Gift from Nate Campbell?
Amir Khan could get world title shot | The Sun |Sport|Boxing
Gift from Nate Campbell?
Amir Khan could get world title shot | The Sun |Sport|Boxing
oh god no
Amir Khan with a world title would be like giving free fireworks out to hoodie kids!!
You`ll never hear the fucking end of it
one dangerous horrible bloke
AMIR KHAN is close to getting his crack at the world title — just four months after getting knocked out in 54 seconds.
Lightweight Khan’s career was at the crossroads when he was sparked by Breidis Prescott in Manchester last December.
But the Bolton boy, 22, gets an unexpected chance against Marco Antonio Barrera in Manchester on March 14 after Nate Campbell was stripped of his titles.
American Campbell could not make the nine-stone weight limit for his clash against Ali Funeka.
Saturday’s fight went ahead with Campbell winning on points — but at catchweight. He was forced to forfeit his WBA, IBF and WBO belts.
Promoter Frank Warren said: “Khan v Barrera might well become a title fight. I hope the WBO will sanction it.”
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Hang on Warren I thought the winner was going to fight Alex Arthur
I predicted this () when they said it will be for an interim title.
Even if Campbell still had the WBO belt, there was already talk of him letting it go to pursue bigger fights up in weight.
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Well Barrera is ranked number 2 with 1 of them, is it WBO? So its only fair that he fights for it. he happens to be fighting Khan so lets make it a title fight.
But then I think about Khan, I like Khan and Boltons only 1 town away from me so a local lad too. But I wouldnt say he deserved his chance or earnt his chance. I think hes just landed lucky on this. But fair play.
I also see that not that many people have their money on Barrera to beat Khan, they see him as perfectly suited to Khans style. Hows Barrera ranked 2, Khan 7 and all the boxers hes been dodging who have a domestic or european titles are all ranked below and havnt landed lucky and aint gettin a title shot?
Prescott must be p***** off if Khan gets a title shot having blow him away in under a minute.
sadly boxing politics at work once again.
Had funeka of won on saturday night he would of still been unable to claim the championships he was fighting for because his opponent had failed to make the weight.
So his opponent starts with a 2-3 pound advantage and even then if he overcomes the odds to win the fight he gets punished because of his opponents failings??
If this does become a world title fight it`ll just make my burning desire for a barrera win just that bit stronger!
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I'm going to pray every night about this. IF it becomes a title fight, yes I'm a Barrera fan and want him to win but Christ on a bike, Khan has done nothing to deserve it. The man who beat him - where's he? The only positive thing to come from this is if he beats Barrera (please god no) then Khan gets to mix it with the big boys and knocked out in every meaningful fight that is left of his career.
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There's even less chance of Khan fighting the big boys should he (FW) get hold of the WBO belt.
They'll get at least half-a-dozen defences as "world" champ out of it. Amongst the unknown no-name challengers there'll be a few Brit superfights with Alex Arthur (cert), Nicky Cook and Ricky Burns.
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