NATIONAL amateur lightweight boxing champion Imran `Magic’ Khan is set to have a lengthy unintentional hiatus from the sport after suffering injuries to his left hand last Sunday in Albouystown.Reports reaching this newspaper stated that the 21-year-old policeman was chopped about the body following an altercation in his hometown.
Khan suffered deep cuts to his left hand and would be laid up for months. He was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where doctors immediately treated him and discharged him the following day.
Khan was assaulted while in front of the Harpy Eagles Gym where he started boxing. According to an eyewitness, Khan had an argument with a man in a yard in Albouystown. The man left and returned with three men and viciously attacked him. He couldn’t do anything. When they left it looked like his whole hand had come off.
One gash to the hand required over 30 stitches. Khan is no stranger to controversy. In January 2012 he was stabbed on the left arm following another incident in Albouystown.
The talented fighter was named joint Junior Sportsman-of-the-Year for 2011. That same year he won bronze at the ALBA games in Venezuela after defeating Kenny Canon of the host country 4-1. He was also named the Boxer-of-the-Year by the Guyana Boxing Association for the same period.
The lanky Harpy Eagles fighter was a gold medallist at the inaugural Goodwill Games hosted last year by the GBA and over the years competed in both the bantamweight and lightweight divisions with ease. He was recently left out of a GBA team that travelled to Tijuana, Mexico for the Pan Am Qualifiers.