If they want him to fight stateside I imagine they will go for a guy with a high profile name but not too dangerous.

Malignaggi would be a great choice, and he'd be fighting a guy who Hatton beat so the chance to make direct comparisons. If he beat Malignaggi it could nicely set up a fight between Khan and Hatton for next year.

I'm presuming Khan will stay at junior welter now.

By they way is nobody going to give the young Khan any credit for moving up a weight class and fighting for and winning a world title in (virtually) his first fight at the weight?

How many fighters have done that? Marquez, Pacquaio, Floyd.......not bad company methinks.

Hatton looked awful against Collazo and he was no more highly rated than Kotelnik at the time, merely seen as an unknown paper champ.