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Amir Khan Begins Training For UFC Debut, Calls Out Conor McGregor

The worlds of boxing and mixed martial arts are never far apart. They seem to run parallel but also in quite different directions. If you ask UFC president Dana White, he’ll tell you boxing is dying, equally if Bob Arum’s recent comments are anything to go by, the UFC is ‘full of corruption and steroids.’

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The worlds of boxing and mixed martial arts are never far apart. They seem to run parallel but also in quite different directions. If you ask UFC president Dana White, he’ll tell you boxing is dying, equally if Bob Arum’s recent comments are anything to go by, the UFC is ‘full of corruption and steroids.’ Yet still the two sports are eternally linked in one way or another, mostly in a competitive nature.

When boxers like James Toney make a move in to MMA, we tend to take it with a pound of salt, but when you hear about guys like Amir Khan, it’s no longer a freak show attraction. The former world welterweight champion from Bolton, England has teased joining the UFC in the past, but in recent days has really began substantiating these reports. Either that, or he’s playing the ‘Mayweather game.’

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Via BBC.co.uk, Amir Khan says he’s ready for a big fight with UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor:

“McGregor is a massive name in MMA and I’m a big name in boxing, so, globally, I think it would be a massive fight,”

“I don’t think Mayweather would want to fight under MMA rules, I’ve been fighting all my life, so, for me, I don’t think it’d be a problem for me to learn and switch over to the sport,”

Unlike Mayweather’s rumoured fight with McGregor, Khan has some legitimate involvement with the sport of MMA. He’s co-owner of the Indian MMA promotion ‘Super Fight League,’ and is now massively teasing his switch to mixed martial arts competition. Although he lost in his most recent boxing bout with Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez, it’s well-known that the jump to face the much bigger middleweight for the title was extremely risky.

Check out the latest social media posts from ‘King Khan’ in relation to the UFC and McGregor:

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Boxing Champ Gives His Opinion On Conor McGregor

Former two-time world welterweight champion Amir Khan is among the few truly elite to come out of England in the modern boxing era. He held the unified WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles after a successful amateur career that saw the young Bolton star win an Olympic silver medal, and currently is the WBC silver welterweight

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Former two-time world welterweight champion Amir Khan is among the few truly elite to come out of England in the modern boxing era. He held the unified WBA and IBF light-welterweight titles after a successful amateur career that saw the young Bolton star win an Olympic silver medal, and currently is the WBC silver welterweight champion. Where his story crosses over in to the world of MMA starts in Asia, with SFL (Super Fight League), the MMA promotion co-owned by Khan. The organization has had some success in the East, and although yet to break through on the Western scene, is proving to be a lucrative crusade for ‘King’ Khan.

Currently scheduled to face fellow young boxing phenom Saul Alvarez next Saturday (May 7, 2016), Amir Khan has another chance at wolrd title glory, this time in the form of ‘Canelo’s’ WBC, Ring and linear middleweight titles. The clash is a highly anticipated battle of hard hitting and fast handed world beaters, but the subject of mixed martial arts is still very relevant for Khan, even during his current fight week.

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Speaking with Boxingscene.com, Amir Khan explains his future plans, which include a potential MMA debut, and also how he already trains MMA for his boxing bouts:

“I already have a stake in Super Fight League, which is a promotion in India, and we have a lot of shows in Dubai too. We are also making it over to America now too, and putting on shows over there. Bellator and the UFC are probably the two biggest shows over there, but we’re probably third.”

“You never know what’s going to happen in the future, I’d never say no to getting in to MMA. My speed would be perfect, it’s hit and move, and I can kick hard. I’ve already done MMA training, It’s good for preparing for a guy like Canelo, who likes to put the pressure on.”

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The questions then turned to the ever hot topic of UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor, to which Amir Khan had quite an interesting reply…

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