Amir Khan is one of the most popular and richest Boxer who was born on December 8, 1986 in Manchester, England, United Kingdom. World champion boxer who won WBA, WBA (Super) and IBF Light Welterweight titles. He became the youngest British boxer to win an Olympic medal when he took silver in the 2004 Olympics at just 17 years old.
He defeated Macos Maidana in December 2010 to retain his WBA Light Welterweight title.
Amir Iqbal Khan (born 8 December 1986) is a British professional boxer, promoter and philanthropist. He is a former unified light-welterweight world champion, having held the WBA (later Super) title from 2009 to 2012, and the IBF title in 2011. At regional level, he held the Commonwealth lightweight title from 2007 to 2008. He also held the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2014 to 2016, and once challenged for the WBC and Ring magazine middleweight titles in 2016. As of August 2019, Khan is ranked as the world’s ninth best active welterweight by BoxRec.
Khan began to box competitively at the age of 11, with early honours including three English school titles, three junior ABA titles, and gold at the 2003 Junior Olympics. In early 2004 he won a gold medal at the European Student Championships in Lithuania, and in South Korea several months later he won a world junior lightweight title after fighting five times in seven days. One of his notable early amateur fights was against Victor Ortíz, whom he defeated in a second round stoppage. Overall, he compiled an amateur record of 101–9.
He was raised with a brother named Haroon and two sisters. He had his first child, a daughter named Lamaisah, on May 23, 2014 with Faryal Makhdoom, whom he married in 2013. He and Faryal welcomed a second daughter named Alayna in April 2018.
