McAllister eyes destiny Khan bout

McAllister will box for a European pretension in February

Lee McAllister believes his EBU light-welterweight strife with champion Denis Shafikov could be a gateway to a dream quarrel opposite Amir Khan.

The dominant 24-year-old Russian will revisit Aberdeen Exhibition Centre on 25 Feb to urge his European title.

“The final light-welterweight European champion from Britain was Paul McCloskey and he got a shot during Khan,” pronounced McAllister.

“If we get a shot during Khan subsequent year we will be buzzing. we would adore it.”

McAllister, nicknamed ‘The Aberdeen Assassin’, is magnificently assured forward of a assembly with Shafikov and a 29-year-old Scot is wakeful that he his coming a finish of his career.

“I have usually have a few years left and whatever we grasp in a subsequent 3 years, that will be it, my dreams will be finished and we will have to go behind to get a normal pursuit like everybody else,” explained a Commonwealth and IBO general champion.

“Shirkov will come over and try to move me though he is in for a shock. we will be prepared to hit him out.

“On paper it will be my hardest quarrel to date though we will ready right and he will get sent behind with his tail between his legs.

“But to be honest, I’m not unequivocally meddlesome in him. we am utterly happy to do my possess thing and let him worry about me. He has no chance.”