Boxer Amir Khan Knocked Out Thugs In a Street Brawl

Most professional boxers prefer to do their fighting in the ring simply because they get paid for it. However, once in a while they might be tempted to show off their skills in the street, especially if somebody’s trying to steal their $160,000 car. This was the case in England recently when former WBA and IBF Junior Welterweight Champion Amir Khan (26-3, 18 KOs) and his brother Haroon, who’s a top amateur boxer, took on half a dozen thugs on the streets of Birmingham, England’s second-largest city. The Khan brothers laid a beating on the would-be thieves and protected Amir’s Range rover, but their father Shah Khan told the British press that he wasn’t too happy with his sons. Khan Sr. said he told the boys that it takes a bigger man to walk away from an altercation and they should have let the thugs have the car since it’s insured anyway. He added that it was a silly incident, but those things happen because there are a lot of silly people out there. The problem started when the cr...