Khan parts company with Roach

Former world light-welterweight champion Amir Khan has confirmed that he will no longer be trained by Freddie Roach.

The Bolton man suffered defeat to Philadelphia's Danny Garcia this summer and feels he needs a trainer in order to take his career forwards.

The split follows weeks of speculation, in which it was suggested that Khan's management team had told Roach that his services would no longer be required if he didn't agree to give Khan his full attention.

Roach, a multiple trainer of the year and Hall of Fame inductee, has a stable featuring the likes of Manny Pacquiao and Julio Cesar Chavez Jnr so would not be able to commit to such an agreement.

Khan wrote on his Twitter account: "Officially I've left Freddie Roach. Just spoke to him and had a good professional chat and maybe in the future we work together.

"Freddie understood why I'm looking at other trainers and wished me all the best for the future. Who do my followers think I should go with?"

It has been rumoured that Khan's next trainer could be Nazim Richardson, the man who has trained the likes of Shane Mosley and Bernard Hopkins in recent years.

Roach took over the stewardship of Khan in late 2008 when the British fighter was attempting to rebuild from his devastating loss to Colombian banger Breidis Prescott.

And was widely credited with re-establishing Khan's confidence and boxing style until he suffered back to back defeats to Lamont Peterson and the aforementioned Garcia.