{"id":297266,"date":"2023-11-14T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=297266"},"modified":"2023-11-14T20:23:58","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T20:23:58","slug":"amir-khan-reveals-i-did-not-want-to-be-there-during-kell-brook-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/boxing\/amir-khan-reveals-i-did-not-want-to-be-there-during-kell-brook-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan reveals &apos;I did NOT want to be there&apos; during Kell Brook fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Amir Khan reveals he &#8216;did NOT want to be there&#8217; when he fought Kell Brook and claims a fight against &#8216;good friend&#8217; Manny Pacquiao would be &#8216;brilliant&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The former world champion claims he now feels he is &#8216;the people&#8217;s fighter&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Khan also said he and Tyson Fury are &#8216;very different people&#8217; in and out of the ring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Are we just days away from a Fury v Usky announcement? Listen on The Hook\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former boxing world champion Amir Khan has revealed he &#8216;did not want to be there&#8217; during his fight against Kell Brook.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old fighter was stopped by Brook in February last year and subsequently announced his retirement after a 27-year career.<\/p>\n<p>However, speaking in an exclusive interview with Charlotte Daly on The Hook, Bolton-born Khan hinted at a potential fight against former Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If I fight Manny Pacquiao I think it would be a brilliant fight. He&#8217;s someone I&#8217;ve always looked up to and trained with him so we know each other quite well,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Time-wise it&#8217;s also good for us both. That&#8217;s one fight that would lift me up and I&#8217;d want to perform because he&#8217;s a legend.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/16\/77789995-12748181-image-a-1_1699979845195.jpg\" height=\"403\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Amir Khan pictured during his stoppage defeat to Kell brook in February last year<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/16\/77789997-12748181-image-a-2_1699979847186.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a036-year-old said he would love to fight\u00a0Manny Pacquiao because it would &#8216;lift me up&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In the last fight with Brook it wasn&#8217;t the same. I knew I had made enough money, I could chill out &#8211; I didn&#8217;t even want to be there.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Khan also added: &#8216;People want to see me fight. People are entertained by watching me so I have to keep performing for them. I&#8217;ve then become a people&#8217;s fighter.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Asked by Daly what it is like to fight in a big venue, he said: &#8216;It&#8217;s amazing honestly when you&#8217;re walking out and your name is being shouted out. You do get goosebumps. You are nervous as hell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sometimes I think I should have picked another sport. Why am I doing this again? But you know you&#8217;re ready mentally&#8230; it&#8217;s just time to go to war and you switch on and your nerves are gone and you&#8217;re waiting for that bell to go.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Describing what his fighting camp is like compared to the Gypsy King, Khan added:\u00a0&#8216;Tyson and me are very different characters. Tyson is a very lively person, he&#8217;s fun and jumps about.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;[Before a fight] with me it was more just praying and having the room nice and calm and settled because I know I&#8217;m going to war so my mind needs to be at peace and I need to think about the game plan. I was the total opposite.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/11\/14\/16\/77790029-12748181-image-a-3_1699979849067.jpg\" height=\"476\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Bolton-born boxer also shed light on his &#8216;quiet&#8217; dressing room and post-fight celebrations<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I can see Tyson having a loud room because that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s been around. I&#8217;ve always been around quiet rooms.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Even after a fight, Khan insisted he doesn&#8217;t like to party and it was always very quiet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I would normally go out to dinner with the family or have a little after party in a hotel room, but I would only be there for five or ten minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You&#8217;ve just been in an arena with loads of noise and people shouting your name so you just want a bit of peace and quiet to bring you down to earth.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u00a0announced back in August he and wife Faryal Makhdoom had split, before accusing her of cheating on him with heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>Following a lengthy rift that involved Makhdoom and his family, Khan has buried the hatchet with relations &#8211; watching Floyd Mayweather beat up Conor McGregor with his father Shah &#8211; as well as Joshua.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12748181\/Amir-Khan-reveals-did-NOT-want-fought-Kell-Brook-claims-fight-against-good-friend-Manny-Pacquiao-brilliant.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amir Khan reveals he &#8216;did NOT want to be there&#8217; 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