World Champion Amir Khan Beats Dmitriy Salita, In Pictures
AMIR Khan took just 76 seconds to defeat New York challenger Dmitriy Salita. Not a single tabloid’s back page features the event. Is Britain so blessed with world champions that Khan can be so ignored as he retains his WBA Light-Welterweight Title bout at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle? Two footballers swing handbags and it’s all over the papers. A boxer uses skill to fight and he’s buried towards the middle of the newssheets, or ignored as the nation’s biggest selling Sunday, the NoTW, sees fit. We’ve got the pictures of the fight:
December 6th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
My last comment is still in moderation but I’ve since discovered that ITV don’t have the boxing rights any more – it’s all on Sky Sport pay per view.
I only know that because my son’s friend’s dad is mightily pissed off that he paid to watch last night and it only lasted 76 seconds
December 6th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Was it shown on telly? If it wasn’t for Anorak, I wouldn’t have known Amir was fighting.
They usually say what he’s up to on our local news but I haven’t heard anything since he was last in trouble for his driving.
What’s changed? They used to talk about him all the time.
December 6th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Our newspapers do not mention Khan in NY because we are ashamed of this loss. It symbolises Israel too much: if it weren’t for massive support from the US Israel would have been KO within 10 seconds too. Now we hang on to US even if it will be destroyed economically too with us just to survive. Happily the American people are stupid enough to let us. They believed our lies about wmd in Iraq and they believe them now about Iran too. We can get them to wage trillion dollar wars for us!
WOW – thanks for the truth. They say Khan’s gloves are radio controlled by a tream of Jews. Sddam hussein: Jew. Ahmadinejad: Jew. mother Teresa: Jews. It goes on…