Amir Khan is pushing for a struggle towards Manny Pacquiao, predicting that it’ll create extra hype than the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson struggle from final yr.
‘Similar Stage’ as Pacquiao
The retired 38-year-old former gentle welterweight champion Khan (34-6, 21 KOs) says that he and the 46-year-old Pacquiao are on the similar stage now. He states that it will give the boxing public an opportunity to see the type of struggle they’d have had in the event that they’d fought in 2017, after they have been near organising a mega-fight within the UAE.
Followers Mock the Payday Discuss
Customers on social media are criticizing Khan, seeing his callout of Pacquiao as a pathetic try and get a “payday” towards the Filipino star.
Pacquiao hasn’t responded but to Khan’s try and arrange a struggle with him. On Wednesday, Manny talked of being in negotiations with 48-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jr. for a rematch in 2026. That’s a struggle that Pacquiao believes can occur, and he says it will be a “actual struggle.”
Khan doesn’t imagine the Mayweather-Pacquiao rematch will occur. He sees Mayweather being too busy preventing “YouTubers.”
“I believe Manny Pacquiao is on the similar stage. We’re each retired and on the similar time,” stated Amir Khan to talkSport Boxing about wanting. “He’s slipping just a little bit. It will have been good to get within the ring with him to see how it will have been if we’d fought a very long time in the past.”
Pacquiao (62-8-3, 39 KOs) fought WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios to a 12-round majority attract his final struggle on July 19, 2025. That efficiency by Manny was far superior to how Khan appeared in his final struggle, dropping to Kell Brook by a sixth-round knockout on February 19, 2022.
LETS GO @MannyPacquiao I’m up for one last dance however solely with you as my companion. You’re nonetheless speaking rematch with Floyd? Let’s make OUR struggle that by no means occurred. That is the ONLY one which will get me out of retirement – it’s what the followers all the time wished 🤔 pic.twitter.com/NYSFRP5tsJ
— Amir Khan (@amirkingkhan) October 29, 2025
“What a struggle it will be. I want to be within the ring with a legend,” stated Khan. “I do know it will be an incredible struggle. Manny is a good friend. It will promote as nicely as a result of we each have respectable names. It’ll create extra hype as a result of we each retired lately, and on the similar time, we’re each massive names.”
U.S followers wouldn’t be enthusiastic about subscribing to Netflix to see Pacquiao struggle Khan, as he’s not well-known with the youthful followers. The older ones who’re aware of Khan bear in mind him for his knockout losses to Briedis, Prescott, Canelo Alvarez, Kell Brook, and Terence Crawford.
“Extra Hype Than Jake Paul vs Tyson”
“Nicely, positively, you recognize what it’ll create extra hype,” stated Khan a few struggle between him and Pacquiao, creating extra fan curiosity than the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson struggle on Netflix on November 15, 2024. That struggle was seen by 108 million viewers globally on Netflix, which a large quantity.
That seems like wishful considering on Khan’s half, as a struggle between him and Pacquiao seemingly wouldn’t generate anyplace close to the identical quantity of curiosity because the struggle between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. There’s not sufficient of a following for him or Pacquiao to usher in over 100 million viewers, and even match the numbers the Canelo Alvarez vs. Terence Crawford introduced in on Netflix for his or her struggle on September 13, 2025.
