Amir Khan (British boxer)
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Khan in 2009
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| Real name | Amir Iqbal Khan | ||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | King | ||||||||||||
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| Height | 5 ft 8 1⁄2 in (174 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Reach | 71 in (180 cm) | ||||||||||||
| Nationality | British | ||||||||||||
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8 December 1986 Bolton, Greater Manchester, England |
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| Stance | Orthodox | ||||||||||||
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| Total fights | 35 | ||||||||||||
| Wins | 31 | ||||||||||||
| Wins by KO | 19 | ||||||||||||
| Losses | 4 | ||||||||||||
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Amir Iqbal Khan (born 8 December 1986) is a British professional boxer. He is a former unified light-welterweight world champion, having held the WBA (later Super) title from 2009 to 2012, and the IBF title in 2011. Additionally he held the Commonwealth lightweight title from 2007 to 2008, the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2014 to 2016, and has challenged once for a middleweight world title in 2016.
As an amateur, Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the age of 17. He is also one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of 22. In July 2011 the International Business Times ranked Khan as the world's 8th best boxer, pound for pound, while BoxRec ranked him 13th best, pound for pound, in April 2016. As of October 2016, The Ring magazine ranks him as the world's third best welterweight. Outside of boxing, he has worked as a philanthropist and mixed martial arts promoter.
Khan was born and raised in Bolton, Greater Manchester, to a Punjabi Rajput family with roots in Matore village of Kahuta Tehsil, located in Rawalpindi district of the Punjab, Pakistan. He was educated at Smithills School in Bolton, and Bolton Community College. Khan is Muslim, and a member of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, along with being an active supporter of the Muslim Writers Awards.
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