Crowds gather to see boxing champ

Published 7 Oct 2009 14:35 0 Comments

EXCITED crowds gathered with their pens and cameras at the ready to welcome boxer Amir Khan to Maidenhead.

The light welterweight champion of the world rolled up to Baba's Grill in Queen Street in a silver Range Rover to officially open the takeaway.

Shop owner Amir Kabal who is Khan's uncle asked the champ to drop by on his way to London for the ceremony.

Mr Kabal said: "We just asked him to pop by and officially open the shop and spend some time with us. We didn't expect so many people to turn up.

"Someone saw him arriving and then told their friends and then they told their friends and we had about 60 fans out in the street. People even came from Slough to see him."

A PCSO was drafted in to manage the crowds as Amir spent time talking to fans and posing for photographs at the shop on Friday afternoon. (October 2)

Mr Kabal added: "He was wonderful with the kids and everyone was very excited to see him. To us he is just family but to the world he is a boxing legend."

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