Daily Star (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW European lightweight champ Jon Thaxton says it would be suicidal'' if Amir Khan tried to climb into the same ring as him right now.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
A boxer can do a hundred abdominal crunches, a thousand press-ups and dance with a skipping rope all day. He can learn the art of attack and defence. But one question, particularly pertinent to Amir Khan, continues to vex even the wisest boxing brains (and that is not an oxymoron) - can anything be done about a glass chin?
Boxing Blog - TheSweetScience.com (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
A tidbit I forgot to share… Freddie Roach told me that new client Amir Khan will give Manny Pacquiao sparring leading up to the Dec. 6 Oscar/Manny tiff. Also, New Yorker Yuri Foreman will be brought in to give an Oscar-type look.
BBC Sport (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Amir Khan is confident he can rebuild his career under the tutelage of renowned American Freddie Roach.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Jon Thaxton claimed the knockout punch that crowned him European lightweight champion was the reason Amir Khan avoided him.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Amir Khan will take on an American sojourn under the tutelage of Freddie Roach renowned for distilling tactics lucidly and building his charges.
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Amir Khan will spar with Manny Pacquiao as he prepares to get his career back on track under new trainer Freddie Roach.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Amir Khan has promised to quit the high life in order to get his career back on course towards a world title shot.
The Independent (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Amir Khan finally confirmed that he will work with American trainer Freddie Roach in Los Angeles in the weeks before his expected return to the ring on 13 December.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Many boxers have learnt their biggest lessons taking the blows as sparring partner to a great name. Larry Holmes did many rounds in training with Muhammad Ali before going on to rule the heavyweight world, and, nearly a decade before he beat him in the ring, Jersey Joe Walcott was hired to provide target practice for Joe Louis. Amir Khan will look to rebuild his career taking punches from Manny Pacquiao,...
Premier League (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
Every now and then, you get a young pretender who talks high and mighty and threatens to dominate their chosen profession (Amir Khan a prime example). Usually the pretender enthuses his audience with promises of grandeur and exhuberance, before fading away to be remembered fleetingly as a has-been. Let's now ...
Daily Mail online | Sport (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Amir Khan has turned to Ricky Hatton for advice on how to come back from defeat as the young lightweight bids for a victorious return to the ring in December.
Creeping Sharia (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Amir Khan's knockout is a sign from Allah according to some "radical" Muslims. Hmm, what is a radical Muslim?
The UK Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Guardian corrections , Thursday September 18 2008. ' Amir Khan, who is a boxer, is not collaborating with Juliette Binoche on In-I at the National Theatre in London as we said in a headline. Akram Khan, who is a dancer and choreographer, is. ’ ' Some confusion crept into a report that defined heavy drinkers as those who regularly consume at least twice the daily guidelines of 35 units a week for women...
Free Bets Blog (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
They say ‘Pride comes before a fall’, well in Amir Khan’s case, it was the stinging left hook of Columbian, Breidis Prescott. And now just after one fight Khan has sacked his trainer Jorge Rubio. It all smacks of desperation, somehow. The trainer has been made the fall-guy, but there must be others accountable. The news [...]
