Amir Khan: I always like to train like a challenger and train very, very hard

Former IBF and WBA light welterweight titlist Amir Khan was present in a conference call along with his upcoming opponent Danny Garcia, the WBC light welterweight titlist. The dup spoke about their upcoming fight, which is scheduled to be held on July 14 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

When asked about his training sessions, Bolton proud Khan revealed, “Well, you never go into a fight and you think it’s going to be easy. Every fight is a tough fight and I always like to train like a challenger and train very, very hard. When the new name came up and we spoke to Golden Boy Promotions and they said, “What do you think of Danny Garcia as a new opponent?”

He added, “I jumped to the occasion and the reason we got Danny and we got this fight so quickly after the Pederson fight got called off because Ramadan is coming up and I want to take off boxing around that time. It’s a week before Ramadan this fight’s going to happen so it works out perfect.”

Khan further revealed, “The fight came up and when Golden Boy asked me I said, “Look, I’d love to take that fight.” I think it is a similar fight because Danny is strong. Peterson is strong.”

The British-Pakistani fighter then compared himself with Garcia saying, “We both have kind of similar speed and similar movements and stuff and also with both being orthodox, I think it helps. The game plan had to kind of change a little bit from the Peterson fight, but the training we’d been doing and the conditioning work was just kind of perfect.”

Amir Khan will be facing Danny Garcia on July 14 for the WBC light welterweight title and the vacant WBA light welterweight title. If Khan wins the showdown, he will once again be unifying two titles of different organisations like he did earlier in his career.

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