Amir Khan suffered plenty of highs and lows during his 17-year career, becoming champion at the age of just 21-years-old but being on the end of five knockout defeats, and he has now revealed what he believes to have been the saddest point of his career.
Khan famously lost to Breidis Prescott via first-round knockout in one of boxing’s most memorable upsets, but managed to get his career back on track, defeating legendary Marco Antonio Barrera and Andreas Kotelnik to become super-lightweight world champion.
However, speaking to Gambling Zone, Khan explained that his loss to Kell Brook, in his final bout before retirement, was the saddest moment of his career and could possibly prompt him to return to the ring.
“The saddest time in boxing for me was probably my last fight against Kell Brook, to see myself leave the sport that way. You always want to finish on a high note, and obviously I didn’t finish on a high note.
“Obviously for me that was the saddest moment. Maybe that’s God’s plan that I will now start to finish on a high note against Mayweather or Pacquiao now Saudi are opening doors, but the Brook fight was the saddest moment.
“It hurt a lot because of the rivalry and I was a better fighter than him and I achieved a lot more than him in the sport. Saying that, it would have hurt a lot more if I had lost to him at my peak.
“I have it in the back of my mind that I could have beaten him in prime, everyone knows that. But we’re friends now, he was the better man on the night.
Khan has been linked to a clash with Manny Pacquiao in recent days, but Conor Benn is also being touted to face the Filipino in Saudi Arabia.