Amir Khan confirms talks with Manny Pacquiao: "January or February next year. America would be a great location"

Amir Khan could fight Manny Pacquiao in early 2027

Amir Khan spoke to Hard Rock Bet and provided a world exclusive about Manny Pacquiao signing to fight him, with America being the likely location for it to happen in January or February. Khan revealed a promotional company has approached him to get him to sign for the fight to take place.

Read on to find out more.

Do you have any new exciting projects coming up?

Amir Khan: Look, what's talks between me and Manny Pacquiao, one hundred percent. There's been a team in touch with me. I've not told anyone. I've just kept to myself.

There’s a lot of excitement about it. They said that they aren't the team of Manny Pacquiao or Sean Gibbons, but they wanted to approach me because Pacquiao mentioned my name. Let's see if it happens. I would say yes to, but it's not something that I'm going to put all my eggs in the basket where I'm going to say, "It's happening, it's happening."

I know things like this sometimes happen, sometimes don't happen, but I thought I'd let you know that they have been talking to me, the team. Not Pacquiao's team, but this promotional company, who they said they've got a signature from Manny Pacquiao.

They then said, "We want a signature from you now," but I'm just looking at things and sent it to a lawyer. Let's see what happens. If it happens, it's not something I'll say no to. It's something I've always wanted. This is new I didn't mention it, I didn't tweet about it, let's see.

When would it take place?

Amir Khan: January or February next year. America would be a great location. They want two legends to be in the ring again. They know that they will fetch big numbers.

So, I said, look, no problem. I go, "What do you need from me, let me know. I would say yes, I'll fight." But I'm not going to promote it. I'm not going to post about it like it's happening. It's not. There's talks happening. That's all.

They were happy for me to tell you, that I was allowed to mention, and to announce that there's talks happening on this year.

Is this the big news that Sean Gibbons has teased about?

Amir Khan: It could be. It could be, or it could be even a fight before then. There was talk of him being on the undercard of Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua, I don’t see that happening and there was also talk of me being on the card.

I don't know where they got that from because I never heard a word. So, I don't know where that came from.

But, look, the fight just interests me, but it’s been four or five years since I last had a fight. I need to get back in training camp, start to fly out. I just wanted to just enjoy myself a little bit, but if I find out that the fight is happening, I’ll need to get into camp and be in super shape and train hard.

I honestly overtrained myself with my last fight [against Kell Brook], and I didn't want to leave it because I questioned myself that if I didn't overtrain myself, how would that fight have gone?

So, I still feel that I killed myself in the last camp, and that's my own fault. I should have took my foot off the gas. After COVID, I went into a hard training camp, there was COVID, injuries… you can't keep boiling the kettle because there'll be nothing left inside it.

I had nothing left of me. There's no excuse to be my one on the night. The better man won but I wouldn't make them same mistakes again. I just want to see if I still have it in me.