News - Amir Khan

The fight with Marco Antonio Barrera and Amir Khan, scheduled for March 14 at the MEN Arena in Manchester, could have the vacant WBO lightweight title at stake. Last Friday, Nate Campbell lost the title on the scales when he was unable to make weight for his mandatory IBF title defense with Ali Funeka. Barrera is ranked at number one by the WBO and Khan comes in at number nine. read more ...

Despite suffering a bad cut in Saturday night's bout against Freudis Rojas in Jalisco, Mexico, former three-division champion Marco Antonio Barrera plans to move forward with his bout against Amir Khan on March 14 at the MEN Arena in Manchester. Rojas, a late replacement with a record of 1-7, struck Barrera with a missile-like head shot that opened up a cut above Barrera's left eye in the third round. read more ...

2004 Olympic silver medal Amir Khan has vowed to outbox, and beat former three-division champion Marco Antonio Barrera on March 14 in a UK venue to be annoucned at a later date. Khan has one win in the books since being knocked out by Breidis Prescott in 54-seconds last September, but he is confident of beating the legendary veteran. Khan says that he took such a tough fight to shut the mouths of his critics. read more ...

Lightweight contender Amir Khan (19-1, 15 KOs) will fight Mexican legend and former multi-weight world champion Marco Antonio Barrera (64-6, 43 KOs) on March 14 it was confirmed by promoter Frank Warren today. No venue has been confirmed for the mouth-watering showdown, although Warren did say that it would take place in the UK with a normal UK start time. Khan will benefit from having the input of Freddie Roach read more ...

In a WBO lightweight eliminator, unbeaten Amir Khan (17-0, 13 Kos) scored a seventh round stoppage of Martin Kristjansen (19-2-3, 5 KOs) on Saturday night at tghe Bolton Arena in Bolton, England. Khan floored Kristjansen three times in the seventh read more ...

Both Amir Khan and Martin Kristjansen weighed within the 135lb lightweight limit to set up their official elimination bout to determine the official challenger for WBO lightweight champion Nate Campbell, or possibly WBO interim lightweight champion Joel Casamayor. Amir Khan 134.5 vs Martin Kristjansen 134.25 (WBO lightweight eliminator) read more ...

Commonwealth lightweight titleholder Amir Khan (16-0, 12 KOs) scored a one-sided twelve round unanimous decision over former IBF junior lightweight world champion Gairy St Clair (39-6-2, 17 KOs) on Saturday night at the ExCel Arena in London. Judges had it a shutout, 120-108 across the board. It was the biggest win yet in the career of the 21-year-old British phenom read more ...

Former world champion Gairy St Clair has vowed to celebrate his 33rd birthday on Saturday with a devastating KO of Amir Khan when they meet for the Commonwealth lightweight crown at London's ExCel Arena. Today St Clair performed a brief media work out at the Peacock Gym in the East End and promised to blow-out Khan's flame. "I've seen a few of Amir's fights, and he likes sticking his chin out," said St Clair read more ...

Olympian lightweight Amir Khan (15-0, 12 KOs) needed just 74 seconds to destroy Graham Earl (25-3, 12 KOs), retaining his Commonwealth title at the Bolton Arena in in Bolton. Khan dropped Earl with a left hand and got the stoppage moments later in his most impressive performance to date. In his previous fight, Earl fought Michael Katsidis for the WBO interim title read more ...