Amir Khan Beat Julio Diaz
SHEFFIELD: Amir Khan came back from a knockdown to beat a fast-finishing Julio Diaz by unanimous decision at Motorpoint Arena on Saturday.
Khan, trying to recover his reputation after successive losses to Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia in the last 16 months, was cruising early against Diaz, the aging former two-time world lightweight champ.
Then Diaz exposed Khan's weakness by dumping him with a left hook in the fourth round, and staggered the former world light-welter champ with hooks in the eighth, 10th and 11th rounds.
But Khan (28-3, 19 KO) deserved his slim victory, judged 115-113, 115-112, 114-113. Diaz's record fell to 40-8-1.
