‘Khan is my last fight’

AMIR KHAN is again having the carrot of a megabucks fight with Floyd Mayweather Jnr dangled under hi s nose.

Mayweather, having won his boxer- of-the-generation fight with Manny Pacquiao, was asked who is left out there for him to beat.

The one-word reply: ‘Khan’.

The Bolton native had taken a day-trip away from his own training camp near San Francisco to present himself at ringside in Las Vegas.

He has always believed he will inflict the first defeat of Mr Money’s career — ‘I really believe I have his number,’ Khan said — but, as in all things in boxing, it’s all in the timing.

Mayweather insisted he will fight one more t i me i n September before it’s time to ‘hang up the gloves’.

If so, Khan, a devout Muslim, would have to seek a religious dispensation to curtail his observance of Ramadan. Otherwise he would not have time to prepare fully for the biggest night of his career.

Khan may be even more reluctant to com- promise his faith, given that Mayweather has promised to fight him twice before… only to pull the carrot away at the last moment.

With Pacquiao considering his future, the likelier option appears to be a late November or early December fight with the PacMan in Abu Dhabi, for which a substantial offer is already on promoter Bob Arum’s table.

‘I think the fight is there,’ Khan told Radio 5 Live. ‘I spoke to Len Ellerbe, his manager. I saw him in the media room and he came over to say “Hi... he’s ready when you are”.