London - Boxing ace Amir Khan is using Leicester City’s shock triumph of the Premier League title as inspiration ahead of the biggest fight of his life. The 29-year-old star is moving up two-weight divisions to take on the formidable middleweight world champion Canelo Alvarez this Saturday night, exclusively live on BoxNation.
NEW YORK – Shawn Porter doesn’t view the Canelo Alvarez-Amir Khan fight as the mismatch many consider it. The former IBF welterweight champion “wouldn’t be surprised” if Khan pulled off an upset Saturday night in their HBO Pay-Per-View main event at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. Khan (31-3, 19 KOs), who has been stopped in lightweight and junior welterweight fights, is nearly a 4-1 underdog approaching a WBC middleweight title fight against Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) that’ll be contested at a catch weight of 155 pounds.
As Amir Khan's audacious WBC and linear middleweight title (weight asterisk included) challenge approaches, Boxingscene took a Copperbox ringside poll to gauge how boxing insiders feel Khan will fare against the young Mexican champion in Las Vegas next Saturday night.
Heavyweight legend and former two-time world champion George Foreman has warned that Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs) needs to stay focused and not get overconfident in the upcoming fight with Amir Khan (31-3, 19KOs).
In 2008, Golden Boy Promotions President Oscar de la Hoya was the heavily favored opponent of Manny Pacquiao, who was moving from lightweight to the welterweight division.
Veteran trainer Robert Garcia is standing firm to his opinion that former world champion Amir Khan (31-3, 19KOs) will make things very tough for WBC middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KO).
Eddy Reynoso, trainer of WBC middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs), believes Amir Khan (31-3, 19KOs) has a much stronger chin that many give him credit for.
Former four division world champion Juan Manuel Marquz is pleading with WBC middleweight champion Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez, and his promoter Oscar De La Hoya of Golden Boy Promotions, to make a deal for a fall fight with IBO/WBA/IBF champion Gennady 'GGG' Golovkin.
Bolton’s Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs) goes into next weekend’s meeting with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 early) as a huge underdog, but the 29-year-old is relishing the opportunity to upset the odds and believes he can walk away from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas with a huge win and the linear middleweight title to his name.
Hall of Fame trainer Nacho Beristain, believes there are too many factors in favor of Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez (46-1-1, 32KOs) - who defends the WBC middleweight title against Amir Khan on May 7th from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.