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JENNA: Alright Amir, you’re currently training and doing some sparring with Manny Pacquiao. How does it feel to be working with someone that has accomplished so much in this sport?

KHAN: Oh it’s been brilliant, because I sparred with him after defeat two years ago. I did really well with him then, but this time I’ve done even better and it just shows how much I’ve come on since I’ve been training with Manny. But we’ve been doing very little sparring because Manny is fighting a totally different style and I’m fighting an orthodox fighter. So Manny’s not really a big help in this, and the only thing that Manny’s helping is to keep me sharp and to keep me on the edge when I spar and stuff and to make sure I keep my hands up and everything. Yeah, sparring went really well. It’s just great to work with somebody like Manny because Manny is known as one of the best fighters in the world.

JENNA: Between the both of you guys when you’re in sparring there, I know competitive instincts take over. Who gets the better of it?

KHAN: It’s a 50-50 spar. You know we’re both learning. Some days[/color][/color] I have a good day, but some days Manny has a good day. I think that’s just sparring. You help and you learn with each other, but sometimes it does get out of hand where Freddie has to step in and say, “Calm down, it’s only a spar”. It’s a good thing, because then we’re learning with each other and me and Manny are good friends outside the ring, but we know when we’re in the ring it’s business. We need to train hard and work hard, but sparring is going really well. I enjoy it. At the end of the day I have learned so much off of Manny and he’s learned a little off me as well.


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Amir Khan gave his thoughts on some other popular british fighters and here is what he had to say......

CIANI: I wanted to get your opinion on some of your fellow British fighters, and some of their fights coming up, and just on some of their careers in general. I wanted to start off, in the Super Six super middleweight tournament, Carl Froch has a fight coming up against Arthur Abraham and I’m wondering what you think about Carl as a fighter and what you think about his upcoming fight against Abraham?

KHAN: Yeah, you know Carl Froch I think is not a bad fighter. He’s had his ups and downs inside of boxing. He’s said a lot of trash about me and stuff, but I’ll be professional and talk about most of the good things about him. I think he’s got a big heart when he fights. His defense, I think, needs to be tightened up a little bit because I think he does get caught a lot. If you’re going to get caught by a guy like Arthur Abraham who’s a very big puncher, I think he can put a lot of people to sleep. I think he needs to tighten up his defense. He gets caught a lot, but I think it’s going to be a tough fight for him and if he wants to win the Super Six I think he has to get through this fight and win this fight.

CIANI: Now the other big fight that I know a lot of British fans are talking about right now is the upcoming heavyweight title fight between David Haye and Audley Harrison, and I’m wondering if you could give us some quick views on that one?

KHAN: Yeah, they both were friends. David Haye, I think whenever he fights he has a similar style to me where he’s very exciting. He pushes 100% in the ring and he gives the fans a good fight to watch, whereas Audley I think is a little boring. I think maybe his age has gotten to him. He’s a lot slower, but with a lot of experience. Being an Olympic Gold Medalist he’s got a good background. In the fight I can probably see David Haye probably knocking him out in the mid rounds, breaking him down slowly with that jab and then catching him over the top when he throws his long shots.

CIANI: Now if David Haye does indeed come out victorious in this fight, do you think we’ll see him in there against a Klitschko next year?

KHAN: Yeah, you know there’s another British fighter who’s fighting a Klitschko. I think the fight’s been done which is Derek Chisora so I think, yeah, the winner of that fight David should fight because I was speaking to him just before I left England and he was talking about when he wants to retire. He thinks in another twelve months he wants to retire, so in the next twelve months I think a fight will happen with the Klitschko brothers.

CIANI: Which British fighter out there has had the most positive impact on your career either as a fighter or from the perspective of a fan that helped you improve as a fighter?

KHAN: There’s a few really. There’s Ricky Hatton who’s been a big help. We get along quite well. We’re good friends and when I fought as a professional he was giving me some good advice. Also Naseem Hamed is a good friend of mine as well. We have a good chat now and then, and we got talking a lot when I was fighting Barrera. The last few fights he’s been ringside watching me fight. So I’ve got a good relationship with all of the fighters. At the end of the day all of the fighters in England, it could be Joe Calzaghe, it could be Naseem Hamed or Ricky Hatton. They all respect me and I respect them as well and we know each other quite well. We give each other advice. The two main guys are probably Hatton and Naseem Hamed, maybe because we’re quite local. We live not far from each other so we see each other more often and that’s when we probably have a chat.

CIANI: With regards to Ricky Hatton, do you think he’ll ever get back in the ring and do you think he will ever want to come back into boxing?
KHAN: Well you know he had stuff about taking the illegal substances and stuff, and the commission in England have taken the boxing license off him. So I can’t really see him coming back and getting in the ring, but really I don’t think he should come back. Maybe as a friend and giving him some advice, I don’t think he should come back because, especially if he comes back at the 140 pound division, it’s a tough division because of big fighting names there and also he’s been out so long now. After getting hurt in his last fight, I think he should call it a day. He’s made a lot of money in the sport and also he’s known as a boxing legend in Britain. So I think he doesn’t have to come back. I’m sure he’s earned a lot of money in the sport so he can just relax now.

CIANI: Now the other guy you mentioned was Hamed. I’m wondering if you could just give me some views on what you thought of his boxing career and what you thought it was that made him such a special fighter during his peak years?

KHAN: If you look back and you watch his fights, people think Floyd Mayweather was flamboyant and he was cocky and everything, but when Naz was fighting I think Naz was like ten times worse. He was worse than Floyd. He had the style, he had the mouth to back it up and the power as well. I remember watching the Kevin Kelly fight. I think I thought they were going to fight before the fight. Naz was a great fighter. He was a great puncher. He made a lot of money in the game. I think still people respect him and what he did in the game. He brought a lot of show business in the game, especially in the lower weight divisions where before there used to be big money in the higher divisions, and with Naz, there lot of money pumped into the lighter divisions after seeing him fight.




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