Amir Khan (boxer)

Amir Khan PP
Khan in 2010
Born	Amir Iqbal Khan (1986-12-08) 8 December 1986 (age 37) Bolton, Greater Manchester, England
Other names	King
Statistics
Weight(s)	Lightweight Light-welterweight Welterweight Middleweight
Height	5 ft 81⁄2 in (174 cm)[1]
Reach	71 in (180 cm)[1]
Stance	Orthodox
Boxing record
Total fights	40
Wins	34
Wins by KO	21
Losses	6
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 2004 Athens Lightweight Junior Olympic Games 2003 Lightweight European Student Championships 2004 Lightweight World Junior Championships 2004 Jeju Lightweight

Amir Iqbal Khan PP (born 8 December 1986) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2022. He held unified light-welterweight world championships between 2009 and 2012, including the WBA (later Super) and IBF titles. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth lightweight title from 2007 to 2008. He also held the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2014 to 2016, and once challenged for the WBC and Ring magazine middleweight titles in 2016.^[2]

Khan won the Commonwealth lightweight title after defeating Willie Limond via RTD in 2007. A year later, he won the WBO Inter-Continental lightweight title when he defeated Martin Kristjansen via TKO. Later that year, he would lose the title to Breidis Prescott via KO, in one of the biggest upsets in British boxing history. His next three fights saw him win the vacant WBA International lightweight title, the vacant WBO Inter-Continental lightweight title, and the WBA light-welterweight title. He made his US debut against Paulie Malignaggi in May 2010, where he retained his WBA light-welterweight title. In 2011, he won the IBF light-welterweight title when he defeated Zab Judah via KO in the fifth round. In July 2012, he lost the WBA (Super) light welterweight title against Danny Garcia. Later that year, he won the vacant WBC Silver interim light-welterweight title when he defeated Carlos Molina via RTD. In 2014, he defeated Luis Collazo for the WBA International and vacant WBC Silver welterweight titles. Between 2016 and 2019, he challenged for the WBC, The Ring middleweight titles and the WBO welterweight title. In July 2019, he won the vacant WBC International welterweight title when he defeated Billy Dib via TKO in the fourth round.

Khan was known for his hand speed and accuracy.^[3] As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming at the age of 17, Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medalist.^[4] In 2007, he was named ESPN prospect of the year.^[5] He later became one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of 22.

Outside of boxing, he is a philanthropist with his own charity organisation, Amir Khan Foundation. He is also a promoter and sponsor, the owner of Khan Promotions and Pakistan's Amir Khan Academy, and a co-owner of India's Super Fight League (MMA) and Super Boxing League. As a celebrity, he has also participated in several reality television and game shows. In 2017, Khan appeared on the seventeenth series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.