Amir Khan says the fight between former five-division champion Floyd Mayweather and UFC’s Conor McGregor will benefit boxing.

The two will meet in the boxing ring in Las Vegas on 26 August.

‘To combine both sports is going to be great for boxing more than MMA,’ said Britain’s former light-welterweight world champion Khan, 30. ‘We are not getting the good pay-per-view numbers we used to.

‘At the moment, MMA and UFC are doing so many great numbers on TV, on pay-per-view. Boxing is doing OK, but it took little bit of a dip.

‘We hit a wall and we didn’t really do anything. Boxing never moved forward around the world, whereas MMA kept moving forward and got bigger and bigger and bigger. Boxing kind of stalled in my opinion and we needed something like this.’

Mayweather will reportedly earn around $100-million from the bout and McGregor around $75-million.

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Mayweather, 40, will come out of retirement and look to improve on his 49-0 record when he takes on the 28-year-old McGregor, who has never boxed professionally.

Khan, who lost his last fight in 2016, has not been able to secure a fight with Mayweather, but still hopes to set up a fight with either the American or former eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao.

‘When Mayweather beats McGregor, which I think he will, that fight can still be there. It really can happen,’ said Khan, who has 31 wins from 35 fights. ‘There are still some big fights out there for me.’