despite what people think, it appears that the long rumored Mayweather-Khan bout will indeed be the bout we see take place on May 3 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nev., giving Khan the opportunity if a lifetime despite going 2-2 in his last four bouts.
Khan has the speed and the boxing skill to make the bout more competitive that most think, but Khan’s questionable chin is what everyone is talking about, including Khan himself.
Khan Tweeted:
https://twitter.com/AmirKingKhan/status/432809814113017856
Khan Tweeting out that list of boxers who are considered tough fighters despite losing via KO a few times in their career, is his way of trying to tell fans, just because I’ve been knocked out doesn’t mean I can’t fight.
With all the hoopla leading up to the now pending Mayweather-Khan bout all but guarantees the fight to be a financial success, as Mayweather-led bouts usually are. So what many see as a publicity stunt by Mayweather will just earn him more money in the end and that is all that matters to the man nicknamed “Money May”.
