{"id":9845,"date":"2010-05-07T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/05\/07\/itv-clinch-khan-us-debut\/"},"modified":"2010-05-07T17:03:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-07T17:03:00","slug":"itv-clinch-khan-us-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/07\/itv-clinch-khan-us-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV clinch Khan US debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Fight will come live from New York<\/h3>\n<div><strong>BRITISH fans will get the chance to see boxing champion Amir Khan in his debut American fight later this month.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Khan will hope to defend his WBA title against Paulie Malignaggi at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden in the early hours of Sunday May 16th.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>And British fans can watch all the action live on ITV.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The fight, against Brooklyn-based Malignaggi, is Bolton-born Khan\u2019s second defence of his WBA world light-welterweight title and his first ever to be held in the United States. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Presenter Jim Rosenthal will be ringside at the world famous boxing venue, alongside former world champion Barry McGuigan. John Rawling and Duke McKenzie provide commentary.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Coverage will begin at 2.45am on ITV1. The fight will be repeated later in the morning of Sunday 16th May at 10.30am and on ITV4 at 7.30pm.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>ITV Controller of Sport, Niall Sloane said: \u201cWe are delighted to bring ITV viewers Amir Khan\u2019s first USA outing in defence of his title from the legendary Madison Square Garden.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fight will come live from New York BRITISH fans will get the chance to see boxing champion Amir Khan in his debut American fight later this month. &#13; Khan will hope to defend his WBA title against Paulie Malignaggi at New York\u2019s Madison Square Garden in the early hours of Sunday May 16th. &#13; And [&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-9845","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\/9845","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=9845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9845\/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=9845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}