{"id":17200,"date":"2014-05-03T18:05:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T18:05:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-05-03T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T18:05:40","slug":"Amir-Khan-defeats-Luis-Collazo-eyes-Floyd-Mayweather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=17200","title":{"rendered":"Amir Khan defeats Luis Collazo, eyes Floyd Mayweather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Amir Khan knocked Luis Collazo down three times en route to an impressive unanimous decision victory over the Brooklyn fighter in a 12-round non-title bout on the undercard of the Mayweather-Maidana &#8220;The Moment.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Khan, who earned $3 million for the victory, had dropped Collazo in the fourth round,<\/strong> then two more times in a big 10th round, when Khan totally dominated Collazo and nearly finished him. But Collazo survived the round, delaying the inevitable and saving himself a knockout loss in the process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full fight<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qYvwd6eowYM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But it was all Khan from the start, who was fighting as a welterweight for the first time after taking a year off.<\/p>\n<p>Khan won on all three judges&#8217; scorecards, by scores of 119-104 twice and 118-106.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One thing about me training with (new trainer) Virgil Hunter,&#8221; Khan said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the first time I&#8217;ve spent good time with him. He taught me good things that you can only put to practice in the ring.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Khan said it was a tough fight to return to after 13 months off at 147 pounds, and especially with Collazo coming off a good knockout win over Victor Ortiz.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said he felt the ring rust through the third round. &#8220;I needed a break from boxing but at the same time I need to work on some stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khan, from Bolton, England, improved to 29-3 with 19 KOs with the victory and put himself in a prime position to fight Mayweather next, probably in September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Collazo (35-6, 18 KOs), said he hurt his left knuckle and said &#8220;Khan&#8217;s style was difficult. He kept grabbing me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Khan said he wanted Mayweather next.<\/strong> &#8220;I&#8217;m the only one to have the speed and explosiveness to give him trouble.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doesn&#8217;t Amir know that Mayweather doesn&#8217;t fight anyone that he could lose to? Especially after his near loss last night to Marcos Maidana!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"Source\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amir Khan knocked Luis Collazo down three times en route to an impressive unanimous decision victory over the Brooklyn fighter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Amir Khan knocked Luis Collazo down three times en route to an impressive unanimous decision victory over the Brooklyn fighter","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":121,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}