![]() ![]() 2005 – Beat Craig Watson on points in the ABA Championships.2004 – Won a silver medal at the Olympics, beating Marios Kaperonis, Dimitar Shtilianov, Jong Sub Baik and Serik Yeleuov.2004 – Won an amateur match against Victor Ortíz, who was stopped in the second round.2004 – Won the Strandja Cup to qualify for the Olympics in Athens.2004 – Won a gold medal at the European Student Championships and the World Junior Championships.2003 – Won a gold medal at the AAU Junior Olympic Games.His 2005 rematch with Kindelan drew an audience of 6.3 million viewers on ITV. His Olympic fights drew an audience of nearly 8 million viewers on BBC, including 8 million viewers watching his final Olympic match with Kindelan. In 2005, he avenged the two losses by beating the 34-year-old Kindelan in his last amateur fight. He lost in the final to Mario Kindelán, the Cuban who had also beaten him several months earlier in the pre-Olympic match-ups in Greece. He was Britain's youngest Olympic boxer since Colin Jones in 1976. He was Britain's sole representative in boxing at the Athens Games, winning a silver medal at the age of 17 in the lightweight boxing category. Khan qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by finishing in first place at the 1st AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Overall, he compiled an amateur record of 101–9. One of his notable early amateur fights was against Victor Ortíz, whom he defeated in a second round stoppage. In early 2004 he won a gold medal at the European Student Championships in Lithuania, and in South Korea several months later he won a world junior lightweight title after fighting five times in seven days. Khan began to box competitively at the age of 11, with early honours including three English school titles, three junior ABA titles, and gold at the 2003 Junior Olympics. He is the first cousin of English cricketer Sajid Mahmood, related through a paternal grandfather, Lal Khan Janjua, who moved to England after being discharged from the Pakistan Army. Khan has two sisters and one brother, Haroon "Harry" Khan, also a professional boxer. Khan is a Muslim, and a member of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order, along with being an active supporter of the Muslim Writers Awards. He was educated at Smithills School in Bolton, and Bolton Community College. Khan was born and raised in Bolton, Greater Manchester, to a Pakistani Punjabi Rajput family with roots in Matore village of Kahuta Tehsil, located in Rawalpindi District of Punjab, Pakistan. In 2017, Khan appeared on the seventeenth series of I'm a Celebrity. As a celebrity, he has also participated in several reality television and game shows. 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. Outside of boxing, he is a philanthropist with his own charity organisation, Amir Khan Foundation. He later became one of the youngest ever British professional world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of 22. In 2007, he was named ESPN prospect of the year. Īs an amateur boxer, Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming at the age of 17, Britain's youngest boxing Olympic medalist. 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. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth lightweight title from 2007 to 2008. He held unified light-welterweight world championships between 20, including the WBA (later Super) and IBF titles. Amir Iqbal Khan PP (born 8 December 1986) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2022.
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