{"id":9779,"date":"2009-10-14T14:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/10\/14\/salita-relishing-khan-fight\/"},"modified":"2009-10-14T14:53:19","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:53:19","slug":"salita-relishing-khan-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/14\/salita-relishing-khan-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Salita relishing Khan Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>\u2018Khan support won\u2019t faze me\u2019, says confident New Yorker<\/h3>\n<div><strong>WBA light-welterweight title challenger Dmitriy Salita insists that he isn&#8217;t fazed by coming to the UK.<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe New Yorker takes on Amir Khan on December 5 in Newcastle.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAnd he&#8217;ll be up against a hostile crowd in the north east for what will be his first world title opportunity. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cAs a world title challenger you have to travel and I am prepared to do my job,\u201d he told fightnews.com.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI am OK with fighting overseas. My fights were shown in the U.K. early on in my career and I have gotten much positive response from the fans there.&#8221;<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nUndefeated Salita, who is the WBA number one, also said that a lack of world title experience won&#8217;t hold him back.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI haven\u2019t had the bigger fights because the opportunities never materialized,\u201d he said. <br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cBut now it\u2019s finally here. I have been around top calibre fighters since being a young kid at Starrett city boxing club in Brooklyn and now I feel ready to rumble.\u201d<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKhan has been installed as an early favourite for the fight and is 1-6 for victory, with Salita the outsider at 9-2. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/article.aspx?articleId=1596\">Khan set to defend WBA title<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div\/>&#13;\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Khan support won\u2019t faze me\u2019, says confident New Yorker WBA light-welterweight title challenger Dmitriy Salita insists that he isn&#8217;t fazed by coming to the UK.&#13; The New Yorker takes on Amir Khan on December 5 in Newcastle.&#13; And he&#8217;ll be up against a hostile crowd in the north east for what will be his first [&hellip;]<\/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-9779","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\/9779","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=9779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9779\/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=9779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}