Khan's Legacy May be Greater than Even his Boxing Career

Today Sportsvibe proudly presents two filmed interviews with Amir Khan, the current WBA world light-welterweight boxing champion of the world, and already one of the most respected and famous fighters on the planet.

He is still only 24 years old, having won an Olympic silver medal back in 2004 when he was just 17 years of age. We respect him as a sportsman, of course, but we respect him even more because of how he and his family have reacted to their success.

Take a trip to Prince Street in Bolton and you may be able to see for yourselves. The Gloves Community Centre will be the Khan's legacy long after Amir calls it a day which, he tells us, will be in four years' time. It is here that kids can come to learn how to box. It is also here where they can come just to talk, to use a computer room to study, to work or to look for jobs. As Khan tells us, even in this day there is too much street crime, and too many guns and knives in the area. It is his hope that the Community Centre at the very least keeps them out of trouble, although he harbours hopes that the next Amir Khan will be created at his very own gym, where there are two boxing rings and all facilities required.

Throw in the many causes he has supported - the Asian Tsunami, the Kashmir earthquake, child safety on British railways, a charity designed to end violence between men and women in families, and even minor cases ( when we visited Bolton Amir presented a boy whose bag had been stolen with a new bag and the chance to meet him and hang out in the gym) -  and this is what the public should focus on when seeing the man for the first time in a ring.

His latest cause means the most to him and his family. When floods ravaged Pakistan last summer the world took up and noticed. Six months on we have moved on to other global problems, not least the recent floods in Queensland and Rio. But the people in Pakistan, some 20 million over a fifth of the country's land, are still suffering from their familial or possessional losses. Khan has been out to help fetch water, hand out vouchers and generally provide some comfort. Now he wants to build two new schools.

Sportsvibe urges our followers to make donations to the Pakistani Flood Appeal, and also to support Amir's function in Bolton on Sunday (see details in Sportsvibe TV or in Articles) where 100% of all monies will go towards those most in need in Pakistan.

We also urge you to keep watching Khan. His business in the ring is not finished yet. By the time it is he might just go down as one of the greatest of all time. .