{"id":193436,"date":"2016-05-05T12:16:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=193436"},"modified":"2016-05-05T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T19:16:40","slug":"boxing-star-amir-khan-thinks-conor-mcgregor-moved-weight-wrong-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/amir-khan\/boxing-star-amir-khan-thinks-conor-mcgregor-moved-weight-wrong-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing star Amir Khan thinks Conor McGregor moved up in weight the wrong way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two of <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/canelo-alvarez\/video-hbo-247-canelokhan-episode-1\/\">boxing&#8217;s biggest current stars<\/a> are set to fight in the ring on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) looks to defend his WBC middleweight title against former light welterweight champion Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs).<\/p>\n<p>Khan will be moving up two weight classes for the fight against the bigger Alvarez and spoke with ESPN&#8217;s Todd Grisham. When asked about Conor McGregor&#8217;s move up in weight to fight Nate Diaz, Khan had an interesting comment.<\/p>\n<p>Khan replied that McGregor may have &#8220;ate his way up in weight&#8221; instead of putting on muscle.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Amir told me he thinks Conor Mcgregor &quot;ate his way up in weight&quot; instead of using training to add muscle like he has for Canelo fight.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Todd Grisham (@GrishamESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrishamESPN\/status\/727937096795734016\">May 4, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>McGregor has made it known that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-says-he-will-school-nate-diaz-in-a-rematch\/\">eating a lot<\/a> ahead of the fight with Diaz, and declares that he will come in light and lean in a future rematch with Diaz.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Khan has expressed a bit of interest <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/amir-khan-likes-his-odds-against-conor-mcgregor-ahead-of-potential-jump-to-mma\/\">in fighting MMA<\/a> and has brought up Conor McGregor&#8217;s name as an opponent.<\/p>\n<p>We will see what the future holds for Amir Khan as he is set for one of the biggest fights of his career against Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez on May 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two of boxing&#8217;s biggest current stars are set to fight in the ring on Saturday. Saul \u2018Canelo\u2019 Alvarez (46-1-1, 32 KOs) looks to defend his WBC middleweight title against former light welterweight champion Amir Khan (31-3, 19 KOs). Khan will be moving up two weight classes for the fight against the bigger Alvarez and spoke [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54422,"featured_media":189508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10326],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Boxing star Amir Khan thinks Conor McGregor moved up in weight the wrong way | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/boxing-news\/amir-khan\/boxing-star-amir-khan-thinks-conor-mcgregor-moved-weight-wrong-way\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Boxing star Amir Khan thinks Conor McGregor moved up in weight the wrong way | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two of boxing&#8217;s biggest current stars are set to fight in the ring on Saturday. 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