Khan v Barrera may become a title fight

[Howlin Mad Missy]

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.”

Where did you copy that artcile from ?

The amount of errors is amazing . The author should be sacked

y'know I never noticed.

that should suit Barrera fine and kill Khan

Barrera used to be the WBO's darling till he went on his own and got the WBC belt after which time the WBO no longer wanted to play with him.

Bunch of kids.

And in the grand scheme of perfect worlds whereby people earned their shot at titles, neither has done that in this division. Now if I was running things

[Kel]

I'm gonna let my feelings be known. I want Barrera to rip his fucking heart out, and feed it to him.

[Fenster]

Khan doesn't seem to have hardly any support from the hardcores. Considering the amount going, is it possible Barrera has the crowd support on the night?

[Howlin Mad Missy]

reps to kel and fenster.

khan will have the no. 42 brigade on his side, Barrera will have everyone else told 'em it'll be like a home coming.

[rjj tszyu]

I'm gonna let my feelings be known. I want Barrera to rip his fucking heart out, and feed it to him.

ha ha me too! What would that do for Khan's future though? I don't think he would have one personally.

[W1NKY]

first thing that came to my mind was what a joke second thing is actually i hope it is because lets just say khan does win then hes got the wbo which means......... no more ducking fighters for khan and frank warren. witch also meens khan getting knocked the F out in hes first defense of the title so ime gonna look on the bright side of this one haha

[Pugilistic]

Khan gets knocked the fuck out, Beats up some bum and then gets a title shot What a joke.

Where is prescott's title shot then

[Kel]

Khan gets knocked the fuck out, Beats up some bum and then gets a title shot What a joke.

Where is prescott's title shot then

Prescott will earn it the hard way, like a real fighter.

[kingfrnk]

fukk khan i hope Barrera kos his ass.

[BoomBoom]

I kinda feel bad for Funeka. He fights the real champ who outweighed him, loses a close battle that he did everything he could to win, and then the titles are vacant only for two other fighters to have a crack at them. And I doubt Khan will be put anywhere near a ring with Funeka, assuming Khan wins.

[GAME]

'at present' I said - let him whoop Khan then take it from there. I will be willing him to get there believe me. Yes he's beaten the best in the past and is a living legend and yes it helps you queue jump.

I said the same about Bruno when he got the McCall shot - I loved Bruno (not in that sense)

The winner of this fight doesn't deserve to call themselves the world champion do they.

Well I think if Barrera wins he does because Marquez is the number 1 and Ive already seen Barrera beat him

Should Khan fluke a win I think he makes easy defences at home against unknowns and easy mandatorys

[littlebif]

If Khan wins, Warren will have him make his first defence against a fighter that Warren promotes like Alex Arthur or Gavin Rees so even if Khan losses Warren still has a world champion in his camp.

[:::PSL:::]

Khan is another Rey Bautista. An overhyped bum.

[killersheep]

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!

This is not true, if Funeka would have won, he would have snatched all those titles, they announced it at the beginning of the fight, the titles were only on the line for the challenger (Funeka)