While Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao speculation continues to be the buzz, Amir Khan has made it clear he will not wait around for them to decide their course of action.
"Last year I spent months chasing Mayweather," Khan said. "That is absolutely not going to happen again. I will give it until the middle of January and if there are no signs he will come to the negotiation table, then I will look elsewhere.
"I have to stay busy and I think my last two performances have shown I belong in the same ring as any welterweight in the world, including Mayweather."
Khan is coming off a dominant performance against Devon Alexander, a win that marked his third straight win and second consecutive victory at welterweight. If Mayweather decides against facing Khan, as he's indicated he plans on doing, Khan has a big money option in the U.K.-IBF welterweight champion Kell Brook.
According to reports, Brook's adviser Eddie Hearn said there's an offer to Khan on the table that could potentially be more lucrative than a Vegas fight with Mayweather.
"The Khan fight is probably made by the end of January if it's going to happen. The only conversation I've had is with Al Haymon, who loves the fight [between Khan and Brook]," Hearn said.
"Floyd's doing 800 or 900 thousand buys per pay-per-view event. That's the standard number. Khan [v Mayweather] only does 800,000 buys. If Khan was creating PPV numbers of say 2 million, they would take the fight with him straight away. And Mayweather could lose that fight. They're very clever in who they fight and I just can't see them going for Amir next," Hearn said.
"I just feel that if Amir doesn't fight Floyd Mayweather he has to fight Kell Brook. What were his numbers against Alexander - 700 or 800 thousand dollars? Obviously there was a little bit of UK money. Let's call it one and a half million US dollars. He'd make minimum five and probably more like six or seven million US dollars (£4.5m) to fight Kell Brook."
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