Charles Billiards on Brand Boulevard is a great place to shoot pool and talk boxing from time to time. Wednesday night conversation, after usual Manny Pacquaio Floyd Mayweather debate, turned to this Saturday light welterweight unification bout between Amir Khan and Zab Judah. With WBA and IBF titles on the line they will square off in the ring on July 23rd at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. HBO will televise live beginning at 7:00 pm Pacific time.
Fans opinions were divided on two issues; the outcome of the fight and whether two very skilled boxers in the ring will put on a fight worth watching.
?I don’t mind boxers,” said Khan when I interviewed him in Los Angeles last week: ?Luckily I have amateur background. I have a lot of experience that way. I went to Olympic Games. I sparred with Manny Pacquiao who is a boxer as well. I think it’s good for me to fight a boxer. It gives me a little bit of a change.” The question remains whether it would be good for the fans in the arena in Las Vegas or the ones that are planning to watch it on HBO. ?We are going to be ready,” assured Khan, 24:” He could come to fight or he could come to box or he could come to run. We know exactly how to beat him and what to do in the fight.”
