NEW double champion Tasif Khan is in boxing dream land – so much so that he slept with the belts.

Four days after winning the vacant WBU and GBU versions of the super flyweight world title in front of a packed out home crowd at the Cedar Court Hotel, Khan admits it Is still sinking in.

The Girlington fighter woke up Sunday morning to find both belts next to him on the bed. He had no intention of letting them out of his clutches.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” said Khan, who destroyed Ghanaian opponent Isaac Quaye inside six rounds. “It’s something I’m finding hard to put into words.

“I was willing to travel anywhere to fight for a world title, I’d have even gone to Ghana if I needed to. But being able to do this in Bradford in front of all my fans and family just added to the whole occasion.

“It was probably one of the best days of my life.”

Khan was accompanied to the ring by the Yorkshire Regiment but admitted their drums were drowned out by the roar from his supporters.

“It was so loud – as if they were all in the ring with me,” he added. “There’s a saying that the crowd can be the 12th man on a football pitch but this was like the whole place was in my corner.

“The hairs on the back of my neck up and the noise gave me goose bumps. I’ve been lucky enough to fight on some big shows but nothing compares to that feeling.

“To win a world title and to do it in Bradford – you cannot top that.”

Khan had waited a long time to finally face down the more-experienced Quaye. The fight have previously been postponed twice.

So there was plenty of pent-up energy in the 33-year-old’s performance – which he signed off with a left hook that sent the African sprawling.

Khan said: “We’d have three back-to-back training camps so both of us had got to the point where we just couldn’t wait for it to happen

“One camp can take it out of you, preparing for eight or nine weeks, and you’d have one and then the next day you’d start again.

“But everything worked out for the best in the end and it was great to get the fight in Bradford.

“I had been getting a bit of stick from him over Twitter in the last few weeks, saying how he was going to knock me out.

“But it was good for me because he came to have a go and that left him open. I felt very, very strong and sharp.”

Khan dedicated the victory to local amateur boxing stalwart Alec Allan, his former coach at Bradford Police Boys club who died in 2012.

“I started boxing at the age of ten and he was a father figure to me and so many others.

“Eighty per cent of the people in that crowd were familiar with Mr Allan to some point.”