Amir eyes big LOS ANGELES, Dec 14: Britain’s Amir Khan, trying to fight his way back into the world title picture after back-to-back losses, faces a must-win match-up on Saturday against unbeaten American Carlos Molina.
Amir was stopped in the fourth round last July by America’s Danny Garcia in a showdown for two world titles after a controversial loss to US fighter Lamont Peterson last December in Washington, Peterson’s hometown.
Now Amir, 26-3 with 18 knockouts but winless since stopping Zab Judah in July of last year, will fight another US hometown hero in Molina, 17-0 with one draw and seven knockouts.
“It’s always tough but maybe that’s the reason we’ve been working even harder, because we know we have to win even more convincingly when you come to someone’s backyard and that’s what we’re going to do,” Amir said.
Amir, 26, vowed he will show his fans some new moves. “You will see a new Amir Khan come into this fight,” he asserted. “The training I’ve been doing with Virgil Hunter has been great – work on new techniques and new skills and everything and be a totally different fighter.”
Molina, 27, figures the new Amir will be no more of a pushover than the old one he has studied in films.
“We’re going to come out of nowhere and shock the world,” Molina vowed.—AFP
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