{"id":9601,"date":"2008-06-18T15:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/06\/18\/khan-gears-up-for-sell-out-birmingham-bout\/"},"modified":"2008-06-18T15:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T15:49:43","slug":"khan-gears-up-for-sell-out-birmingham-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/18\/khan-gears-up-for-sell-out-birmingham-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Khan gears up for sell-out Birmingham bout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gomez is \u2018scared\u2019, says Khan<\/h3>\n
\"\"BOXER Amir Khan has begun a war of words with forthcoming opponent Michael Gomez by claiming the Irish-born boxer is \u201cscared\u201d.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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The two fighters meet in Birmingham this weekend in front of a sell-out 10,000 capacity at the National Indoor Arena. <\/div>\n

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Khan will look to defend his Commonwealth lightweight title, while Gomez is aiming to end the Bolton\u2019s boxers unbeaten run. <\/div>\n

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Despite the two boxers scheduled to meet for a press conference, Gomez did not show, prompting Khan to label his opponent an \u201cidiot\u201d.<\/div>\n

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“He’s scared, I was looking forward to seeing him and he’s not turned up but his games don’t bother me,” said Khan. <\/div>\n

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“You know what an idiot Michael Gomez can be, I’ll let my fists do the talking on Saturday night.” <\/div>\n

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Khan will have temporary trainer Dean Powell by his side in Birmingham following his split from long-term trainer Oliver Harrison last month.<\/div>\n

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Powell said Khan was fully aware of what Gomez would bring to the fight.<\/div>\n

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“Gomez is going to bring a special kind of intensity to the fight. We all know how Michael Gomez likes to fight and we are fully prepared for what he’s going to bring\u201d, he said.<\/div>\n

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“Amir certainly doesn’t need to get involved in World War Three with Gomez. But Gomez is going to have a big shock if he thinks he can shove Amir around.” <\/div>\n

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Gomez is \u2018scared\u2019, says Khan BOXER Amir Khan has begun a war of words with forthcoming opponent Michael Gomez by claiming the Irish-born boxer is \u201cscared\u201d. The two fighters meet in Birmingham this weekend in front of a sell-out 10,000 capacity at the National Indoor Arena. Khan will look to defend his Commonwealth […]<\/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-9601","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\/9601","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=9601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9601\/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=9601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}