By Mark Vester
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan, and undefeated European lightweight champion John Murray have gone back to their domestic war of words in the British press. Khan blasted Murray's recent claims that he's ducking a fight. He said the Euro champ was offered a shot and didn't take it. He sees Murray as an easy night of work.
“Murray’s name has popped up and honestly that fight would be a dream come true for me because it would be an easy fight. It would be a boxing lesson against someone who’s been mouthing off for a long, long time. He was offered the fight when I was with Frank Warren and he didn’t take it, but people think I’m the one ducking him,” Khan told British boxing magazine, Boxing News.
Murray sees Khan as a fraud. He says the WBA champion is always picking on smaller fighters or opponents without punching power. He wants to expose Khan before the British public.
“I am more than happy to take the fight and I would expose him for the fraud he is. I think he’s conned the British public. He’s not a fighter. He's not fought anyone yet. He’s offering fights to me, Katsidis and Casamayor, who are all lightweights. He’s not willing to fight anyone from his own division," Murray said.
“His camp know he’s not very good and he’s an accident waiting to happen. He’s looking to fight people at a lower weight because he knows that as soon as he fights someone decent at his own weight he’s going to get knocked out. But I hope he takes the fight because I will show him up for the fraud he is.”
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