AMIR KHAN is hoping he has the secret weapon in his corner to beat Kell Brook in trainer Brian ‘BoMac’ McIntyre’.
And the American certainly knows a thing or two about both Brits ahead of their Manchester grudge scrap.
McIntyre, who fought 21 times as a pro, winning seven, trained undefeated WBO champ Terence Crawford to victories against both Brits.
But now he has taken Bolton star Khan under his wing, in part thanks to Khan’s wife Faryal Makhdoom, training him in Omaha and Colorado in the US.
It should be a huge advantage for Khan to have McIntyre in his corner.
Back in November 2020 McIntyre guided Crawford to a stunning fourth-round KO of Brook at an empty MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
And Khan has decided to let bygones be bygones after his own defeat to Crawford in April 2019.
That ended is somewhat controversial fashion with Khan pulled out by his corner after six rounds.
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He claimed he could not continue after being on the receiving end of a low blow in the fifth – but many have scoffed at that claim with the Brit getting a bit of a beating.
Now McIntyre, who has published a book called ‘The Art Of The Jab’, is Khan’s guiding light as he aims to end years of trash-talking and beat Brook.
And the Nebraska man believes Khan can do EXACTLY what Crawford did and stop Brook.
He told Sky Sports: “After seeing what Crawford did to Kell, I believe that Amir can do the same thing.
“Brook will do what he has to do to win. That’s what we call the storm.
“Once you get past the storm? It’s downhill after that.
“You’ve got to mentally prepare for that. In the corner, we say: ‘This is the storm that we talked about in the gym’.”
McIntyre has certainly put Khan through a gruelling training camp. He has had the 35-year-old running around snow-covered mountains while he encourages from his car.
Khan has been sparring four-minute rounds, as oppose to regulatory three-minutes, with McIntyre only allowing 30 seconds rest in between.
The American has revealed that it was Khan’s wife Faryal who ‘got in contact with one of the trainers’ that ultimately saw them link up.
He told Boxing Insider: “Another guy had hit me up on Instagram so we kind of came together and talked a little bit.
“He came out to Omaha for like a week to have a good conversation and sort out the business and try to train with us for a little bit. That went really well.
“Couple weeks later, we headed out to Colorado Springs and he came out there.”
And McIntyre feels he has the tools to show Khan how to beat Brook. After all he has triumphed against the Sheffield hitter before.
He added: “I figure if I can beat Kell Brook one time, I can beat him a second time. It was a pretty easy decision.”
McIntyre has fine tuned Khan to improve his close-quarters boxing which he believes is the key to beating Brook.
And after he led Crawford to what was an easy victory against ‘Special K’, you wouldn’t back against McIntyre going 2-0 up on Saturday night.
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