![]() 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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