Amir Khan vs Chris Algieri set for welterweight bout at May 29.

Khan and Algieri already announcement their upcoming fight welterweight bout on May 29 at the Barclays Center in New York, in the main event of a Spike TV-televised Premier Boxing Champions card (9 p.m. ET). Khan and Algieri both are a former junior welterweight titlist.


British's Khan, 28, will be fighting in New York for the second time. In 2010, Khan knocked out New Yorker Paulie Malignaggi in a one-sided junior welterweight title defense at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. Khan is excited about coming back to the Big Apple.


Khan (30-3, 19 knockouts) of Bolton, England, will be fighting for the first time since his one-sided win over Devon Alexander in December, and has won four straight fights since teaming up with trainer Virgil Hunter. The 28-year-old Khan won his first title in 2009, decisioning Andriy Kotelnik for the WBA junior welterweight title, and unified the IBF title in 2011 with a fifth-round knockout of Zab Judah.

Khan then lost back-to-back fights to Lamont Peterson and Danny Garcia before moving up in weight to 147 pounds in search of fights with pay-per-view stars Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao.

Algieri (20-1, 8 KOs) of Huntington, N.Y. hasn’t fought since November of last year, when he lost a unanimous decision to Pacquiao in Macau, China. The 31-year-old will be returning to the site of his biggest victory, when he upset Ruslan Provodnikov last June in Brooklyn to win the WBO junior welterweight title