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Khan Prefers Danny Garcia: I Schooled Him Until I Got Caught!
By Carlos Boogs
Former world champion Amir Khan is still very eager to get revenge on current WBC welterweight titleholder Danny Garcia.
They fought in a junior welterweight unification in July of 2012. Garcia came in on late notice after Lamont Peterson had failed a pre-fight drug test and was pulled from the fight.
Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) was dominating the fight until he got clipped on the chin with a hug counter-hook in the third round. He went down hard, and then went down two more times in the fourth before the contest was stopped.
Khan is currently the mandatory challenger to Garcia's title.
Garcia is scheduled to unify his world title with WBA champion Keith Thurman on March 4th from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The winner will be obligated to make a mandatory defense against Khan.
“I know I could have won that fight. I was beating him and schooling him, until I got hit with a big shot. That was me not thinking and sticking to the game plan," Khan said.
“I know how the training camp for that fight went. I thought the fight was going to be a walk in the park and I didn’t take it seriously. I thought he was the new kid on the block, I thought, ‘Who is this kid?’ It was all one-sided, but then I made that one mistake and got caught."
Khan has been out of the ring since moving up to a catch-weight of 155-pounds to challenge then WBC middleweight champion Saul "Canelo" Alvarez in May 2016. Like the fight with Garcia, Khan started very fast and appeared to be ahead when Canelo caught him with a monster shot that knocked him out cold in the sixth round.
Khan wants to take a tuneup fight in April and then intends to pursue a major fight in the summer.
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