By Ian Aldous: Dmitriy Salita (33-1-1) is on a mission to become a World Champion. Following his failed challenge for the World Boxing Association (WBA) light-welterweight title against Amir Khan, he’s moved up to welterweight. He also has his own successful promotional company, Salita Promotions. At only 29 years of age, Dmitriy certainly has a lot to offer the sport in the coming years.
Khan vs. Salita
Salita wants rematch with Khan
By Eric Thomas: Dmitri Salita (30-1-1, 16 KO’s) wants a rematch with WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan, who stopped Salita in the 1st round on December 5th in England. Salita, 28, was undefeated at the time that he, with his number #1 ranking in the WBA, stepped up and was viciously smacked down by Khan in one round blowout. Salita was dropped in the opening seconds of the fight and ended up getting knocked down multiple times by Khan.
Froch: ”King Khan just needs a big hug!” – News
By Liam Santiago: World Boxing Council champion, Carl Froch, has finally hit back at Amir Khan’s recent childish outbursts, claiming he can’t stand Froch and so on. The argument started when Froch made an honest comment regarding Khan’s chin and the level of excitement of his fights. About six months later, after finally finding the courage to retaliate Khan made many silly slurs about his dislike for the Nottingham man.
Would it be a shock if Khan is destroyed by his first real good opponent
By Michael Lieberman: I’ve always been rather curious when I see a fighter that is being pumped up by the media and seen as the next big thing. WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (22-1, 16 KO’s) seems to be the latest flavor of the week with his 1st round TKO victory over Dmitriy Salita on December 5th. It wasn’t much of a fight. Salita came out looking both scared and slow on his feet and was promptly dropped by the first combination that Khan threw. No one has ever questioned Khan’s offensive abilities.
What does Khan’s win over Salita prove?
By William Mackay: Last Saturday night, World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan took out Dmitriy Salita in a 1st round knockout at the Metro Arena, in Newcastle. The win appears to have created a minor Khan craze and made boxing fans from all regions view Khan as being the new world wild star in the sport. The win was certainly very spectacular because Khan was able to knock Salita down in the opening seconds with a left-right combination.
Williams-Martinez and Khan-Salita: A look at future opponents
By Eamon McDonald: I will start off this article by saying I am not writing a report on either fight, I am merely going to be suggesting future opponents for last night’s winners: Paul Williams and Amir Khan. What a victory by Khan, Salita obviously isn’t a very good opponent but for him to get destroyed like he did it was impressive.
Khan-Campbell Is One Of Many Possibilities For Khan’s Future
By Peter Wells: After Amir Khan’s fantastic 1st round stoppage of Dmitriy Salita has now opened the doors to a new world of fights. I expected Amir to stop Salita after 7 rounds, not 1, and that was a spectacular display of power and speed, absolutely breath taking. I can say that Khan’s move up to Light Welterweight is the best move of his career, and now there are so many fighters he can chose from, the world is his oyster. But with so many challenges, he is sure to slip up somewhere, that’s why it’s not a good idea to put him in with the elite fighters of the 140lb division just yet.
Khan beats another soft opponent – when will he fight someone good?
By Liam Santiago: Let me get one thing very straight. Dmitriy Salita is one of the weakest light welterweight fighter’s I have ever seen in my entire life. That includes all journeymen, not just champions and challengers. I was in hysterics listening to the sky pundits Glen McCory and Jonny Nelson hyping Salita like he was the next Marciano. Now we will have to listen to World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan’s rants about becoming the best pound for pound fighter in the world and so on.
Observations on Khan-Salita and Prescott-Mitchell
By Scott Gilfoid: First let me start off by saying that the decision given to Kevin Mitchell (30-0, 22 KO’s) was one of the most undeserving that I’ve ever seen since I started following boxing many years ago. No way did I see Mitchell winning this fight, not with the running he did against the hard hitting Breidis Prescott (21-2, 18 KO’s). Man, I haven’t seen running like that since I watched David Haye fight Nikolay Valuev. Mitchell was literally running from Prescott for 12 rounds, especially from rounds nine through twelve.
Will The Real World Champ Step Forward, Frank Warren
By Charles Barrett: 74 seconds was all it took for Amir Khan to send Dmitriy Sialita back to New York
Probably never to be heard of again
I didn’t for one second think Sialita had the tools to dethrone Khan but equally I didn’t foresee quite such an overwhelming victory.