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Boxer Amir Khan may be forced by jealous fans, fighters to leave Britain.


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 light-welterweight champion Amir Khan Amir Khan may refer to:
  • Amir Khan (boxer), British boxer
  • Ustad Amir Khan, Hindustani vocalist
  • Amir Khan (Pindari), Indian ruler
  • Amir Khan (cricketer), West Indian cricketer
  • Aamir Khan, Indian actor
  • Amir Khan Lepzerin, A Kurdish ruler of Beradost near Urmia.
, who is being trained in Los Angeles for a year and could make the move permanent, if he is driven out of Britain by rival fans and fighters jealous of his success in boxing ring.

Khan still lives with parents Shah and Falak in Bolton. But he admitted: "I'd like to live in LA eventually because it's getting tough to live in Britain. People appreciate what you achieve in America whereas you don't see that in Britain."I see a lot of bitterness and jealousy. I love the British public and it would be very hard to leave them, but my career comes first. Whatever move I need to make I will do," the News of the World quoted Khan, as saying.

Khan won his world title by out pointing Ukrainian Andreas Kotelnik in July and spends two months before every fight at his Hollywood training camp.

"In America I've not come across any hate. People have come to me and said, 'We want to look after you, you're a world champion'. And I think to myself, Do these guys want something from me? Why are they so nice?

"Clothing designer Christian Audigier wanted to see me, I met him and he kitted me out with clobber (jargon) clobber - To overwrite, usually unintentionally: "I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack."

Compare mung, scribble, trash, smash the stack.
. I'm not going to complain. That's the difference in LA," Khan said.

Khan, 22, is desperate to forge a fight career in the United States and plans to box there after making his first world title defence against New Yorker Dmitriy Salita in Newcastle on December 5.

Despite growing popularity, Khan is still booed by a small minority of fans and has been on the receiving end of verbal barbs barbs

the primary, delicate filaments that are given off the shaft of a bird's contour feather. They project from the rachis and bear the barbules.
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 super-middleweight champion Carl Froch and British lightweight title-holder John Murray.

Khan was stunned by the reception he got when he returned to Roach's last month for the first time since his faultless fault·less  
adj.
Being without fault. See Synonyms at perfect.



faultless·ly adv.
 points win over Kotelnik.

He was greeted by a wall with pictures of his triumphs with the Union Jack and Pakistan flags hanging proudly, the News of the World reports. (ANI)

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