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Amir Khan is a former British professional boxer.
As an amateur Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division at the 2004 Olympics, becoming, at the age of 17, Britian’s youngest boxing Olympic medallist at the time. After he turned professional, Khan would become one of the youngest ever British world champions, winning the WBA title at the age of 22.
A former unified light-welterweight world champion, Khan held the WBA (later Super) title from 2009 to 2012, and the lBF title in 2011. At a regional level, he previously 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 a middleweight world title in 2016.
Khan shared the ring throughout his career with some of the greatest fighters of his generation, from Marcos Maidana and Marco Barrera to Canelo Alvarez and Paulie Malignaggi.
Khan announced his retirement from boxing in May 2022. Outside of boxing, he is a philanthropist with his own charity organisation, The Amir Khan Foundation and is the star of the reality show ‘Meet the Khans: Big in Bolton’ alongside his wife Faryal.
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