By Scott Gilfoid: If I was Amir Khan I’d make sure I’m traveling on September 10th, because his former conqueror Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) is going to be battling Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) in a WBA light welterweight title eliminator bout at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

I expect Prescott to totally destroy McCloskey in three or four rounds at best. Prescott is going to be the new star in the light welterweight division, and it’s a good thing that Khan is about to bail for the welterweight division. I love the timing. It reminds me a lot of how David Haye skedaddled away from the cruiserweight division when Marco Huck and Tomasz Adamek were starting to make names for themselves. Prescott obliterated Khan in one round in 2008, and Khan has wanted no part of him since.

You got to like McCloskey. He’s a basic fighter with no hand speed or power, but he’s good at making fighters miss. But he has no chance against Prescott, because he’s going to be speared with jabs all night long and blasted with hooks to the head. McCloskey is going to try dodge everything that Prescott throws in this fight, and it’s hopeless. He can’t do it, and he certainly won’t be able to get away from Prescott’s powerful jabs.

I expect McCloskey to make Prescott miss with a fair amount of his shots, but he knows what McCloskey’s about after watching his pathetic performance against Khan where McCloskey did little but try to dodge shots all night long. The way you beat a defensive fighter McCloskey is to jab them in the head or body, and that’s exactly what Prescott is going to do.

It’s going to be a brutal beating of the first order. I just hope the Irish fans take it in stride and don’t lost it and start showering the ring with trash when their fighter loses.