Team Peterson: We Were Right To Wait On Khan Fight
It was never a fight they didn’t want, just one where Lamont Peterson’s handlers demanded greater incentive in order to accept.
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Bradley's List: Pacquiao First, Mayweather, Khan, Maidana
WBO junior welterweight champion Timothy Bradley is expected to return in early 2012. The undefeated champion is spending time with his family after recently making his debut under the Top Rank promotional banner. Bradley (28-0, 12KO) stopped Joel Casamayor on November 12th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Bradley's fight received major media coverage because Top Rank positioned the bout in a co-feature slot to the latest entry in the Manny Pacquiao-Juan Manuel Marquez trilogy. The bout was his first in nearly 10 months after separating from former promoters Gary Shaw Productions and Thompson Boxing. Bradley is ready for all of the big names and WBO welterweight champion Manny Pacquiao is the main target.
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Peterson: If Khan is Hurt, I’m Definitely Going For The Kill
The offer wasn’t right. Lamont Peterson had turned down a chance to face Amir Khan for a junior-welterweight world title, unhappy with the money that was being offered him.
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Hatton: Khan Has The Style To Give Mayweather Problems
Promoter and former two division champion Ricky Hatton is giving close friend and countryman Amir Khan, the WBA and International Boxing Federation light-welterweight champion, a very good shot at beating WBC welterweight titleholder Floyd Mayweather Jr. Hatton suffered his first professional loss to Mayweather by tenth round TKO in 2007. Hatton says the loss was an issue of 'styles make fights,' and he feels Khan has the style to give Mayweather problems.
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Seth Mitchell on His Struggle, Khan Grabs British Honors
Washington, DC...Seth "Mayhem" Mitchell will take the biggest step of his thus far unconventional professional boxing career on Saturday, Dec. 10 against Timur Ibragimov in the co-featured bout to the "Capital Showdown: Khan vs. Peterson" championship fight taking place at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC which will be televised live on HBO's World Championship Boxing. Mitchell's transformation from a standout linebacker at Michigan State University into a professional boxer is the most well-known part of his personal narrative. However, it is his raw athletic talent, coupled with certain serendipitous events that have led him to a promising career as a heavyweight pugilist.
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Guerrero: I'm Not 'Amir Con Artist,' I Want Mayweather Jr.
Former multi-division champion Robert "The Ghost" Guerrero sits down to discuss a recent poll where experts gave their opinions on a possible future clash between himself and WBC welterweight king Floyd Mayweather Jr. Guerrero gave his opinion on the trilogy clash between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez and even took a shot at WBA/IBF junior welterweight champ Amir Khan.
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Peterson: I'm The Toughest Foe Khan Has Ever Faced
Lamont Peterson reckons he is the toughest opponent Amir Khan has faced. The man who calls himself 'Havoc' will challenge the current WBA super and IBF light welterweight champion on December 10th, live on HBO and Sky Sports HD. It will be Khan's sixth title defence in two years and he will begin as the heavy favourite at the Convention Center in what could be his last fight at 140lbs.
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Hearn: Khan Should Drop Mayweather Dreams, Fight Brook!
Amir Khan should stop dreaming of a fight with Floyd Mayweather and fight a more realistic opponent in Kell Brook – That’s the view of Matchroom’s Eddie Hearn, who wants to see a welterweight showdown between the two in 2012.
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Khan: After Peterson, Maybe Berto or Senchenko at 147
IBF and WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan will be fighting Lamont Peterson on December 10th but it looks like this may be his last fight at 140lbs. Khan says he’s willing to stay at 140 for the right fight but he doesn’t believe it will ever come.
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Khan Clears The Air on Pacquiao Retirement Comments
WBA/IBF junior welterweight champion Amir Khan is disputing the comments that were recently published in The Daily Telegraph, which quoted the British boxer as stating that he planned to advise stablemate Manny Pacquiao to retire after watching the Filipino superstar struggle in his recent fight with Juan Manuel Marquez. Khan, who wanted to clear the air on the story, told BoxingScene.com - "I don't remember saying that." Both Khan and Pacquiao are trained by Freddie Roach at the Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles, California.
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