{"id":10087,"date":"2014-02-26T10:47:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T10:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/02\/26\/onwards-and-upwards\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:09:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:09:17","slug":"onwards-and-upwards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2014\/02\/26\/onwards-and-upwards\/","title":{"rendered":"ONWARDS AND UPWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Amir Khan Releases Statement After Mayweather Chooses Marcos Maidana<\/h3>\n

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Boxer Amir Khan has released an official statement from Amir Khan following the official announcement confirming that Marcos Maidana will fight Floyd Mayweather on Saturday 3rd May.\u00a0 In it he expressesd his disappointment.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFollowing the announcement by Floyd Mayweather that he will be facing Marcos Maidana on May 3rd I would like to clarify my situation for my fans and members of the media.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cDespite having signed my part of the agreement to fight Floyd in early December, I\u2019ve been preparing myself for some time that the match up with him wasn\u2019t going to happen, as I announced on Twitter a few days ago. Therefore, this announcement did not come as a surprise.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cI am, however, very disappointed with Floyd and his team for not providing any explanation as to why he delayed the announcement for so long and ultimately avoided the fight with me.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cClarification, if he was not fighting me, would have allowed me to look over my options and pursue another path, rather than the ultimate delay to my career this has caused.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cIt has been a very frustrating period as I\u2019d been due to fight in December against Devon Alexander, however, I was strongly advised to not take this fight as I would be facing Floyd this May \u2013 and therefore signed my side of the contract on this belief.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cFloyd was keen to engage with the fans and so decided to let them choose who he should fight in his next bout. I clearly won his official poll, by a significant margin, but for unknown reasons he decided to ignore the fans vote and failed to keep his word. Disappointing many fight fans who took the time to vote.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cI genuinely wish Marcos and Floyd all the best for their fight \u2013 two great fighters. As a team we have now moved on and are looking at different options.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve been training very hard since my last fight. I\u2019m a fighter who wants to face the very best out there and have never ducked any opponent.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m focused and ready for my next outing – we currently have a few options on the table at the moment and my team are working alongside Golden Boy Promotions to announce my next fight within the next 10 days.\u00a0<\/div>\n

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\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get back in the ring and am determined to put on a great show for my loyal fans who have waited a long time to see me back in action \u2013 and I\u2019m very excited about what\u2019s yet to come this year. Thank you for all your continued support.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Amir Khan Releases Statement After Mayweather Chooses Marcos Maidana Boxer Amir Khan has released an official statement from Amir Khan following the official announcement confirming that Marcos Maidana will fight Floyd Mayweather on Saturday 3rd May.\u00a0 In it he expressesd his disappointment. \u201cFollowing the announcement by Floyd Mayweather that he will be facing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}