By Scott Gilfoid: Promoter Eddie Hearn wants Amir Khan to face Kell Brook after his next fight against Samuel Vargas, even though there’s a good money fight available to him against Manny Pacquiao. Hearn maintains that Khan (32-4, 20 KOs) can make more money fighting Brook (37-2, 26 KOs) than he can facing anyone else in the sport.
By Jeff Aranow: Amir Khan’s promoter Eddie Hearn says Amir Khan has the style to give WBO welterweight champion Terence Crawford a lot of problems when/if the two of them face each other in the future. Khan (32-4, 20 KOs) is taking a tune-up fight against low level contender Samuel Vargas (29-3-2, 14 KOs) on September 8 in Birmingham, UK.
By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan says he spoke to Top Rank promoter Bob Arum and he says he’s interested in matching him against his former pay-per-view star Manny Pacquiao. This is a fight that Khan (32-4, 20 KOs) has practically been salivating over for ages now, but for some reason Arum has held off at making it.
By Scott Gilfoid: Eddie Hearn is reportedly in conversation with the World Boxing Association to try and get them to make the Amir Khan vs. Samuel Vargas fight a final eliminator for the WBA ‘regular’ welterweight title to face the winner of the July 15th fight between Lucas Matthysse and Manny Pacquiao.
By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan will be making his second fight of his comeback on September 8 against Samuel Vargas at Arena Birmingham in Birmingham, England. The former light welterweight champion Khan (32-4, 20 KOs) is being given a slight step up in 29-year-old Vargas from his last opponent Phil Lo Greco, who he blitzed in scoring a 1st round knockout last April.
By Allan Fox: Amir Khan (32-4, 20 KOs) is rumored to be facing #10 WBA Samuel Vargas (29-3-2, 14 KOs) in his next fight this summer. Khan’s next fight is expected to be announced this Thursday by his promoter Eddie Hearn of Matchroom Boxing.
It’s fitting that boxers are often called warriors, as fighters truly understand suffering and hardship.
Samuel Vargas has been on boxing’s biggest stage, and he’s determined to prove that he still belongs there.
On August 19, Vargas steps up in one of the biggest fights of his career, as he battles Ali Funeka in the main event of Lee Baxter Promotions’ second event at the Brampton Powerade Centre.
By Dan Ambrose: Last night, WBC welterweight champion Danny Garcia (33-0, 19 KOs) cleared the way for his big unification match Keith “One Time” Thurman (27-0, 22 KOs) with a 7th round knockout victory over Samuel Vargas (25-3-1, 13 KOs) on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike from the Temple University’s Liacouras Center in Philadelphia.
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Thurman was in attendance to watch the Garcia-Vargas fight, and he came away unimpressed by what he saw of the hand speed and the mobility of Garcia. In Thurman’s opinion, the 28-year-old Garcia is “flat-footed and slow” and he plans on taking advantage of those weaknesses when they face each other on March 4 in a unification match at a still to be determined venue in the U.S.
By Dan Ambrose: WBC welterweight champion Danny “Swift” Garcia (33-0, 19 KOs) took care of business in stopping a badly over-matched tune-up opponent Samuel Vargas (25-3-1, 13 KOs) in the 7th round on Saturday night in their fight on Premier Boxing Champions on Spike from the Liacouras Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.