AMIR KHAN nestled on the couch at the family home in Bolton yesterday morning, his father, Shajaad, by his side, and flicked on the video recorder. The tape he was about to watch did not make for the pretty viewing he had expected it would only 24 hours earlier. The Olympic lightweight silver medal-winner winced as he was reminded of the punch that nearly plunged into chaos a career that, the Athens Games aside, has barely even begun.
“It was a good shot,” Khan said of the left hook that flattened him on his senior debut in the Amateur Boxing Association Championships in Preston on Monday night, but the ramifications run deeper.
Craig Watson, a builder’s labourer from Manchester, whose shot it was that almost