By William Mackay: In hindsight, WBA light welterweight champion Amir Khan and his promoters at Golden Boy Promotions may have made a big mistake by deciding to fight the obscure little known Irish Paul McCloskey on April 16th rather than a better known fighter like Breidis Prescott, Michael Katsidis or a well known local fighter like John Murray. This could end up hurting Khan and Golden Boy in terms of unsold tickets for the venue of the fight at the M.E.N Arena, in Manchester, England.

A reported 12,000 tickets have been sold for the bout but there are still 6,000 remaining tickets that need to be purchased before next month. You figure that the most of the fans that are planning to attend this fight already bout the tickets and there likely won’t be too many more tickets sold from here until the fight next month. This doesn’t look for Khan and I think it’s the choice of opponent that’s going to hurt Khan in this fight.

British fans wanted to see Khan fight Prescott in a rematch so that Khan could try and at least attempt to avenge his 1st round knockout defeat. Instead, Khan made a a couple of excuses about Prescott not being on his radar because he hasn’t done much since he last fought him and also saying that Prescott isn’t really serious wanting to fight him. Even if Prescott hasn’t done much since his win over khan, he still has the win over Khan and boxing fans know him much more than McCloskey. I think had they picked Prescott, all 19,000 tickets would have been sold a long time ago. This is what happens when you opt for the easy route instead of tacking tougher fights.