Floyd Mayweather Jr is keen to fight Amir Khan at Wembley Stadium and repeat the success of Carl Froch and George Groves' bout at the national stadium.
Froch secured an eighth-round knockout against Groves in the IBF and WBA super-middleweight title bout in front of 80,000 on Saturday in the biggest British fight for four decades.
Khan has been chasing a fight with Mayweather Jr for over two years and after laying down another challenge to the unbeaten American at the weekend, the 37 year old has responded claiming he would relish the opportunity to compete in front of a British crowd.
"It's been a goal to come to the UK and put on a spectacular event and the plan is to do just that," he told The Sun.
"I love all my fans in the UK and I want to go there and give a good show at Wembley before I retire. I plan to come in the near future. I want to continue to make history with the mega events we put on.
"The Floyd Mayweather brand is globally recognised. The warm welcome over there in UK is a good indicator of the magnitude of success a fight would have. We're looking forward to it in the future."
Mayweather Jr, who has three fights remaining on his Showtime Television contract, has continually dodged a meeting with Khan – recently deciding to fight Argentine Marcos Maidana in May while the Brit beat Luis Collazo impressively on the undercard.
After watching Froch and Groves compete in front of a capacity crowd at the national stadium, Khan is confident a meeting in 2015 with Mayweather Jr – unbeaten in 46 professional fights – would eclipse that bout.
"I think it will be the biggest fight ever in Britain," he said. "Global interest would come to England and we'd sell out Wembley.
"I really want to bring this fight to the UK. I've fought all over the world and been top of bill but this would be so much bigger.
"They have done a fantastic job hyping Groves and Froch but this fight is on another level. Floyd is boxing. Britain would shut down. It would be like the World Cup final of boxing."
A potential meeting between the pair was thrown into doubt on Tuesday when Mayweather Jr split with Golden Boy Promotions – the co-promoter of his fights alongside his own company Mayweather Promotions – after Richard Schaefer's resignation as chief executive.
Khan signed a deal with Golden Boy in April, in a deal which was expected to ease negotiations over a potential meeting.
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Bit preemptive there. Not signed and delivered yet.
Would love it just for the spectacle of Mayweather fighting in the UK alone. Shame we have no-one better than Khan to go up against him.
I said on the froch vs groves thread wembley don't work but i would go to this
No, it wouldn't.
If the fight is confirmed and
If you want to go and then the second they go on sale book it the 80 quid seats are the minimum that you should try for first
Agree with you.Typical Mayweather talking bollocks quote.
However I think floyd would milk every rd of the fight and make it go atleast 10 before he finished him
Cannot stand Khan.
Any tickets above the first tier level at wembley expect to be disappointed
If you can get the halfway line tickets then you will have a great view
Entrance B Blocks 23,24, 25 ,26 and the Lower level seats you'll have a good enough view
Atmosphere was like nothing I'd been to before (or since) though. Not sure Wembley could get anywhere near....but I would definitely go.
I thought it was decent to be honest.
I don't doubt that people will jump on the Mayweather bandwagon, but I don't believe it's going to be the crazed fight for tickets that he thinks it will be. Baring in mind that the online touts were struggling to make their usual insane profit on tickets for his fight with Maidana.
You'd get fight fans from around Europe who prob could never go Vegas to see him hop on the euro star and be here not just English fight fans