Fight For Your Life
By Amir Khan
Century
ISBN: 9781529907698
320pp.

He may have retired from professional boxing but Amir Khan still has a lot to offer, both as a sportsman and as a human being. The former world champion, whose philanthropic activities keep him in the news after retirement, had an eventful career about which he hasn’t said much until now. He uses his autobiography Fight for Your Life to reveal the good, the bad and the ugly details of incidents he was involved in, hoping to be appreciated for his victories and forgiven for his antics.

Those who have followed Amir Khan’s career can easily guess the contents of this book, which follows his rise, fall and comeback as an international boxer. Not only did he win a silver medal in his first-ever Olympic Games, before his 18th birthday, but he also became one of the youngest-ever British professional world champions at the age of 22. He is mostly remembered for holding the unified light-welterweight World Championships titles — including the World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) — between 2009 and 2012.

However, it is the controversies he has been a part of which the readers want to know about and he talks about every one of them, even though some might not accept his reasoning behind the acts. After all, being part of a leaked sex tape, a Twitter melodrama involving your wife and an opponent, and a failed drug test at the twilight of your career is something one could avoid, using common sense.

The book’s beginning might remind some readers of the opening of Andre Agassi’s Open, where the tennis champion’s life flashed before his eyes after his final encounter. Amir Khan (with help from ghostwriter John Woodhouse) begins his autobiography on the same lines, although he chooses his final fight in America against Terence Crawford instead of his final........

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