Amir Khan is an English professional boxer, ex-world welterweight champion according to the WBA (from 2009 to 2012) and according to the IBF in 2011. Among other things, he held the WBC Silver title from 2007 to 2008. In his professional career, Khan spent 35 fights, including 31 wins (19 by knockout) and 4 losses. Every amateur and professional will envy his boxing technique.
Amir is a completely non-standard boxer, who, due to his good double-timing, can knock out an opponent at the most unexpected moment. He also has rather long arms, which is considered a big advantage in light and welterweight. Khan's fighting style is work under the second number and the eternal expectation when the opponent is exhausted. It was at this moment that boxing fights ended with a knockout after a successful counterattack by Amir.
Boxer Amir Khan: biography
He was born on December 8 in 1986 in the city of Bolton, Lancashire (ceremonial non-metropolitan county in the North-West of England, near the coast of the Irish Sea), England. From the age of six he began to engage in boxing. He studied at the Smithils School in Bolton, and then graduated from Community College. Amir Khan, a Muslim by nationality, is a member of the Sukfi Order of Naqshbandi. Khan has two sisters and one brother, who is also an aspiring pro boxer (his stats are 6-0). Amir also has a cousin - English cricketer Sajid Mahmoud (a native of Pakistan).
Boxer Achievements
In his amateur career, Amir Khan won the silver lightweight medal at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain's youngest Olympic triumph at the age of seventeen. By the way, the boxer is also the youngest champion in British boxing history according to the WBA (at the age of 22). In July 2011, editors of a newspaper called the International Business Times published the top athletes in the Pound for pound category (ranking fighters of all disciplines, regardless of weight category), where Amir Khan took eighth line. In April 2012, the BoxRec rating (the world-famous web portal dedicated to boxing) assigned the British 13th position among all the fighters in the world.
