Amir Khan took a swipe at Manny Pacquiao for facing Chris Algieri in his World Boxing Organization welterweight title defense on Nov. 22 at the Venetian Casino & Resort in Macau, China.

In an interview with Mancunian Matters, Khan, who has been lobbying for a big-money fight over the past several months, said that they tried to get a fight against Pacquiao, but Top Rank Promotions did not take the offer.

"I said I wanted to fight Manny Pacquiao," Khan said. "I offered him the fight to Pacquiao's team recently and they didn't take it."

Khan blasted Top Rank Promotions CEO Bob Arum for picking Algieri for Pacquiao's next fight, saying that the reigning WBO light welterweight champion is a not a big name in boxing.

The Bolton, England, native said that, if Pacquiao and his camp want a big-money fight, they should have selected a big-name fighter like him.

"I got my team to speak to Bob Arum and we got nothing back, and they went with Algieri," Khan said. "He's a nobody. Well, he's not a nobody. You've got to respect him but he's not a big name, and if Manny Pacquiao wanted to make big money in boxing, he needs to fight big names."

Khan is coming off a dominating unanimous decision win against Luis Collazo in May, and the 27-year-old Briton believes that his victory might have affected Pacquiao's decision to face Algieri instead of him.

Algieri earned a shot at Pacquiao after scoring a split decision win against Ruslan Provodnikov in June last year, but most boxing analysts were surprised with Arum's decision to arrange the Pacquiao-Algieri bout.

The 30-year-old Huntington, New York native, who holds a perfect 20-0 record with eight knockouts, said that he is aware of all the criticism against him, but he vowed to prove his doubters wrong on fight night.

"I'm not here just for a payday. I'm not here just to fight Manny Pacquiao," Algieri recently said in a BoxingScene interview. "I'm coming to win this fight and I'm going to be fully prepared on fight night. Anyone who is looking past that fact doesn't know me and doesn't know anything about me, and that I belong to be here."

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