Amir Khan Denies IBF Ever offered A Bradley fight; IBF Rebukes Claim

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Amir-Khan-Virgil-Hunter_CuaWBC Silver welterweight champion Amir Khan (30-3, 19 knockouts) is in the headlines again and not in a good light. The former world champion claimed that an IBF welterweight eliminator match between him and former WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley was never offered to him by the IBF.

Bradley spoke with SB Nation in December 2014 about the possibility of fighting Amir Khan.

“Always. Always. Always. Amir doesn’t bug me at all, man. You look at Amir’s career, and you look at my career, it speaks for itself,” said Bradley. “Amir’s going to do what he’s going to do. I do what I do. If our lanes cross, let’s do it! Like I told you, I’ll fight anybody. Amir is one of them. I’ll fight you, Amir. I’m not afraid of you.”

Bradley appears willing to fight Khan. Khan recently spoke with FightHype.com and adamantly claimed that the fight was never offered to him.
“The fight was never offered to me,” Khan said. “I got no notice from the IBF and my advisor has never said to me that I have to fight Timothy Bradley in an eliminator. That’s [expletive]. They’re just trying to make me look bad. That fight has never been offered to me.”
No one said Khan has to fight anybody. Khan doesn’t have a legitimate world championship at the moment. He has no need to worry about mandatory matchups. A victory in an IBF eliminator means a fight with Brook, and Khan has been avoiding that. In addition, ESPN’s Dan Rafael revealed that someone isn’t being truthful.

Rafael stated via Twitter “It was IBF that told me Khan’s side turned down Bradley eliminator.”

Khan’s side turned down the fight with Bradley. It’s possible that Khan’s advisor is not informing his fighter of everything that’s going on, Khan is lying, or both are involved in the misinformation.

Just last week, Khan announced he would be fighting former junior welterweight champion Chris Algieri on his wife’s YouTube channel. Three days later, he was forced to backtrack from his comments because the fight was actually not finalized yet. And now, we have this. The saga continues.