Amir Khan Boxing Profile

24 April 2013 04:40

Amir Khan is a English professional boxer. He is a former four-time world champion by winning WBA (Regular), WBA (Super) twice and IBF Light Welterweight titles.

He previously boxed in the lightweight division, where he held the Commonwealth, WBO Inter-Continental, and WBA International titles.

Khan is the youngest British Olympic boxing medalist, winning silver at the 2004 Athens Olympics at the age of 17. He is also one of the youngest British world champions ever, winning the WBA Light Welterweight title at age 22.

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.

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. One of his notable early amateur fights was against Victor Ortíz, whom he defeated in a second round stoppage.

Khan qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by finishing in first place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 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. 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.

Soon after Khan joined with new trainer Virgil Hunter it was announced that he would make his comeback fight against undefeated Mexican-American, Carlos Molina (17–0, 7 KOs). The fight was aired on Showtime, on 15 December 2012, and took place in the LA Sports Arena in California. Khan defeated Molina by TKO in the tenth round and won the WBC Silver Light Welterweight title.

Boxing Record:

Total Fights: 30

Wins: 27

Wins by KO: 19

Losses:3

Draws: 0

Nickname(s): King

Rated at: Lightweight, Light Welterweight.

D.O.B 08/12/86

Stance: Orthodox.

Trainers:

Oliver Harrison [Jul 05 - Apr 08]

Jorge Rubio [Jul 08 - Sep 08]

Freddie Roach [Oct 08 - Sep 12]

Virgil Hunter [Sep 12 - present]

Source: DSG