Amir Khan rules out becoming boxing trainer after announcing retirement

Former world champion boxer and Olympic medalist Khan retired from fighting earlier this year, but he won’t take up coaching like so many before him after hanging up the gloves

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Amir Khan announces retirement from Boxing

Amir Khan has admitted he doesn’t have the patience to pursue a career as a coach after retiring from boxing last month.

The former super-lightweight world champion has hung up the gloves after being stopped by long-time rival Kell Brook in February, but plans to remain in the sport. He has teased a possible exhibition bout with Floyd Mayweather in the Middle East, and will also look to move into promoting and managing fighters.

Khan has promoted small events in the past, including a charity YouTube boxing event which featured Adam Saleh, Yusef ‘Fousey’ Erakat and Slim Albaher at York Hall. And he has added a few names to his management stable including former England amateur champion Tal Singh.

“I don’t have the patience to be a trainer,” Khan told The DAZN Boxing Show, before confirming that he wants to be a manager and promoter. “I’m hopefully going to announce something in the next couple of weeks.

“I’m going to do a massive couple of shows in the UK. It will be 10 shows next year in the UK. End of this year and next year. Promoting the up-and-coming younger fighters, man, giving them that chance, not making the mistakes I made in the sport of boxing. Opening new doors for them.”

Khan was a huge star during his fighting peak, and as recently as this February made hundreds of thousands of pay-per-view sales for his fight with Brook. He had pushed for a rematch, but ultimately decided that fighting wasn’t for him and made the decision to hang up the gloves just months later.

Just days after announcing his retirement, Khan confirmed that he was asked to reconsider by 50-0 legend Mayweather, with whom he could never organise a fight at his peak. And he is now open to following in the footsteps of Logan Paul, Tenshin Nasukawa and Don Moore by getting in the ring for an exhibition bout with no winner.

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“We saw the event today, I think Floyd needs a real challenge,” Khan said to Aziz DXB after Mayweather’s last bout with Moore. “We should do it. 100 per cent guys, let’s make it happen. I’m calling him out. Either hit me up or hit my brother [Tam Khan] up.”

He had already told talkSPORT : “I met Floyd the other day in Dubai and there was some excitement there, he was like ‘don’t retire, let’s do something, there’s something we can do’.

“I was like ‘maybe if it didn’t happen when we were both professional fighters, maybe it can happen as an exhibition’. No one wins, it’s just a bit of fun to give the fans a bit of entertainment.

“I think now with boxing, it’s totally changed now where a lot of these fights happen, social media guys fight each other, and a new door’s been opened. People can just step in after a week of training and have a fight!”