{"id":9997,"date":"2011-11-11T13:39:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/boxer-amir-khan-back-on-sky-sports\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T17:05:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T17:05:08","slug":"boxer-amir-khan-back-on-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/11\/boxer-amir-khan-back-on-sky-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Amir Khan back on Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Champ signs three-fight deal with broadcaster<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"258\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/AmirKhansky_460x225.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>AMIR Khan is back on Sky Sports and promising his legion of British fans a title defence to remember.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Khan\u2019s forthcoming defence of his WBA and IBF Super Lightweight world titles against American Lamont Peterson will be screened on Sky next month. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Live coverage of the December 10 bout from the Walter E. Washington Convention Center will be the first of three fights featuring Khan to be shown on Sky Sports.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>And Khan is promising his British fans they won\u2019t be disappointed.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI\u2019m delighted to be on Sky Sports,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThey are dedicated to broadcasting the biggest fights, so I\u2019m excited about working together again.\u00a0 Fighting in America can make it difficult for my British fans to see me live in action, but being on Sky Sports means they can cheer me on and enjoy the fight as it happens from home.\u00a0 <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI\u2019m training harder than ever for this fight and I guarantee the fans won\u2019t want to miss it!\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Barney Francis Managing Director of Sky Sports said the broadcaster was pleased to see the Brit champ back on its screens. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cThis is great news for Sky subscribers,\u201d he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to welcome Amir back, and delighted to be showing his next three fights on Sky Sports.\u00a0 Khan vs. Peterson follows a great autumn of boxing on Sky Sports, and this fight will be part of a great month of boxing on Sky Sports that includes four world title fights and some of the biggest names in British and world boxing.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champ signs three-fight deal with broadcaster &#13; &#13; &#13; AMIR Khan is back on Sky Sports and promising his legion of British fans a title defence to remember. &#13; Khan\u2019s forthcoming defence of his WBA and IBF Super Lightweight world titles against American Lamont Peterson will be screened on Sky next month. &#13; Live coverage [&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-9997","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\/9997","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=9997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9997\/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=9997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}