British boxer Amir Khan closer to Title fight

Amir Khan (born December 8, 1986) is a British boxer from Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. He is the current Commonwealth lightweight champion and is ranked # 3 by the WBO and # 5 by the WBC. He is also ranked # 7 by the Ring Magazine and # 6 by Boxrec.[1] Khan has won all his professional fights to date.

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Khan was born and raised in Bolton, Lancashire and is an avid supporter of his local football club, Bolton Wanderers, where he uses the club’s training facilities at the Reebok Stadium. [2]

Khan belongs to the Janjua Rajput clan[3][4] of Matore in Rawalpindi Pakistan[5] which has a long and well documented history of warrior kings and a strong martial reputation.

He was educated at Smithills School in Bolton and Bolton Community College. His first cousin is the England fast bowler Sajid Mahmood and his younger brother, Haroon Khan, is an amateur boxer.[6] He was a hyperactive child and “a born fighter”, according to his father, who encouraged him to take up boxing.

He often uses his position as a well-known British Muslim to encourage better relations between British Muslims and the wider community, particularly in his home town of Bolton.

Khan’s early life and career has been documented in a book titled Amir Khan: a Boy from Bolton (ISBN 0747587604; published July 2007) and he has also released a DVD of his first nine fights.
Amateur
Khan began boxing 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.[7] 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.[7] Khan then rose to fame as Britain’s sole representative in boxing at the 2004 Athens Olympics, winning a silver medal at the age of 17 in the lightweight boxing category. He was Britain’s youngest Olympic boxer since Colin Jones in 1976. He lost in the final to Mario Kindelan, the Cuban who had also beaten him several months earlier in the pre-Olympic match-ups in Greece. In 2005 he avenged the two losses by beating the 34 year old Kindelan in his final amateur fight.

Amir Khan stops Kristjansen, moves closer to world title fight

LONDON: Lightweight Amir Khan stopped Dane Martin Kristjansen in the seventh round in Bolton on Saturday to close in on a world title fight. The British Olympic silver medal winner was given a tough examination by Kristjansen before unleashing a powerful combination of punches to end the WBO eliminator. Khan’s record since turning professional after the Athens Olympics now stands at 17-0 while Kristjansen, who had not been stopped before in his 24 fights, suffered his second defeat.

The 21-year-old Khan began at a fast pace and looked capable of finishing the fight in the first couple of rounds. However, Kristjansen used his experience to weather the storm. Khan slowed in the fifth and sixth rounds but then caught Kristjansen with a rapid succession of punches in the seventh to put him down and force a standing eight count. Khan, who also received a warning for punching while his opponent was on the floor, finished the job in style by launching another attack moments later, sending Kristjansen to the canvas twice more before the referee ended the fight. Khan’s manager Frank Warren said there was no rush to secure a world title fight. “He will fight again in June, maybe in the States,” Warren told the BBC. “I’m sure we will get some news from the WBO in the next few weeks and we’ll see where we go from there.” reuters