AFP INTERVIEW: Confident Khan targets champion status in three years

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BOLTON, England (AFP) — Even before he throws his first professional punch on July 16, Amir Khan is already a household name in Britain.

Khan was one of the stars of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens when he won the lightweight silver medal in his first year as a senior amateur boxer.

At just 17 and as Great Britain's only boxer at the Games, Khan showed precocious boxing skills and lightening speed.

His immediate success as an amateur has propelled Khan inevitably towards professional boxing and he hopes to become a world champion in three years.

"The target is to be one of the youngest ever world champions by the time I'm 21," Khan told AFP in an exclusive interview.

No British amateur boxer has had such publicity and nor has there been so...