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Khan would earn more fighting me, says Brook

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Kell Brook is hoping British rival does not get "chinned" against Devon Alexander in Las Vegas on Saturday - and then agrees to fight him next year.

Bolton's former world light-welterweight champion Khan has stepped up a division and hopes victory over American Alexander will earn him a lucrative fight with boxing's cash cow and pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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But Brook insists Khan can earn more from fighting him in 2015 and argues that he does not deserve a crack at Mayweather.

Khan has prioritized a fight with WBC-WBA welterweight champion Mayweather over Brook, Sheffield's IBF world title-holder who is preparing for a first defence on March 10.

"It will be a close fight but I think Amir Khan will scrape through [against Alexander]," Brook told ESPN. "I think there will be a bit of drama at some point in the fight but Amir has more of a boxing brain and definitely more speed than Devon.

"I hope he keeps his hands up against Alexander and doesn't get chinned again. It would mess things up a bit if that happened.

"We need to bubble wrap Amir Khan ideally.

"All Amir is about is he's in there for the big pay day against Mayweather... He wants to fight Mayweather and when he loses he's got a big bag of dosh and then there's still the fight with me that he will get well paid for. But that's not how it should work.

"He says he wants the big fights but he's not even the best in Britain, I am, and he could earn more money fighting me than Mayweather.

"I don't see why he's banging on about the Mayweather fight when there's a bigger fight in his backyard. He doesn't deserve to be fighting Mayweather, or me for that matter, but I just want to get rid of him."

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