AS millions of fans cheered on Amir Khan in his last fight, there was one person who was not watching.

While proud of her husband's achievements, 23-year-old Faryal says she has no plans to watch him in the boxing ring any time soon.

Faryal, who was 19 when she met the Bolton boxer in her native New York, says she cannot stand to see the 28-year get punched and prefers to stay at home and pray.

She said: "I don't watch the fight.

"I've never even been to the hotel.

"My phone is off and I get a call from one of my best friends on the house phone, she tells me he's fine.

"When you love someone so much, it's hard to see them getting punched — even when they are winning.

"The week before, I can't even eat or think straight."

Many people have told her she should watch his recent WBC welterweight fight, in which he beat Devon Alexander in spectacular style in Las Vegas, but she is adamant.

She said: "I heard such good things about the last fight that made me proud.

"I did know he would do really well but it still made me nervous.

"Because he was so confident it made me feel good.

"He had no distractions, he trained really well and the fact he was so confident made me a bit stronger."

The pair married in May 2013 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City, followed by a celebration at EventCity, near the Trafford Centre, attended by 4,000 guests, and their daughter Lamaisah was born in May last year.

Faryal said: "I've been here for a year and a half now.

"Obviously Bolton is very different from where I'm from.

"I'm more of a city girl. I was born in Brooklyn and, even though I live in Staten Island, the city is right there — there's more to do.

"I'm trying to settle down.

"The hardest thing is to not have your friends and family.

"Motherhood is great but it can get difficult too — it's just me and my daughter really.

"When I'm back home, I have my mother and my cousins helping me out.

"But because there's not much to do in Bolton, I'm glad I've got my daughter.

"It's brought me and Amir closer together."

Since winning silver at the 2004 Olympics, Amir has become Britain's highest-profile boxer and Faryal has also found herself in the spotlight.

A regular user of social media, including Twitter and Instagram, where she posts photographs of her jet-set lifestyle, she has a legion of fans — but also "haters" who regularly write abuse to the mother-of-one.

She said: "I didn't even know I was that big to get so much hate.

"But there are so many people that defend me and give me so much love."

As well as vitriol from online trolls, she regularly finds her relationship under scrutiny in the tabloid press with allegations of her husband's infidelities.

But she shrugs off the stories and says she and Amir both trust each other.

She said: "I think a wife knows her husband more than anyone.

"She lives with him and she spends the whole day with him.

"I know Amir like a book.

"The stories are so pathetic.

"I don't even bother to read or care.

"For some reason they always seem to come out when I'm over in the US."

Last month, Amir travelled to Pakistan to visit the school where 148 pupils and staff died in a terrorist attack at the hands of the Taliban.

Faryal's respect for her husband grew thanks to the visit, which she said was brave due to his high profile and meant a lot to the people affected by the atrocity.

She said: "Amir is such a good man and he's done so much for his country.

"He is a very strong man. For such a big guy with such a big name to go there — it's not safe for a normal person.

"Even they don't go where he went because it's very dangerous."

Looking to the future and Faryal says the couple would like more children, brothers and sisters for seven-month-old Lamaisah who she says is "a very good baby" who sleeps all night.

She added: "I know he really wants a boy, I guess because he's a boxer and in our culture I think people want a boy.

"I always wanted a girl because I never had a sister.

"I do want to have a lot of kids, I want four or five.

"I guess hopefully we will try for a second baby eventually.

"After we had her, he was like: 'I wouldn't replace her for anything'.

"She is always with me the entire day and her dad — because he is so busy — will come home and she will just leave me and go straight to him."

Faryal was studying political science and journalism at Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences in New Jersey and had ambitions to go to law school when she met her husband-to-be.

Having left education to concentrate on family life, she now plans to launch her own YouTube channel, covering fashion, make-up and aspects of her personal life with Amir and Lamaisah, as well as a make-up line.

She said: "Because I have a big fanbase, I have a following of Asian girls; I want to do something for them."