SO Amir Khan won but really he lost and Marcos Maidana lost but he really won.
Maidana deserved his shot at Floyd Mayweather more than Khan did, but Khan might have posed the more searching questions in the ring.
Ultimately, however, after Floyd Mayweather asked the fans to vote in a poll on his website saying he would let the fans decide who he would fight next, he went with the minority vote and picked Maidana regardless of the figures in favour of the British star.
Why he went against the grain we will probably never know.
We will likely get soundbites about how Maidana, having beaten Floyd's Lil Bro Adrien Broner and owning the WBA welterweight title, deserved his shot.
We might also be told that Maidana won a number of independent polls.
You can't dispute that. Danny Garcia aside, it is hard to see a more deserving fighter among the Golden Boy ranks that Mayweather so enjoys feasting upon.
Yes, Khan defeated Maidana in a thriller in 2010 but that was four long years ago – although, of course, that victory made the straight shootout between the two more complex.
Going in Maidana’s favour was not just the win over Broner, but that the fight will happen on the Hispanic holiday, Cinco de Mayo weekend, also known as Cinco de Mayweather in boxing parlance.
And Floyd’s ire was probably raised when an English newspaper reported the fight was on last October and again when Khan said he’d signed a contract for it earlier in the year.
No one breaks Mayweather’s news, even if it is someone else’s news. He dances to his own tune.
Khan’s enormous reach on social media would have helped keep him in the race, because Twitter, Shots and Instagram are languages Mayweather talks and he’s fluent in most of them.
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