By Sean McDaniel: Sometimes all it takes is one punch and a fighter is for all practical purposes washed up for good. In the case of previously unbeaten Amir Khan, I think he may be already at that stage of his career when it’s time to consider retiring for good. What’s sad, at least to me, is that all it took was a hard jab from his powerful Colombian opponent Breidis Prescott (20-0, 18 KOs), who staggered Khan in the opening seconds of the bout. To say that Khan was being more than a little thick headed by mixing it up with Prescott in the opening seconds is being too kind to him.
No one in their right mind would even consider going right after a fighter with as much as Prescott. Regardless of how limited Prescott is as a fighter, his power is very much real indeed, and anyone with two eyes could see that for themselves by taking a glance of his last fight with Cuban amateur star Richard Abril. The knockout loss for Khan was merely a byproduct of him going out there and trying to tangle with someone that he needed to be handling with kid’s gloves. Prescott is a fighter you need to stay away from, not try to engage and slug with. Of course, there’s fighters that probably could do this, like Nate Campbell or Juan Diaz, but then again they’re clearly a class or two above Khan in terms of chin and overall boxing skills.