The break-up was blamed on Harrison's concerns that Khan's public engagements were interfering with his fight preparations.
#Amir khan boxer professional
After Khan's victory, he was ranked second, behind only Joel Casamayor.įollowing the fight, Khan split from his trainer Oliver Harrison, the trainer for all of his previous 17 professional contests. Before the contest, the fighters had been ranked third and fourth respectively by the WBO. On 5 April 2008, Khan beat Kristjansen in the seventh round of a WBO lightweight Title Eliminator. This was his first fight to last all 12 rounds and was won via a unanimous 120–108 scoring from all three ringside judges. On 2 February 2008, Khan was scheduled to fight Martin Kristjansen, but illness forced the Dane to withdraw and instead Khan beat Australian Gary St Clair in a contest for the Commonwealth lightweight title at the ExCel Arena in London. Professional career Lightweight Early career
2004 – Won a gold medal at the European Student Championships and the World Junior Championships.2003 – Won a gold medal at the AAU Junior Olympic Games.In 2005, he avenged the two losses by beating the 34-year-old Kindelan in his last amateur fight. He lost in the final to Mario Kindelán, the Cuban who had also beaten him several months earlier in the pre-Olympic match-ups in Greece. He was Britain's youngest Olympic boxer since Colin Jones in 1976. He was Britain's sole representative in boxing at the Athens Games, winning a silver medal at the age of 17 in the lightweight boxing category. Khan qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by finishing in first place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Overall, he compiled an amateur record of 101–9. One of his notable early amateur fights was against Victor Ortíz, whom he defeated in a second round stoppage. In early 2004 he won a gold medal at the European Student Championships in Lithuania, and in South Korea several months later he won world junior lightweight title after fighting five times in seven days. Khan began to box competitively at the age of 11, with early honours including three English school titles, three junior ABA titles, and gold at the 2003 Junior Olympics. He is the first cousin of English cricketer Sajid Mahmood, related through a paternal grandfather, Lal Khan Janjua, who moved to England after being discharged from the Pakistan Army. Khan has two sisters and one brother, Haroon "Harry" Khan, an undefeated professional boxer. Khan is Muslim, and a member of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, along with being an active supporter of the Muslim Writers Awards. He was educated at Smithills School in Bolton, and Bolton Community College. Khan was born and raised in Bolton, Greater Manchester, to a Punjabi Rajput family with roots in Matore village of Kahuta Tehsil, located in Rawalpindi district of the Punjab, Pakistan. Outside of boxing, he has worked as a philanthropist and mixed martial arts promoter. As of October 2016, The Ring magazine ranks him as the world's third best welterweight.
In July 2011 the International Business Times ranked Khan as the world's 8th best boxer, pound for pound, while BoxRec ranked him 13th best, pound for pound, in April 2016. He is also one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of 22. Additionally he held the Commonwealth lightweight title from 2007 to 2008, the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2014 to 2016, and has challenged once for a middleweight world title in 2016.Īs an amateur, Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the age of 17. He is a former unified light-welterweight world champion, having held the WBA (later Super) title from 2009 to 2012, and the IBF title in 2011. Amir Iqbal Khan (born 8 December 1986) is a British professional boxer.
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