By William Mackay: The Amir Khan (26-3, 18 KO’s) vs. Carlos Molina (17-0, 7 KO’s) fight is now officially set for December 15th on Showtime and will be taking place at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, in California, according to RingTV. The fight will also be televised on Sky Sports 1HD in the UK.

Besides the Khan-Molina fight there’s a possibility that unbeaten former U.S. 2008 Olympic heavyweight prospect Deontay Wilder (25-0, 25 KO’s) could be on the undercard. Golden Boy Promotions are looking for an opponent to put with the 6’7″ Wilder and they’re reportedly looking for a quality name to put him in with. Let’s hope so because the Molina-Khan card REALLY needs some help with Khan vs. Molina being the main event.

It’s not usual to have a main event where the only semi-recognizable name [Khan] has lost his last two fights, one of them being by a crushing knockout. The other odd thing is his opponent Molina, 26, isn’t even a light welterweight and has picked from the lightweight division specifically for Khan. Molina doesn’t have power, and has never faced a top tier opponent before. So in other words, Showtime is televising a card with a pitiful main event and there’s a possibility that the co-main event will be just as bad unless they can find someone good. One would hope that Wilder doesn’t end up as the co-main event. I wouldn’t seeing him fight in this position if Golden Boy would break from their habit of matching Wilder against weak 3rd tier opposition and finally put him in with at least a decent B level guy instead of all these poor, and over-matched fighters.

I’m not sure why Showtime agreed to televise the Khan-Molina fight, but I guess it’s a gamble on their part that if they show this fight Khan could possibly work out for him if he can stop losing over and over again. Khan has a new trainer in Virgil Hunter and there’s a lot of hopes that he can work his magic on Khan like he did in making Andre Ward a world champion. I wouldn’t bet on it happening. Showtime might be better off looking in another direction unless they’re okay with seeing Khan fight a bunch of light hitting fighters for the next year or so while he’s maneuvered around the dangerous opposition at light welterweight.