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  Ten minutes with a legend: Jon Wilks discusses the recent Laureus Sports Awards with the current WBA world light welterweight champion   Are you feeling confident about your form at the moment? I’m very confident. I’ve just signed a deal with [leading boxing promoter] Golden Boy Promotions and I want to impress them, so I’m training twice as hard. That’s the same promoter as Manny Pacquiao. Are you going to be sparring with him? I’ll be doing a few things with Manny, but in more of a current fighting style. I’ve sparred against him before. I did really well and my trainer was quite impressed. Manny came up and said I was the fastest guy he’d ever faced at the time. Are you surprised he wasn’t a contender for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year award? I’m very surprised. He’s had some big fights. I think with boxing, only very few people get enough publicity. Manny’s huge and he’s done so much for the game, but he’s not got that thing, that image that means he’s goin...

Trainer:  Amir Khan Could Beat Alexander, Bradley, Maidana 'In One Night' By   Lem Satterfield Four-time Trainer of the Year   Freddie Roach   told FanHouse recently that he would like to see WBA junior welterweight (140 pounds) king   Amir Khan   of England against one of four other fighters. Those fighters would be either WBA and WBO lightweight (135 pounds) titlist   Juan Manuel Marquez , or junior welterweight champion counterparts   Tim Bradley   of the WBO, southpaw   Devon Alexander   of the WBC and IBF, or interim WBA belt holder   Marcos Rene Maidana . But with the 36-year-old Marquez (50-5-1, 37 KOs) heavily weighing a fall defense against 29-year-old WBO interim lightweight titlist   Michael Katsidis   (27-2, 22 KOs) of Australia , that would leave the 23-year-old Alexander (21-0, 13 KOs), or either Bradley (26-0, 11 KOs) or Maidana (28-1, 27 KOs ), each of whom is 26. "Any one of those guys out ther...