News - Amir Khan

Dmitriy Salita has stoked up the pressure ahead of his crunch clash with Amir Khan by branding the British boxer as ‘chinny’. Salita, 27 and the holder of a 30-0-1 (16) record, told The Jewish Community online that Amir’s chin won’t be able to pass the power test come December the 5th read more ...

WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan may follow in the footsteps of his countryman Audley Harrison by leaving Britain and making a permanent move to America. During a recent interview, Harrison claimed to have left the UK because the boxing media and the fans were so negative that he found it impossible to continue his career in the country read more ...

WBA junior welterweight champion Amir Khan has compared the style of his next opponent, unbeaten Dmitriy Salita, to ex-champ Andreas Kotelnik. Khan defends against Salita on December 5 in Newcastle. Khan says the style of Salita is going to hurt him due to a suspect defense. Khan says Salita will provide him with the perfect fight to showcase his skills read more ...

Finally. That was the one word that seemed to echo in the head of junior welterweight Dmitriy Salita this week. After years of waiting and negotiating and more waiting for a title fight, the unbeaten 140-pounder from Brooklyn, New York finally secured his dream: a shot at WBA title-holder Amir Khan. Salita (30-0-1, 16 KO’s) will box Khan read more ...

Amir Khan will make the first defence of his world title against Dmitriy Salita at the Metro Radio Arena in Newcastle on Saturday 5th December promoter Frank Warren confirmed today. Khan, who won the WBA light-welterweight belt in July with a punch-perfect performance over Andreas Kotelnik, faces a hard first defence against the new star of American boxing read more ...

A source out of Argentina is stating that a bout between newly crowned WBA super lightweight champion Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KOs) and WBA interim super light weight champion Marcos Maidana (26-1, 25 KOs) could be in the works for October in England read more ...

In a clash of former Olympic silver medalists, Amir Khan (21-1, 15 KOs) won the WBA super lightweight championship by outboxing reigning titleholder Andreas Kotelnik (31-3-1, 13 KOs) on Saturday night at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England. Khan, who moved up from lightweight, was busier in round one. Kotelnik upped the pressure in round two as Khan boxed from long range. That was pattern of the fight as the counter-puncher Kotelnik was forced to take more of an aggressor’s role against read more ...

WBA super lightweight champion Andreas Kotelnik (31-2-1, 13 KOs) and challenger Amir Khan (20-1, 15 KOs) met head-to-head today to discuss their world title showdown on Saturday night at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester, England read more ...

WBA super lightweight world champion Andreas Kotelnik says he will beat Amir Khan at the M.E.N Arena in Manchester, England on July 18 and dedicate the victory to his hero the late Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance, whose family also came from the city of Lviv in the Ukraine. In the early 1940s, Palance, who was born Volodymyr Palahniuk, he was a heavyweight prospect, winning his first 15 fights before WWII cut short his career read more ...

Amir Khan's trainer, Freddie Roach, has unleashed on WBA junior welterweight champ Andreas Kotelnik, accusing him of faking a tooth infection that caused the fight with Khan to get postponed to July 18 at the MEN Arena in Manchester. Promoter Frank Warren hopes the withdrawal will work to their advantage by getting Khan's fight on HBO read more ...