{"id":90,"date":"2018-01-11T07:53:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/?p=90"},"modified":"2018-01-11T07:53:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T07:53:32","slug":"amir-khan-focused-becoming-welterweight-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan focused on becoming welterweight world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amir Khan is confident he can overcome some of the best pound-for-pound fighters and become a welterweight world champion this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" src=\"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amir-khan-pakistan-taliban-welterweight_3243995-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amir-khan-pakistan-taliban-welterweight_3243995-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/doontimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/amir-khan-pakistan-taliban-welterweight_3243995.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Khan, a former light-welterweight world champion, will return to the ring for the first time in almost two years on April 21, live on<em>\u00a0Sky Sports<\/em>\u00a0from Liverpool&#8217;s Echo Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/12183\/11202104\/amir-khan-announces-british-homecoming-live-on-sky-sports-after-signing-for-matchroom-boxing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who has signed a three-fight deal with Matchroom Boxing,<\/a>is targeting an opponent ranked in the top 10 for his next contest but says the dream is to become a world champion at 147lbs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__widge-container\">\n<div class=\"ocw QXJ0aWNsZSBQcm9tbw==\" data-oc-no=\"1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I know what mistakes I have made and I don&#8217;t want to make them again,&#8221; Khan told Sky Sports News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amir Khan is confident he can overcome some of the best pound-for-pound fighters and become a welterweight world champion this year. Khan, a former light-welterweight world champion, will return to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92,"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/92"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doontimes.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}