Amir Khan reveals KSI fight timeline amid offer to replace Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul Associated PressAmir Khan is hopeful his proposed fight against KSI will be announced in the \u201cnext four weeks\u201d and has warned the YouTube star and his rival Jake Paul that he plans to knock both of them out in his next two fights. Khan, a former unified super-lightweight world champion, has not fought since a high profile defeat to long time British rival Kell Brook in February 2022. The 37-year-old has recently returned from a two-year ban for unintentionally ingesting the banned substance ostarine and although he is officially retired from the professional boxing game, he is said to be considering a return to the ring. It has emerged that he is in talks with influencer boxing superstar KSI over a fight in the UK in August, and Khan took to social media to reveal his plan to not only beat KSI in 2024, but also Paul in the early part of 2025. And now Khan has revealed he is hopeful of getting a fight announcement with KSI within the next four weeks. \u201cIf it was to be signed and done, I think we will get an announcement in the next four weeks and then we will start to prepare,\u201d Khan told Offshore Poker Sites. \u201cThe UK [is my preference] because boxing fans always turn out and everyone in the UK will want me to smash his face in. He\u2019s picking someone who\u2019s very dangerous and can hurt him quite badly.\u201d Should he beat KSI, Khan wants to fight Paul after his bout with Mike Tyson. Paul vs Tyson was initially scheduled for July 20 but was postponed on medical grounds, after Tyson took ill on a flight from Los Angeles to Miami. Netflix are said to be determined to ensure Paul vs Tyson is the first boxing event they broadcast and are said to have swatted away possible replacements to fight Paul on the initial July date. As such, that fight is expected to be rearranged for the final quarter of 2024 and, although Khan would have been willing to replace Tyson in July, he is keen to entertain a fight with Paul if he beats the former heavyweight champion of the world. \u201cMike Tyson is long past his best and really doesn\u2019t have it in anymore, but I\u2019ve still got it in me. I\u2019m still training and keeping fit. He\u2019s messing around with someone who just recently retired,\u201d Khan added. \u201cThey want to get lawyers involved and everything, the negotiations have got that far. I\u2019m a prizefighter and if it makes sense financially then 100% [it will happen]. These YouTubers sometimes bite off more than they can chew. \u201cHe\u2019s said he wants to fight and when the contract is signed, he\u2019s going to get hurt. He will understand then that there\u2019s no turning back then. He might be taking the fight for a bit of hype, but I\u2019m not taking it as a joke. \u201cIf the weights are right [I would step in for Mike Tyson] I don\u2019t mind giving away 20 pounds. It just depends on the weight because I know Jake has put on a lot of weight to fight Mike. \u201cJake\u2019s not normally that big, but he\u2019s put on a lot of mass, so it depends on him, whether he\u2019s willing to lose that weight and we find some middle ground somewhere. \u201cLet\u2019s see, but I\u2019ve had no calls about that, so I assume they\u2019re still hoping to fight Mike, he\u2019s not going to want to take a beating before that. \u201cBut it\u2019s KSI who has been speaking the big game and once he\u2019s taken a beating, and if I\u2019m going to do that, I may as well bang both of them out. I\u2019d take on KSI first and then knock Jake Paul out after that. \u201cLet\u2019s see how he looks against Mike Tyson, if he gets knocked out badly I wouldn\u2019t entertain it, but if he looks really good, then it would be worth entertaining.\u201d For all the biggest results and upcoming fights this year, check out Dexerto\u2019s 2024 boxing schedule. Head over to our influencer boxing hub to stay tuned to all the best fights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Amir Khan reveals KSI fight timeline amid offer to replace Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul Associated PressAmir Khan is hopeful his proposed fight against KSI will be announced in the \u201cnext four weeks\u201d and has warned the YouTube star and his rival Jake Paul that he plans to knock both of them out in his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}