Opening odds for broner and khan?

PFamily413: The fight has yet to be agreed and signed by promotion and sanctioning bodies. Broner and Khan might fight on the Mayweahter undercard, but originally not each other.

I will add further to this but here is a simplification of matters. If Mayweather can get Broner vs Khan, he now just fights the winner, and not has to fight both opponents. By beating the winner of Khan vs Broner, history will remember Mayweather as besting both of them, but the perception is not the truth. Mayweather has much more to gain if Khan and Broner fight each other. I will make a new thread as it gets somewhat complex.

Think this... if Broner and Khan win against different opponents in dominant fashion, the public will wonder why Mayweather has yet to face Manny Pacquiao, Amir Khan and Adrien Broner. All three have extremely fast hands and could create difficulty in a decision. Mayweather would prefer to fight just the winner, and making history as if he beat them all. That's public perception, not reality... Mayweather knows the truth of this matter, but will bend and shape it to contour within his legendary career.

To put things in a more realistic light, we can go back seventy years and compare a few things. A supreme boxer named Smith came along. Smith was 85–0 as an amateur with 69 of those victories coming by way of knockout, 40 in the first round. He turned professional in 1940 at the age of 19 and by 1951 had a professional record of 128–1–2 with 84 knockouts. From 1943 to 1951 Smith went on a 91 fight unbeaten streak.

Yes, this was Sugar Ray Robinson. Losing his first professional bout to LaMotta on February 5th, 1943 (he was 16 lbs lighter). Two weeks later he beat California Jackie Wilson, he re-matched LaMotta the next week on February 26th, 1943 by winning a ten round decision. He took three fights in twenty-one days, not twenty-one months like today. Yes, times were different, but so was Robinson. He was at his best at welterweight, and all his early fights were not filmed, but remembered by spectators as watching a man that fought like a comic book hero without the cape and the “S” on his chest.

When Floyd says he was better than Robinson, I laugh. I laugh because I believe Floyd would have been a great opponent, and had the abilities to beat Robinson, but when a fighter of Mayweather’s caliber lacks to fight the best fighters in his own lifetime (as Mayweather hand picks opponents, which is fine for a long healthy life; but clearly separates him from the supreme elite), yet in a time fighters were willing to die in the ring, Robinson just picked apart everyone. He beat 10 hall of fame fighters (and some several times) and was undefeated at welterweight.

Don't get me wrong. I like Mayweather, I believe he is or is within todays lbs-for-lbs best. My point was clarifying why he prefers having future opponents fight each other, thus making it easier for him and padding his record. If both are considered top contenders, why not fight both? It's a rhetorical question.

GL to all you bettors!