Pride and Excitement: How ‘bitterness’ hindered Floyd Mayweather versus Amir Khan

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Former unified light-welterweight world champion, Amir Iqbal Khan related that Floyd Mayweather’s pride hindered their bout once.

United Kingdom’s Khan will likely become a Hall of Famer in the future because of his exceptional performance, but he had planned to fight Floyd Mayweather while still at his very best.

However, a sad misstep on Khan’s part offended the American’s pride and stopped things on their tracks.

Later down the road, Khan would tell Gambling Zone that the incident with Mayweather was one of the biggest regrets of his life.

‘One of the biggest regrets of my life was with Floyd Mayweather, I was in the prime of my career and we did the deal to fight, we had a contract.

‘I decided to announce it first and then Floyd spat his dummy out, he said “why have you announced it first?” He thought he was the big star and it was up to him to announce it.

‘I made that mistake, I posted “guys, I’m fighting Floyd Mayweather next” and he got very bitter that I jumped the gun and it was off.

‘I was young, 24 or 25, and I got excited about fighting a legend in the sport. But it is what it is.’

Khan might have broken one of Robert Greene’s rules in the process.

Another fighter Khan failed to fight, according to him, was Manny Pacquiao.

It seems that even the prospect of being inducted into the Hall of Fame does not console Khan who failed to match his abilities with legendary Mayweather’s.