![]() Khan finds this great for working on his angle shots. I also work on sidestepping out of the target area once I've thrown a punch." "He makes sure I throw the right punch at the right time. ![]() "Freddie moves his body and does footwork like my opponent will in a fight," Khan says. With his coach, Freddie Roach, Khan can spend up to an hour, or 15 rounds, with pads. Some fighters who drink will put a lot of extra weight on." That's one of the reasons I find it easy to stay at a low weight. "Because I'm a Muslim I never drink alcohol. Sometimes it's as much as $100,000 a pound they may even reschedule the fight.īut I've never been over the weight. If you weigh too much at the weigh-in, they can strip you of your title, or you can get fined for each pound that you're over. If I'm one or two pounds over close to a fight, it's easy to lose that weight. "At the start of my training camp it's OK to eat red meat, but just before the fight I cut down on this. There's a halal butcher a few miles down the road. I normally start with soup, then potatoes with salmon, steak or chicken breast. I often have someone who comes to cook for me. "Although I have energy and protein drinks during the afternoon, my next meal isn't until 6pm. It's normally scrambled or poached eggs on toast, tomatoes, beans. Then, after my early-morning running session I have oatmeal with blueberries, raspberries or strawberries. When I first wake up I take a protein shake. "During training camp I have to consume between 6,000 and 6,500 calories every day. I like to change where I run so I don't get bored." Or else I'll go down to Santa Monica and run up and down the steps there. "On other mornings, I'll run on the steep road leading up to the Griffith Observatory and on the dirt trails beyond it. ![]() This simulates the end stages of a fight when your legs get heavy and tired - rounds ten, eleven and 12. "After that I do shadow boxing in the sand beside the track. I'll spend 45 minutes running altogether. I either sprint 70 metres flat out, or I do two laps of interval sprints with ten-second fast sprints, followed by 20-second jogs. ![]() ![]() Just like in a fight, when you first take it easy with jabs, then throw in a fast combination of shots. This is all about sprints and explosive stuff. **"Quite often I run on the track at the University of California, Los Angeles. **"I get up early to do my most intense fitness training, either running or swimming." Yet for all of the bad blood between the two 35-year-old former champions, both of whom are decidedly past their best days, the two fighters concluded their junior middleweight bout by exchanging hugs and pleasantries inside the ring.In the weeks leading up to a fight, Khan moves from his home town of Bolton to Los Angeles to work with Freddie Roach, one of the world's best boxing trainers, at the Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood. Finally, referee Victor Loughlin brought a merciful end to the proceedings at 51 seconds of Round 6 as Khan looked like he was one punch away being finished. superstars.Īfter years of trash talk and accusations that Khan was ducking him, Brook (40-3, 28 KOs) looked as fresh as he had in years by stopping his domestic rival via sixth-round TKO in a one-sided performance inside a raucous Manchester Arena crowd in England.Īlthough the always brave Khan (34-6, 21 KOs) was never knocked down, he was hurt badly throughout and unable to fully regain his legs following a wild opening round. Eighteen years after the personal rivalry first began, Kell Brook finally got the last laugh against Amir Khan in their long-awaited - yet overly marinated - showdown between U.K. ![]()
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