Khan has inside track for Floyd fight

Amir Khan seems to be Manny Pacquiao’s biggest rival for a Floyd Mayweather fight next year and the British star appears to have the inside track.

The Telegraph, the widely-circulated British paper, has reported that Khan has been assured of a showdown with the brash US fighter in 2015 provided he beats Devon Alexander this Saturday night (Sunday morning in Manila) in Las Vegas.

Top British fight scribe Gareth Davies, a perennial fixture in many of Pacquiao’s fights in America, said Khan’s post-Alexander bout would be against Mayweather.

Mayweather and Khan share one manager, Al Haymon, a Harvard-educated boxing adviser from Cleveland and it looks like the two are on a collision course.

The past few weeks, there’s been talk about setting up Mayweather and Pacquiao with Hall of Fame promoter Bob Arum spearheading the move.

Despite Arum’s pronouncements that he is trying his best to get the fight done, there’s been no reaction or statement coming from Haymon’s camp, suggesting either that, indeed, there’s something going on or he’s not giving too much thought about the Top Rank chief.

Arum said he is in contact with Les Moonves, the head of CBS, which owns Showtime, trying to pit Pacquiao and Mayweather for a megabuck matchup eyed to take place in the first six months of next year.

Showtime has Mayweather under contract for six fights and only two more fights remain before their partnership expires.

Like Haymon, Mayweather has also opted to remain silent despite reports quoting Arum that his priority is for Pacquiao and Mayweather to agree on a fight, something that is highly unusual given Mayweather’s outspoken nature.

If ever Pacquiao and Mayweather meet in the ring, it will go down as the richest in the history of the sport owing to their enormous popularity.