Amir Khan: record, next fight and profile →
Five-time Trainer of the Year, Freddie Roach, set the record straight with BoxingScene.com concerning whether or not eight-division king and WBO welterweight titlist, Manny Pacquiao, would ever face WBA junior welterweight champion, Amir Khan.
WBO/WBC junior welterweight champion Timothy "Desert Storm" Bradley wasn't too impressed by WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan's most recent performance. Khan defeated Paul McCloskey via technical decision on Saturday in Manchester, England. Bradley watched the performance on HBO and told BoxingScene.com, "If he is going to fight like that against me it is going to be easy work for me."
According to Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer, an agreement was reached to extend the promotional agreement with WBA junior welterweight king Amir Khan (25-1, 17KOs). The British star has signed a new multi-fight deal with Golden Boy. Last Saturday night in Manchester, Khan won a unanimous six round technical decision over Irish fighter Paul McCloskey.
Five-time Trainer of the Year, Freddie Roach, set the record straight with BoxingScene.com concerning whether or not eight-division king and WBO welterweight titlist, Manny Pacquiao, would ever face WBA junior welterweight champion, Amir Khan.
Oscar De La Hoya has burned Amir Khan's bridges with Sky by launching an ill-advised attack on Britain's leading boxing broadcaster.
Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar De La Hoya admitted that Paul McCloskey deserves another shot at WBA 140-pound champion Amir Khan. Last Saturday at the MEN Arena in Manchester, the fight was stopped in the sixth round after a clash of heads opened up a cut above the left eye of McCloskey. The ringside doctor stopped the fight and Khan won a six round technical decision.
A story has been circulating which claims that Coach Freddie Roach is pushing the winner of the Amir Khan-Timothy Bradley 140-pound unification to take on Manny Pacquiao, next. Roach is the head trainer for Pacquiao and Khan. The story is a sick joke.
Hammer-fisted super lightweight contender Breidis "The Khanqueror" Prescott (23-2, 19 KOs) says he enjoyed watching HBO's broadcast of WBA Light Welterweight Champion Amir Khan's dominant TD6 over little-known Paul McCloskey at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester last Saturday night. "They showed me knocking Khan out in the highlights before the fight," said the proud Colombian. For those who don't recall, Prescott delivered Khan (25-1, 17 KOs) a Sleep-o-Gram wrapped in leather and laid waste to his undefeated record in 54 seconds in September 2008 at the very same M.E.N. Arena.
In boxing, sometimes you are adjudged to have lost even when you win, and Amir Khan (139lb) had one of those nights at the MEN Arena in Manchester on Saturday night when stopping Ireland's Paul McCloskey (139lb) on a TKO after an accidental clash of heads opened up a cut on the Dungiven man's brow in round six. Referee Luis Pabon called over the ring doctor to inspect the injury and the fight was officially waved off at 2:30 of the session.
Look out for the banana skin! It wasn't a good weekend for unbeaten records last weekend, as two future stars of the boxing world had zeros removed by unheralded opponents.