Frânk Wârren: British public have lost interest in Amir Khan's career

[Ruthless-RKO]

Frânk Wârren says the British public have lost interest in Amir Khan's boxing career following his prolonged absence from the ring.

Khan (31-4, 19 KOs) 31, boosted his profile in the U.K. by appearing on the television series I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! which averaged between eight to ten million viewers every night for two weeks.

But Wârren says Khan still needs to convince fight fans he is a serious contender again.

"He came to us and asked if we were interested and they said they had the fight with [Manny] Pacquiao," Wârren told ESPN. "I offered him to fight Bradley Skeete, and he didn't come back.

"He got badly knocked out in his last fight and people have lost interest. I know he's been in the jungle but that's not fighting.

"Realistically we will see what he has got left in his next fight. They said they are looking for a tough opponent, so they should fight Bradley Skeete. But I know they won't."

Khan's ring return -- his first fight on British soil for five years -- will come on the same night as Carl Frampton's featherweight encounter with Nonito Donaire in Belfast.

"It's ridiculous they are having Amir's fight on the same night as Carl Frampton in Belfast," Wârren told ESPN.

"But our fight is a real fight between two quality operators but Khan will be fighting a stiff."

[Ruthless-RKO]

Still bitter...

He wouldn't say that is Khan accepted his offer to fight Skeete.

[Tangerine]

Clearly still salty.

There will always be an interest in watching Khan fight,he brings guaranteed excitement to a fight every time.

And for the rest they will just tune in to see if he gets chinned.

[moogie101]

And yet the prick still tried to sign him, clearly bitter that Khan picked Hearn & the Sky PPV money.

Although it will be interesting to see what effect that time in the jungle has done for him & whether that tempts the casual fans in.

[THEBUTCH]

Khan would be way too good and fast for Skeete.

The bigger picture is a mega fight with Brook. I'm sure that wouldn't escape any promoters awareness.
I subscribe to B0xn@tion and Khan would have made a very welcome addition to the scheduling.

[gilgamesh]

Says the guy that's not promoting him

[banjo]

Nonito Donaire isn't the massive fight Frank is making out either, he's kind of passed it without being shot and very inactive recently.

[Noxy]

He doesn’t actually say that though.

[KiwiRider]

And yet the prick still tried to sign him, clearly bitter that Khan picked Hearn & the Sky PPV money.

Although it will be interesting to see what effect that time in the jungle has done for him & whether that tempts the casual fans in.

Reality TV might get the wives along to his fights.

[Stuarty]

Fwank drinking from the well of bitterness!

[dirk2686]

Khan would be way too good and fast for Skeete.

The bigger picture is a mega fight with Brook. I'm sure that wouldn't escape any promoters awareness.
I subscribe to B0xn@tion and Khan would have made a very welcome addition to the scheduling.

Khan has had the mega fight with Canelo. If he's after another one with Pacquaio and FW says 'no, but I can do Skeete' and Hearn says 'I'll give you a three fight deal; a comeback, then Brook in the summer, then our options open up if you win or lose that to a rematch or we can look at bigger things' he's going to choose Hearn.

Boxers are only human and look at the way the tide has turned in the last decade. Brook, Khan, DeGale, Burns, Cleverly and Bellew all left FW for Hearn. Calzaghe ended up leaving him and seeing him in court. Froch left his own promoter and became absolutely massive, and Joshua is selling out massive stadiums against nobodies.

[rd350lc]

Well he needn't worry about the date clash then !

Everyone will be clearly watching Frampton .

[northern]

Nice to see Frank as ever can let the past be the past and wish someone all the best. Pretty typical and cynical comments about another promoters fighter from the man to be honest.

I do agree wit him that Khan, if he want's to prove to be a contender, should have fought Skeete. It would have proven he's a top British Welter weight if nothing else, should he win.
But reverse the situation, if Warren & Khan had agreed terms he'd have hand picked his own 'stiff' for Khan to come back against and promoted the hell out of it.

[Nightmare Roy]

Well he needn't worry about the date clash then !

Everyone will be clearly watching Frampton .

It's a huge kick in the balls, Frampton is popular but I'd say Khan is a household name even more so after the I'm a celebrity bollox. So it will definitely impact on new sign ups. It bad for fans too, sometime we go weeks without anything worth watching and then they class like this.

[mickey1975]

Khan would be way too good and fast for Skeete.

The bigger picture is a mega fight with Brook. I'm sure that wouldn't escape any promoters awareness.
I subscribe to B0xn@tion and Khan would have made a very welcome addition to the scheduling.

Khan has had the mega fight with Canelo. If he's after another one with Pacquaio and FW says 'no, but I can do Skeete' and Hearn says 'I'll give you a three fight deal; a comeback, then Brook in the summer, then our options open up if you win or lose that to a rematch or we can look at bigger things' he's going to choose Hearn.

Boxers are only human and look at the way the tide has turned in the last decade. Brook, Khan, DeGale, Burns, Cleverly and Bellew all left FW for Hearn. Calzaghe ended up leaving him and seeing him in court. Froch left his own promoter and became absolutely massive, and Joshua is selling out massive stadiums against nobodies.

Josh Warrington and Carl Frampton aren't nobodies.... And Wlad isn't either. Take your head for a sh!t!

[JimJim2009]

Khan would be way too good and fast for Skeete.

The bigger picture is a mega fight with Brook. I'm sure that wouldn't escape any promoters awareness.
I subscribe to B0xn@tion and Khan would have made a very welcome addition to the scheduling.

Right now ANY boxing would make a very welcome addition to the scheduling

[Ringnews24]

Every time I post an article on Khan its very popular with hits and if I read a post about Khan on social media it's always full of replys.

He may not be popular going by some of the reply's but he certainly still has public interest and a lot of boxing fans will watch just to see his chicken dance.

[rd350lc]

Well he needn't worry about the date clash then !

Everyone will be clearly watching Frampton .

It's a huge kick in the balls, Frampton is popular but I'd say Khan is a household name even more so after the I'm a celebrity bollox. So it will definitely impact on new sign ups. It bad for fans too, sometime we go weeks without anything worth watching and then they class like this.

Totally agree Roy , was a bit of sarcasm.

And I too don't understand why boxing seems to stop in this country in January every year .

[TheCobra]

Bitter Warren. Khan still has a big public profile and the jungle won't have done that any harm at all.
I'm still interested enough to watch, I'm sure most here are.

[Manc_Red]

I'll watch Khan & hope the old glass chin gets smashed with ease as per usual.

If he somehow can make the third fight of the contract with Eddie, I'm sure Brook will have way too much for him and put him into retirement.

[Jackson328]

Sour grapes again from the bunny man. They may have lost interest in his career but the casual market is still there after the jungle bollocks and most people in the UK know who Amir Khan is. The really best decision Khan could have taken was to sign up with Hearn/Sky, its a no-brainer at his stage, Frampton should have done the same.