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Khan-Salita: live on Sky Box Office

KING KHAN
THE FIRST DEFENCE
Live on Sky Box Office & in HD
8pm, Saturday, December 5
Channel 743 and 752

Also see

• Khan gets Salita
• Khan-Kotelnik report
• Khan in pics
• Khan home

Amir makes the first defence of his world title in King Khan The First Defence, a Sky Box Office event featuring four other rising stars of British boxing on Saturday, December 5.

Britain's light-welterweight world champion faces undefeated New York-based Ukrainian, Dmitriy Salita, as the headline fight of the evening. Salita is yet to lose in 31 professional fights, winning 30 of them, 16 by knockout.

The bumper night of boxing from Newcastle's Metro Radio Arena also includes the world title eliminator between Dagenham's Kevin Mitchell and Khan's only conqueror to date, Breidis Prescott, plus Beijing Olympic stars James DeGale, Billy Joe Saunders and Frankie Gavin.

Mitchell, unbeaten in 29 fights, has long been one of the nation's brightest prospects and knows a win over the hard-hitting Colombian will catapult him onto the world scene.

DeGale, Saunders and Gavin have won their first four professional fights after setting the world amateur scene alight and are looking to round off sensational years in style.

Olympic silver medallist Khan will be defending the WBA world title that he won by beating Andreas Kotelnik last July in Manchester. The win made him Britain's third-youngest world champion after Naseem Hamed and Herbie Hide.

Outstanding

Khan is trained by three-time American Boxing Writers' Trainer of the Year, Freddie Roach. In his illustrious career Roach has also trained world champions Mike Tyson, Oscar De La Hoya and Steve Collins.

This weekend he aims to guide Manny Pacquiao to becoming a five-weight world champion against Miguel Cotto in Las Vegas.

Salita's strong professional record has been built upon a very impressive amateur pedigree. He won the 2001 New York Golden Gloves award, where he earned the Sugar Ray Robinson Award as the outstanding boxer in the tournament.

Sky Sports boxing pundit Glenn McCrory said: "This is one of Amir's toughest fights to date, against an undefeated fighter who really means business.

"Khan has improved so much since working with Freddie Roach, who has managed to make him an even more explosive fighter.

"With a fantastic undercard as well, involving our stars from the Beijing Olympics, it could prove to be yet another great night for British boxing."