Khan taking on a monster

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Amir Khan to fight Phil lo Greco in Liverpool - first bout since 2016

Britain's Amir Khan will fight Canadian Phil lo Greco at the Liverpool Echo Arena on 21 April in his first bout for almost two years.

Khan, 31, was beaten by Saul Alvarez in a WBC middleweight title bout in May 2016, his most recent fight.

"He will be coming with everything to win this fight and I'm not going to give him an inch," said former light-welterweight world champion Khan.

"He's an aggressive fighter who is always looking to come forward."

Khan has won 31 and lost four of his 35 professional bouts, while Lo Greco, 33, has 28 wins and three defeats from 31 fights.

"Being my first fight in the UK, I'm excited about the crowd," said Lo Greco.

"I can't wait to feel that energy. As much as UK fans love their fighters, they love great fights and I promise just that. This night will go down as one of the best fights ever in the UK.

"I've got a full training camp this time around - there will be no room for error. Amir Khan will be knocked out."

During his time away from the ring, Khan appeared on ITV show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/42860490

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Shed some rust and let's hope he gets back on the mix after this tune up.

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Shed some rust and let's hope he gets back on the mix after this tune up.

Damn that sounds like Panama Lewis

[Spicoli]

Watched him a few times. It's *Monstor . Bit of a rough and tumble guy who can billy goat. Spence brutalized him with body work.

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Amir Khan: Boxer throws water at Phil lo Greco in heated exchange about personal life

British welterweight Amir Khan threw water over opponent Phil lo Greco at a hostile news conference on Tuesday - reacting angrily to talk about his personal life.

Khan, 31, is preparing for his first fight in almost two years and the pair meet on 21 April in Liverpool.

At a heated pre-fight promotional event, Lo Greco pointed to Khan's family issues and marital difficulties since his defeat by Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez in May 2016.

The former world welterweight champion responded by throwing water at the Canadian, prompting an on-stage melee.

Lo Greco said: "After the Canelo loss you went on a losing streak - family, wife and then you go out and tweet to the heavyweight champion of the world. What is wrong with you, mate?"

Lo Greco's reference was to a tweet Khan sent to Anthony Joshua in August 2017. It concerned his own marriage and the 31-year-old later apologised to the British heavyweight for sending it.

After security had calmed the clash on stage, promoter Eddie Hearn asked Canadian fighter Lo Greco to apologise, while Khan later said his rival's behaviour would serve as motivation to "give this guy a beating".

The Bolton boxer, who has won 31 of his 35 professional bouts, has signed a three-fight deal with Matchroom after ending a long-running feud with promoter Hearn.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/42876859

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Just watched the water throwing incident.
Blatantly "staged" as Hearn usually shits himself instead of pushing one fighter away 😁
All designed to take the attention away from the Frampton fight which also had it's press conference today 😉

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It all looked abit contrived to me but these are my observations.

1. Frampton fight donaire the same night as amir is fighting a bum. How do we secure more views? Pretend there's bad blood.....
2. Throwing water whilst being cheered on by batman and superman detracts from the seriousness they were trying to portray
3. Eddie Hearn demanding an apology from the visiting fighter after he brushed Joshua's racist comments under the carpet seems abit rich
4. Greco is nowhere near fighting weight. If he makes 147 he will be more drain d than Oscar vs PAC.

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Shed some rust and let's hope he gets back on the mix after this tune up.

At Khan's current rate of productivity, he'll be pushing 58 by the time he gets back into the 147 mix.

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Shed some rust and let's hope he gets back on the mix after this tune up.

At Khan's current rate of productivity, he'll be pushing 58 by the time he gets back into the 147 mix.

We missed the Brook fight when it was relevant, it should still be fun tho. Lets hope we don't have to wait until 2020 for it.

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Phil is a poor opponent but if we are calling him a journey man then we should call Khan one aswel. After all he has more losses on his resume than Phil has. Phils losses came to guys like Spence, Porter & Elegele and Khans has losses to guys like Peterson, Garcia, Alvarez and Prescott. There’s not much in it in terms of their losses and the level of opponent. However in the W column Khan has a lot more names of note than Phil does. Those wins of Khans were many years ago now so Greco is actually a representation of where Khan is truly at in his career these days.

Virgil Hunter reckons it’s a tough fight which tells you what he really thinks of Khan. Khan most likely thinks if he avoids punchers from now on he can get to the Brook fight unscathed but Peterson wasn’t a puncher and he beat Khan with pressure and thats how Greco fights. Algerie wasn’t puncher but he pressured Khan for 12 rounds aswel and that was back when Khan was an active fighter. It may just be that this is Khans level now rather than a huge step down which is how it was seen when the fight was announced. I don’t think we will ever see him in world class opposition again such as Spence, Porter etc. The best he will fight is Brook whos coming off back to back KO defeats and been years since he beat the only world class fighter on his resume.

