Comments Thread For: Amir Khan Open To The Idea of Going For Olympic Gold

[Grimmer]

There is no headgear in amateur boxing any more.

[The plunger man]

It's wrong point blank...amatuer is a totally differnt platform to the pros, it's like your apprenticeship or college years ....your a complete compared to a pro boxer, amatuer boxing if you become good takes on to bigger things, turning pro winning titles, amateurs have to work they don't get paid to train and fight so straight away they are at an disadvantage against a pro fighter.....it's bonkers really bonkers.....and the sport moans about safety and yet there thinking of making amateurs and pros fight.....this ain't golf or tennis....it's a physical sport where people can get hurt and this will cause injurys I gurantee you that

[285Kid]

He can't do it , Rumors were saying the rules is on for pro fighters with less then 15 fights .. Rigo got 15 he can do it right now

[sako5]

There is no headgear in amateur boxing any more.

Khan just changed his opinion and is now AGAINST pro fighters competing in the olympics.

[b00g13man]

Khan just changed his opinion and is now AGAINST pro fighters competing in the olympics.

[NEETzsche]

most other olympic sports are no longer strictly limited to amateurs, and the tournament is after all supposed to represent the very best that a country has to offer. the younger amateurs would still have the world championships exclusively to themselves, and perhaps an exception could be made in the youth olympics to allow slightly older boxers to compete (being a sport with a later prime than most others). it would be cool to see matches like golovkin-lópez and kovalev-la cruz in the olympics. but then it might be anticlimactic to see highly publicised rivalries between top pros, like golovkin-quillin and kovalev-stevenson, settled summarily in three rounds as part of a round robin tournament

[Eff Pandas]

He can't do it , Rumors were saying the rules is on for pro fighters with less then 15 fights .. Rigo got 15 he can do it right now

LOL, but hell man with how Rigo's career is going this might actually be a productive move for him. He'd certainly get to fight more often.

[mike1010011]

Well damn,looks like rigo and lomanchenko are going back to the Olympics.

[PAC-BOY]

Khan gets caught cold on the first round once in his career and he has no chin. lol The level of ******ity on here his funny as ***.

Oh and just in case some dip shlt cries "what about Garcia"...Khan took some massive shots in that fight before (being waved of) with a TKO from none other than ,Mr Kenny Bayless of all refs. Id say his chin was pretty ***ing solid in that fight.

[SteveM]

I read somewhere it was limited to pros with only a few fights, 10-15 I think so Khan or Wlad or anyone else at that level is unlikely.

Maybe only way that Rigo and Loma will ever fight?