Amir Khan: Floyd Mayweather Looked Bad Against ‘Worse Than A Journeyman’ Logan Paul

Amir Khan was not a fan of the Floyd Mayweather vs. Logan Paul exhibition match earlier this month.

The pair competed in an eight-round exhibition boxing match that saw Paul surprisingly last the full distance as the contest ended with no winner as per the rules.

While Paul didn’t take major damage, Khan believes it’s only a matter of time until a social media star gets hurt with boxing getting tarnished in the process.

“I’m not really a big fan of that exhibition thing,” Khan explained to Brian Custer on The Last Stand podcast (via Boxing Scene). “No disrespect to Floyd or the other fighters that are doing that, but I just think it’s not good for the sport of boxing.

“People are not taking boxing seriously and boxing’s a sport where, the time they are going to start taking it seriously is when someone gets badly hurt. We just don’t want that to happen. I think it would be quite tarnishing for boxing if God forbid a YouTuber got knocked out by a professional fighter. You can’t really compare the two. I would never do that because I would be scared to hurt someone. If you hurt an influencer and you are the fighter that people always respected, you’re going to lose that respect.”

As for the fight, Mayweather received plenty of criticism as the expectation was that he would give Paul the early rounds before delivering the knockout.

That’s not what happened and Khan — who tried to fight Mayweather multiple times in the past — believes things backfired on him.

“Really, you shouldn’t be sharing the ring with that person. Floyd did it a couple of weeks ago in Miami other day against Logan Paul,” Khan added. “He couldn’t hurt Logan and it looked bad for him. Him being a trained professional fighter for many years, whereas Logan came, put his gloves on and went in the ring.

“A lot of people said Floyd didn’t look the same. Really, he got more bad comments than he got good comments in that fight. Did he really need the money? No. We don’t think he does. But going into that fight he got a lot more hate because he couldn’t knock out a guy who’s worse than a journeyman basically.”