FANS of boxing sensation Amir Khan will see him face his toughest fight yet - getting six young troublemakers back on the straight and narrow.

The Commonwealth lightweight champion is starring in a new three-part Channel 4 series entitled Amir Khan's Angry Young Men, to be aired on August 21.

Amir, aged 20, will try to help the six young men whose violent and anti-social behaviour is spiralling out of control.

Viewers will see Amir and his team, which includes the Rev Phil Mason, chaplain to Bolton Wanderers Football Club, pull no punches as they use the discipline required in boxing to try to turn their lives around in just four weeks.

Amir hopes that the values he has when it comes to family and faith will help him to inspire the six and give them a sense of right and wrong.

Most of the men featured on the series are in their early 20s and have passed through police, courts and anger management training with little change.

Amir, who won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in 2004 in Athens, was convinced that boxing, alongside fitness training, curbing aggression and a work ethic, could make a difference.

He said: "I want to give them discipline, I want to give them respect.

"If some make it as a boxer, that's brilliant, but if they don't, at least they'll learn something.

"They'll know when to walk away from trouble. Hopefully, they'll be 100 per cent focused and that discipline will kick in."

Mr Mason said making the programme was also life-changing for him. He admitted at first he was apprehensive about it, fearing the men would be used as "guinea pigs" but said it turned out to be "worthwhile" and "exciting".

He said: "The men felt they had been rejected and they had failed their families.

"I was there to mentor them and encourage faith values, be it Muslim or Christian, and believe in themselves.

"At first, the men were reluctant to engage in. For example we took them to help the homeless in Manchester.

"At first, they did not want to do it but some went back the following the week voluntarily without the cameras there to help out again.

"People will see what happens but it was a very positive journey and a life-changing one, especially for me. Those lads are still on the journey and I am still in touch with them. The programme also shows how Muslims and Christians can work together in an age where it is believed they can't."