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Amir Khan: ‘I’d be a superstar if I was white’
Ron Lewis
Amir Khan: "Sometimes you don't see the appreciation"
Amir Khan, the boxer who was portrayed as a perfect image of multicultural Britain when he won an Olympic silver medal in 2004, said that he would be a bigger star if he was white.
Khan, 22, has been booed regularly by boxing crowds in the past year despite winning a world title in July. “It’s probably jealousy and sometimes skin colour does make a difference,” the fighter said. “I would be a superstar in Britain. I never get racial remarks [said to my face], but it’s always out there, which you can’t stop. You just live and learn about what people are like. I just choose to ignore them.”
He makes the first defence of his WBA light-welterweight title against Dmitri Salita in Newcastle upon Tyne tonight, but has said that he would like to box next year in the United States, where he now trains. He said that he suffered abuse after losing in September last year to Breidis Prescott, of Colombia, which was his only professional defeat.
“Straight after the Prescott fight, when people said, ‘He’s finished’, there were racial remarks made. If you go on the message boards and chat forums there are always people who have to get the religious thing in. But it made me stronger, it made me come back stronger and made be a better fighter
He is pissing and moaning that he should be a bigger "super star" and he would be if he was white.
No, he isn't a superstar because he has a ridiculously fragile chin and goes down like a rag doll. The idiot has no punch resistance and will never be elite.
Also, ******s aren't exactly popular right now in the world, and the brits don't like having an Immigrant like Khan pretend he is English. But thats more of a cultural thing than really a racial thing.
Ron Lewis
Amir Khan: "Sometimes you don't see the appreciation"
Amir Khan, the boxer who was portrayed as a perfect image of multicultural Britain when he won an Olympic silver medal in 2004, said that he would be a bigger star if he was white.
Khan, 22, has been booed regularly by boxing crowds in the past year despite winning a world title in July. “It’s probably jealousy and sometimes skin colour does make a difference,” the fighter said. “I would be a superstar in Britain. I never get racial remarks [said to my face], but it’s always out there, which you can’t stop. You just live and learn about what people are like. I just choose to ignore them.”
He makes the first defence of his WBA light-welterweight title against Dmitri Salita in Newcastle upon Tyne tonight, but has said that he would like to box next year in the United States, where he now trains. He said that he suffered abuse after losing in September last year to Breidis Prescott, of Colombia, which was his only professional defeat.
“Straight after the Prescott fight, when people said, ‘He’s finished’, there were racial remarks made. If you go on the message boards and chat forums there are always people who have to get the religious thing in. But it made me stronger, it made me come back stronger and made be a better fighter
He is pissing and moaning that he should be a bigger "super star" and he would be if he was white.
No, he isn't a superstar because he has a ridiculously fragile chin and goes down like a rag doll. The idiot has no punch resistance and will never be elite.
Also, ******s aren't exactly popular right now in the world, and the brits don't like having an Immigrant like Khan pretend he is English. But thats more of a cultural thing than really a racial thing.
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