Khan v Salita

British boxer Amir Khan is set to make the first defence of his WBA light-welterweight title against Dmitriy Salita, BBC Sport understands.
Khan's promoter Frank Warren is in talks with Salita's camp and the fight is expected to happen on 5 December.

A venue for the clash is yet to be decided as Khan prepares to defend the title he won in July when he beat Andreas Kotelnik on points.
Ukrainian-born Salita is unbeaten in 31 fights and is the mandatory challenger.

The 27-year-old is nicknamed 'The Star of David' due to his Jewish roots and has 16 knockouts to his name. He made his professional debut in 2001 and last fought in May, defeating American Raul Munoz on points.
"I know quite a lot about Khan. He was a good amateur and a very good technician for his age, so I expect a good fight," Salita told the Jewish Chronicle newspaper.

"He has good hand speed and movement, but there are holes in his defence and offence and I'm very confident of winning.
"I have never lost, while he was beaten quite recently, but let the best man win."

Khan, 22, defeated Ukrainian Kotelnik in Manchester with a fine performance and has lost only once in 22 professional fights.
That defeat came in September 2008 when he was knocked out inside the first minute of his WBO intercontinental lightweight title defence by Colombia's Breidis Prescott.

Bolton boxer Khan recently spoke about the possibility of fighting fellow Brit Ricky Hatton, while it was also rumoured that he was offered the chance to meet stablemate, and the recognised pound-for-pound best boxer in the world, Manny Pacquiao.

But it would appear that Khan has turned down those opportunities to make a mandatory defence against Salita.

 

49.6 % wins by K.O.
Ah well can't expect him to go in with a big hitter any time soon i suppose.

 

Palastine should be settled by who ever winning this fight.

 

I don't think you should make a silly comment over something you know nothing about.

 

I read the fight is going to be in Newcaslte.

Looks like Burns vs Mitchell will be chief support. Would like to see Sky get the Pavlik vs Williams card as part of a ppv to.

 

Just saw this on BBC site, there was a lot of talk of this match-up after the Kotelnik fight and whether you want to recognise it or not, the Muslim vs Jew angle will be an elephant in the corner with this fight.

Everyone is aware of it, no one will want to bring it up.

Having seen this guy fight on the undercard of Calzaghe vs Jones, my personal opinion of Salita is that he's an overprotected average boxer. I expect Khan to make easy work of him.

 

Expect Khan to coast his way to an uneventfull UD :tired

 

Salita looked worse than he is on that card.

 

Worse than he is? What is he? Hes pretty average.

Khan shouldn't have a problem.

 

I heard he West Bank was an option, safer than Newcastle too.


Anyway I like the fight and can not wait til Khan gives the yank a jolly good spanking.

 

good fight all round, no arguments

 

rob were did you read that ?or are you just speculating?

 

And salita deserves his shot.

Should be a UD for amir

 

Where did you hear this? Might pop along for that if it is in Newcastle.