Amir Khan has stated that he is keen to add the WBC light-welterweight belt to his ever growing title collection.
The vacant WBA title is also on the line and that was previously held by Khan, as well as the IBF belt, until he lost them both to Lamont Peterson in December.
Peterson has since been stripped of his titles after failing a drugs test, which has put the WBA belt up for grabs, but it is the WBC strap that Khan is after. The Green belt is the one that the original championship is directly descended from and for Khan it is one of the missing pieces of the puzzle at 147lbs.
"As far as I know I'm going to be fighting for the WBA title as well as the WBC," Khan said.
"The WBC belt is the one Danny Garcia has and I've read in a few places and heard from Richard Schaefer, the CEO of Golden Boy Promotions that I'll be fighting for the WBA as well. So at the moment I believe it's those two titles that I'm fighting for.
"If you look over history, all the top, top fighters have held the WBC title. The likes of Erik Morales in his peak, Marco Antonio Barrera, Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, Floyd Mayweather and English guys like Naseem Hamed and Lennox Lewis have all held it.
"It's one of those titles you want. The colour and the look of it is prestigious and recognisable too.”
At one stage it looked like Khan was set to be undisputed champion at 140lbs, with just Timothy Bradley Junior left in his way.
However, Bradley ducked Khan and the belts got scattered about a bit and with Khan looking to move up to 147lbs after this fight, he may never get the chance to become the undisputed champion.
"I think it's a good time to clean up the division and move up to welterweight because we've kind of won everything apart from the WBO, which Timothy Bradley wouldn't fight me for when he had it,” said Khan.
So to have the chance to have won three of the big titles means it is really a big occasion for me.
"It would be brilliant to get all four at once and be officially undisputed champion. But I've tried so many times and it just didn't happen.
"We offered the fight to Bradley twice when I had the WBA and IBF and he had the WBO and WBC but he turned it down.
"He had to vacate and now Garcia holds one of them after he beat Morales for the WBC.
"The titles are all over the place so now I just want to fight Garcia and hopefully win the two titles."
Gareth Williams
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