Welterweight believes a victory in Birmingham could set him on the path towards becoming a world champion again
Whenever Amir Khan flexes his right hand he sees multiple scars from an operation two years ago in which part of his hip bone was grafted into his broken fist. But, as he prepares to face Samuel Vargas in Birmingham on Saturday night, he says there is no permanent mental damage from the three brutal stoppages on his record – and that, at 31, he still has plenty left in the tank.
“I’ve trained harder than ever before,” says Khan after a punishing first full camp with his trainer, Joe Goossen. “I feel better now than when I was 25. And I hit a lot harder. This is a fight that will tell me what I have left, how far I can go and whether I can go to the next level to the fights like Manny Pacquiao and Kell Brook. But I know I’ve got a lot left in me. If I didn’t I’d walk away.
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/07/amir-khan-samuel-vargas-fight under the title “Amir Khan takes on Samuel Vargas ‘feeling better now than I did at 25’”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
