Amir Khan

Amir Khan got engaged to Pakistani-American student, Faryal Makhdoom, on January 29, 2012 in an event attended by a thousand friends and family members. Their wedding on May 31, 2013 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City was followed by a traditional Walima celebration in Manchester in front of 4,000 guests.

The couple welcomed a daughter, Lamaisah, on May 23, 2014. He announced his impending split from his wife in August 2017, but the two later reconciled.

He has launched Amir Khan Academy in his hometown Bolton and in Islamabad. He has also announced his plans to open a banqueting hall in Bolton.

Amir Iqbal Khan was born on December 8, 1986 in Bolton, Greater Manchester, into a Punjabi Rajput family originally from the village of Matore in Rawalpindi district of the Punjab, Pakistan. His father, Shajaad Khan, is a local scrap dealer in Bolton.

He has two sisters, Tabindah Khan and Mariyah Khan, a younger brother, Haroon "Harry" Khan, and is the first cousin of English cricketer Sajid Mahmood. He went to Smithills School in Bolton, and later enrolled into Bolton Community College.

At the age of 11, while still studying at Smithills School, Amir Khan began to participate in competitive boxing at the Bury Amateur Club. During his amateur career, he won gold medals at the 2003 Junior Olympics, the 2004 European Student Championships and the 2004 World Junior Championships.

The highlights of his early career include winning an amateur match against Victor Ortíz in a second round stoppage and winning the Strandja Cup to qualify for the Olympics in Athens. At 17, he became the youngest boxer to represent Britain in the Olympics in almost three decades, and earned a silver medal in the lightweight boxing category, becoming the youngest Briton to achieve this feat.

His bout against Australian Gary St Clair in a contest for the Commonwealth lightweight title at the ExCel Arena in London was his first fight to last 12 rounds, but he won by unanimous decision. As the third ranked WBO fighter, he defeated fourth ranked Martin Kristjansen in the seventh round of a WBO lightweight title eliminator on April 5, 2008.

His next fight was against super featherweight champion, Michael Gomez. on June 21, 2008, a fight he won despite being knocked down in the second round. After parting ways with trainer Oliver Harrison a few months back, his new trainer Jorge Rubio scheduled a fight against lightweight Breidis Prescott in August 2008, which he lost in just 55 seconds.

He replaced Rubio with Freddie Roach, and made a comeback against WBO world lightweight top ranker Marco Antonio Barrera, his highest-profile opponent to date, whom he defeated by a technical decision on March 14, 2009. On July 18, 2009, he became the third-youngest Brit to win a world title following his WBA light welterweight title win at the MEN Arena in Manchester against Andreas Kotelnik.

Amir Khan became the youngest British national to win an Olympic medal at the age of 17, and at 22, he won the WBA title as one of the youngest ever British professional world champions. He held the Commonwealth lightweight title from 2007 to 2008, the WBA title from 2009 to 2012, the WBC Silver welterweight title from 2014 to 2016 and the IBF title in 2011.