Amir Khan Plans To Ignore "Jealous" Carl Froch
By Mark Vester
WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan will not go any further in the war of words with WBC super middleweight champion Carl Froch. Over the last year, the two British fighters have exchanged plenty of words in the press. It all started when Froch was critical of Khan's loss to Breidis Prescott and his title win over Andreas Kotelnik. Khan has called Froch a jealous fighter. Froch shot back over the weekend and told Khan to "grow up." He vowed to continue speaking his mind on Khan's career.
Khan told Express & Star that he plans to ignore Froch's comments in the future. He sees no reason to continue their verbal battle.
“I think it’s childish, talking about another fighter, and I think that he has shown that he is just jealous. He is making himself look silly and it’s always the same thing – me, Joe Calzaghe, Ricky Hatton, even David Haye get the treatment from him," Khan said.
“It makes you think, what don’t you just support people Carl? We are both different weights, would never meet in the ring, so what’s his problem? Maybe that is the way it is when someone’s career is not going the way they want it to go. He’s 32, I am 23, and I am already doing the things that he has done. Maybe it’s just jealousy, and I am just going to ignore him.”
Khan also touched on his recent controversial comments having to do with his race. In an interview with the press, Khan said his status would be much bigger if his skin color was white. He claims the comments were taken out of context and twisted by the press.
“Those comments were taken out of context, my point was that you got a lot of haters in this sport. My criticism was more of these guys that keep taking a pop at me whatever I do, I suppose it was getting close to a fight and I was a bit agitated," Khan said.
“I didn’t mean it the way it has been reported, because the support I have got is tremendous. But there are a lot of haters in this game and they can get you down, from now on they will only motivate to do better as a boxer. I don’t mind if they hate me now, my actions will prove them wrong. It will only make me a better fighter.”
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