Amir Khan is lining up a rematch with WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia as fight with Kell Brook fails to materialise due to financial terms
The former unified super-lightweight champion wants to avenge his loss to the American he suffered in 2012
AMIR KHAN is chasing a rematch with WBC welterweight Danny Garcia after failing to agree a super-fight with Kell Brook.
Talks between the two British boxers broke down after financial terms proved to be the stumbling block, leaving Khan hoping to avenge his loss against the American.
A mouth-watering showdown at Wembley Stadium between the Sheffield fighter and the 2004 Olympic silver medallist has long been sought after between the two.
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But now Garcia – the man who knocked out Khan in 2012 for the WBA and WBC super-lightweight titles, is the main priority.
Looking to become a two-weight world champion, he said: “They’re both big fights, both big-money fights, but the fight between me and Garcia is something that always hurts me.
“I know I could have won that fight. I was beating him and schooling him, until I got hit with a big shot. That was me not thinking and sticking to the game plan.
“I know how the training camp for that fight went. I thought the fight was going to be a walk in the park and I didn’t take it seriously.
“I thought he was the new kid on the block, I thought, ‘Who is this kid?
“It was all one-sided, but then I made that one mistake and got caught. Since that fight, Garcia has improved and I give him credit.
“I think Garcia is a harder fight than Kell Brook and it’s just that unfinished business I have with him.”
However, a potential fight with the 28-year-old could be scuppered as he is aiming to unify the welterweight division when he takes on WBA champion Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman at the Barclays Center in New York on March 4.
Khan is planning on a having a comeback fight back in welterweight in May, after he had surgery on his troubled right hand after the ill-fated clash with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez up at middleweight.
Brook is currently in talks to fight his mandatory challenger Errol Spence for the IBF welterweight belt, but believes super welterweight is where he would feel strongest.
Khan has urged his rival not to make the jump up, he said: “If he does that then the chance of us fighting is finished.