Former unified light-welterweight champion Amir Khan has revealed the one fight result that he would change when reflecting on his rollercoaster professional career.
The Olympic Gold medallist drew the curtain on his career back in May of 2022, just a few months after he was stopped in the sixth round of his long-awaited showdown with domestic rival Kell Brook in Manchester.
Whilst he suffered a handful of defeats during his tenure, Khan did produce a number of impressive wins along the way over the likes of Marco Antonio Barrera, Zab Judah and Marcos Maidana.
Speaking on Froch On Fighting recently, Khan was asked to name the one fight that he would change the result of in a surprising admission.
“It would be the Danny Garcia fight. Yeah, that hurts me, that fight, but it had everything. It had every title on the line. It had the WBC, the WBA (Super), and it had the Ring Magazine title on there as well. I just let that go. I was going in there thinking I’d knock him out.
“[His dad] got right under my nerves [at the press conference] and then my whole game plan went out of the window. I wanted to go in there and just f***ing knock this guy out and make his dad feel it.
“Everything was going fine but it wasn’t the way that I fight. I should have hit and moved. That was the fight that I really wish I could change.”
Garcia stopped Khan in the fourth round of their clash at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas back in July of 2012 to unify the WBC, WBA and IBF world titles at 140lbs.
Khan would go on to share the ring with a number of generational greats in the years that followed this disappointing defeat, including a shock clash with Canelo Alvarez back in May of 2016.
