By Edward Chaykovsky

WBC/WBA welterweight and junior middleweight champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. (47-0, 26KOs) is open to fighting Amir Khan (29-3, 19KOs), who's been calling out the boxer for at least the last two years. The champion's father and trainer, Floyd Mayweather Sr., wants to see his son batter Khan for his trash talk.

"My Dad is desperate for me to take - the Khan fight - he just wants me to shut the kid up and put him down. My Dad doesn't like fighters trash talking his son - but he knows as well as I do that if the fight happens - then I am going to punish him. If he thinks he can trash talk me and get away with it he needs to think again," Mayweather told The Daily Mail Online.

Khan, scheduled to return in December, is looking to get in the ring with Mayweather on May 2, which is the date Mayweather is targeting for his next fight.

"He (Khan) is a good fighter - he has quick hands - but I am a far more intelligent fighter than him - and I could already tell you how I would beat him," Mayweather said.

"I have always said that nobody has any right just to get a fight with me. I am nobody's pay day, I am nobody's meal ticket. I take fights that I believe will test me, and will put on a good show for the fans. I ain’t ever taken a fight just because somebody has been running off their mouth. If Khan gets his fight - it will be because I think he deserves a shot."