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World Boxing Champ Amir Khan Considering Making The Jump To MMA

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Amir Khan is one of the top boxers on earth, with a 31-3 record he’s gearing up to put himself to the test against Manny Pacquiao. He’d love to fight Floyd Mayweather, but it doesn’t seem that’s in the cards just yet since Floyd is going to be fighting Andre Berto. Fighting Floyd is like winning the lottery; you’ll get millions of dollars and you won’t get knocked out.

The former training partners are likely to fight in the UAE.

The former training partners are likely to fight in the UAE.

Amir Khan would rather make his own luck, as he revealed in an interview on The MMA Hour:

“I just love all the grappling and everything that happens in cage fighting and the technique and everything. In a boxing fight, there’s not much grappling allowed. In MMA fights, there’s a lot of floor work, a lot of grappling. At the same time, I’m a good puncher myself; I’m a good boxer. So at least I’ve got an advantage. If I work a little bit on my grappling, you never know. I might go in the cage next.”

At this point, somebody must have shown Khan how much MMA fighters get paid compared to top-tier boxers, or shown him a tape of James Toney in the UFC, because he quickly backpedaled…

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