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Phil is a poor opponent but if we are calling him a journey man then we should call Khan one aswel. After all he has more losses on his resume than Phil has. Phils losses came to guys like Spence, Porter & Elegele and Khans has losses to guys like Peterson, Garcia, Alvarez and Prescott. There’s not much in it in terms of their losses and the level of opponent. However in the W column Khan has a lot more names of note than Phil does. Those wins of Khans were many years ago now so Greco is actually a representation of where Khan is truly at in his career these days.

Virgil Hunter reckons it’s a tough fight which tells you what he really thinks of Khan. Khan most likely thinks if he avoids punchers from now on he can get to the Brook fight unscathed but Peterson wasn’t a puncher and he beat Khan with pressure and thats how Greco fights. Algerie wasn’t puncher but he pressured Khan for 12 rounds aswel and that was back when Khan was an active fighter. It may just be that this is Khans level now rather than a huge step down which is how it was seen when the fight was announced. I don’t think we will ever see him in world class opposition again such as Spence, Porter etc. The best he will fight is Brook whos coming off back to back KO defeats and been years since he beat the only world class fighter on his resume.

I pressed like for this post, and agree with almost everything about it. But if you're gonna name Porter as World class opposition, then Brook has to be. Yes , it was a long time ago that Brook beat him, but since then , arguably the only "W" against world class opposition on Porter's record is Broner. Now I believe that Broner was a top,top LW, a World class LWW, but at WW, he is too small and was always gonna get bullied against Porter.
Porter has been very competitive in other losing fights against top guys and all credit to him. But so has Brook.
Admittedly Brook has it all to prove at a new weight, but I'm just saying that he deserves at least to be in the same breath as Porter, surely.

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Poor Khan similarly pouring water on his career hoping it blooms again. Better get some Miracle grow. Just think if you're at all serious at least line up a top 15 opponent. Brook comes off fighting the best middle weight and the best welterweight today with back to back major surgeries..goes up in weight and fights a top five right off. Khan is just whistling past the graveyard.

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Phil is a poor opponent but if we are calling him a journey man then we should call Khan one aswel. After all he has more losses on his resume than Phil has. Phils losses came to guys like Spence, Porter & Elegele and Khans has losses to guys like Peterson, Garcia, Alvarez and Prescott. There’s not much in it in terms of their losses and the level of opponent. However in the W column Khan has a lot more names of note than Phil does. Those wins of Khans were many years ago now so Greco is actually a representation of where Khan is truly at in his career these days.

Virgil Hunter reckons it’s a tough fight which tells you what he really thinks of Khan. Khan most likely thinks if he avoids punchers from now on he can get to the Brook fight unscathed but Peterson wasn’t a puncher and he beat Khan with pressure and thats how Greco fights. Algerie wasn’t puncher but he pressured Khan for 12 rounds aswel and that was back when Khan was an active fighter. It may just be that this is Khans level now rather than a huge step down which is how it was seen when the fight was announced. I don’t think we will ever see him in world class opposition again such as Spence, Porter etc. The best he will fight is Brook whos coming off back to back KO defeats and been years since he beat the only world class fighter on his resume.

I pressed like for this post, and agree with almost everything about it. But if you're gonna name Porter as World class opposition, then Brook has to be. Yes , it was a long time ago that Brook beat him, but since then , arguably the only "W" against world class opposition on Porter's record is Broner. Now I believe that Broner was a top,top LW, a World class LWW, but at WW, he is too small and was always gonna get bullied against Porter.
Porter has been very competitive in other losing fights against top guys and all credit to him. But so has Brook.
Admittedly Brook has it all to prove at a new weight, but I'm just saying that he deserves at least to be in the same breath as Porter, surely.

Yes I see your point, Brook does hold a win over Porter so should be seen atleast on that level. When you consider that was a few years ago and since then Brooks been stopped twice and now campaigns at 154 I excluded him from the list of elite at 147. Porter made the list because he's beaten guys like Alexander, Berto, broner, malignaggi, Diaz and the fights with Thurman and Brook could've gone either way. Brooks only real top name is Porter which as I say was a close fight and he hasn't beaten anyone of note since. He is a good fighter Brook I just think his resume isn't as good as it could be.

For what what it's worth I've always given Brook the edge over Khan if they were to meet. No shame losing to Spence and Golovkin although it's not often in big fights where the home fighter gets stopped by the away fighter in back to back fights. I'd like to see what he has left vs Rabchenko. Likewise Khan needs to reaffirm he's not washed up in his next fight as wel