By Scott Gilfoid: I hate to say this but I think World Boxing Association light welterweight champion Amir Khan and lightweight Kevin Mitchell are both going to be destroyed tomorrow night at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, Tyne and Wear. Khan, shaky chin and all, will be facing unbeaten Dmitriy Salita, while Mitchell was be going up against Khan conqueror Breidis Prescott (21-1, 18 KO’s). The speed will be on the side of the Brits, there’s no question. But the power is on the side of the visiting Prescott and Salita.

Khan seems to be a decent fighter when facing opposition with zero power, but when put in with a hard puncher with ability, I guess we saw what happens to Khan when he was humiliated by Prescott in a 1st round knockout last year. It was fairly brutal. Khan rushed out trying to land big hooks and was hurt by a left hook from Prescott and subsequently put down. One knockdown later and the fight was stopped because Khan could barely stand after the second knockdown in the round.

We’re heard about how Khan is a different fighter all that kind of happy blather, but we haven’t seen Khan put in with a slugger like Prescott since then. Salita is the biggest puncher that Khan has faced since that fateful night last year in September. Salita isn’t fast, but he has a great left hook. When Salita eventually lands it, Khan will go to sleep, mark my words.

Khan doesn’t have the chin to take Salita’s left hook. It won’t matter that Salita is slow, because when he lands it, Khan will fold like a deck of cards. All Khan’s dreams of being a big star in the U.S will go down the drain on Saturday. But that’s what happens when you take a fighter with a weak chin and put them in with a puncher. And that’s what Salita is. He’s a puncher.

Prediction: Salita by brutal 6th round knockout.

Kevin Mitchell, likewise, is walking into an almost certain beating in his fight with the much bigger and stronger Prescott. This fight won’t even be close. Mitchell, 25, has faced mostly local fighters in building up his gaudy 29-0 record. I see little substance at all in there. In the fights that I’ve seen of Mitchell, I have totally been unimpressed. He looks like a limited European fighter as far as I can tell.

No way do I see Mitchell as a 1st tier fighter. This is going to be a slaughter. Mitchell doesn’t have the height, defense or the power to fight competitively with the hard hitting Prescott. The thing of it is, Mitchell doesn’t have the versatility to keep alive for long against a big puncher like Prescott. Mitchell will do what he always does by bum rushing Prescott in the 1st round and immediately run into trouble when Prescott lands his big hooks.

I want this fight to at least go six rounds so that I can get some entertainment but I can’t see it lasting more than one to two rounds at best. Mitchell will rush out there with his primitive caveman style of fighting and Prescott will tee off on Mitchell’s head like it was a big pumpkin on a fence. It’s going to be batting practice for Prescott. Mitchell is going to look like a schoolboy the way that Prescott pummels him around the ring and has him up and down on the canvas.

Prediction: Prescott by 2nd round knockout.