{"id":57987,"date":"2016-02-01T03:03:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=57987"},"modified":"2016-02-01T03:03:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T08:03:00","slug":"kell-brook-vs-amir-khan-potentially-on-for-june-4th-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=57987","title":{"rendered":"Kell Brook Vs Amir Khan Potentially On For June 4th &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"polls-1318\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_1318\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_1318_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"18eb77baa9\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"1318\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Who Wins?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-1318-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-3464\" name=\"poll_1318\" value=\"3464\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-3464\">Brook<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-3465\" name=\"poll_1318\" value=\"3465\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-3465\">Khan<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(1318);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(1318); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-1318-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=57987\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57988\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/K-B-AR-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"K B AR\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By Dave \u201cMythical\u201d Siderski<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>British Welterweight rivals Kell Brook and Amir Khan are reportedly close to agreeing to a showdown to take place at Wembley Stadium in London on June 4th. IBF champion Brook is undefeated at 35-0, 24 KO\u2019s and has successfully defended twice since winning a majority decision over Shawn Porter in August 2014. The 29 year old Brook is ranked as the #7 fighter in the world pound for pound by Ring Magazine. Khan, also 29 years old, was the Silver Medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics and holds victories over Marco Antonio Barrera, Andreas Kotelnik, Paulie Malignaggi, Marcos Maidana, and Zab Judah. Khan\u2019s career was derailed by losses to Lamont Peterson, in December 2011, and Danny Garcia, in July 2012. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>However over the past 3+ years, he\u2019s rebounded to win 5 consecutive fights. Potential matchups with Floyd Mayweather, JR. and Manny Pacquiao haven\u2019t panned out, leading to speculation about this bout. This is yet another exciting matchup for a Welterweight division that\u2019s gained new life in the aftermath of Mayweather\u2019s retirement. As Mills Lane would say: \u201cLet\u2019s Get It On!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;1&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ynqIr3bh1Wo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dave \u201cMythical\u201d Siderski British Welterweight rivals Kell Brook and Amir Khan are reportedly close to agreeing to a showdown to take place at Wembley Stadium in London on June 4th. IBF champion Brook is undefeated at 35-0, 24 KO\u2019s and has successfully defended twice since winning a majority decision over Shawn Porter in August [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14543],"class_list":["post-57987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-kell-brook-vs-amir-khan-potentially-on-for-june-4th-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57987"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57987\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}