Amir Khan targets Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia rematches

Amir Khan has said that he wants to avenge his defeats to both Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia.

The Bolton fighter was beaten at light-welterweight in back-to-back defeats by the pair in late 2011 and last summer respectively, and he admits that they are two clashes that he wants to see happen again.

"There are two fights I still want at 140 – Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson," Khan is quoted as saying in The Telegraph.

"That's why I'm at catchweight for this fight [against Julio Diaz]. I don't want to move up to welterweight yet. It will be hard to come back down."

The 26-year-old was beaten in controversial circumstances by Peterson in Washington DC in December 2011 before he was emphatically stopped in the fourth round against Garcia in Las Vegas last July.

Khan squares off against Mexican fight Diaz in Sheffield next month.