By William Mackay: With WBC/WBO light welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (27-0, 11 KO’s) totally uninterested in facing WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan (25-1, 17 KO’s) for the $1.3 million that has been offered to him for the fight, former Khan conqueror Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) says that he’s willing to step in for Bradley to take on Khan in a rematch.

For boxing fans that have a poor memory of the details of their last fight, the Colombian Prescott had no problems beating Khan in a 1st round knockout win in 2008. Prescott put Khan down twice in the fight before the bout was halted. Prescott was overpowering in that fight, staggering Khan with his powerful jab and then dropping him with a left hook. Khan simply didn’t have the chin to take Prescott’s power shots on that night.

Since then, Prescott was beaten by Miguel Vazquez and Kevin Mitchell in back to back fights in 2009, but has since turned his game around by altering his fighting style and has won his last three fights. Prescott is using his jab more and moving more than he did in the past. He still goes after his opponents like before but is fighting more like a boxer/slugger rather than just a pure slugger like in the past.

A fight between Khan and Prescott would be huge, a fight that U.S boxing fans as well as fans from the UK would be very interested in seeing. However, Khan has shown little interest in trying to avenge the defeat to Prescott and pretty much showed that he had no stomach for another fight with Prescott by choosing the little known Paul McCloskey to fight in his last bout in April. Had Knan opted to fight Prescott, the fight almost surely would have been a Sky pay-per-view bout instead of winding up on Primetime after Sky rejected showing the Khan vs. McCloskey bout.

Prescott looked sensational in beating Bayan Jargal in his last fight on April 22nd, winning by a lopsided 10 round decision. Prescott looked very powerful in that fight and was throwing with huge power until the very end. Jargal took an enormous amount of punishment in that fight. Prescott looked a lot more powerful and quicker than Marcos Maidana, a fighter who Khan recently beat but took a lot of punishment from in their fight last year. It’s hard seeing Khan making it beyond the second or 3rd round in a rematch with Prescott, because he was nailing Jargal with the same kinds of shots that Maidana hurt Khan with in the 10th. Khan would get hit a lot in a rematch with Prescott with some monstrous shots whether Khan elected to run and hold or not.

Khan likely won’t attempt to avenge his defeat to Prescott despite the fan interest being there for this fight. Prescott hits too hard, has too much speed and size for Khan to want to risk getting blasted out again. Look for Khan to take a nice safe fight against an aging Erik Morales instead. Morales doesn’t punch all that hard at light welterweight and is fighting a couple divisions over his former weight class of super featherweight.