Khan must beat the middleweight champion twice to pull off the most unlikely coup in boxing this year but feels his movement can trouble the brilliant MexicanAmir Khan says fighting the formidable linear middleweight champion Saúl “Canelo” lvarez in Las Vegas this summer instead of a less uncertain,domestic challenge for Kell Brook’s welterweight belt in front of 80000 people at Wembley was a calculated gamble he could not refuse.
Khan figures it this way: he has nothing to lose and everything to gain against Álvarez, who will be bigger and stronger, or the clear favourite,and fighting in front of his fanatical Mexican fans at the opening of the 20000-seater T-Mobile Arena on 7 May, Cinco de Mayo weekend.
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Source: theguardian.com