Khan out to make up for first career defeat

MANCHESTER, England – After impressively beating seven-time world champion Marco Antonio Barrera in five rounds at the weekend, Amir Khan said on Monday he was out to make up for his one, spectacular defeat.

Breidis Prescott stalled Khan’s career last September with a stunning 54-second knockout and the British fighter returned to the same Manchester venue on Saturday to outbox Barrera, a veteran of 65 victories who was stopped with a deep cut above his left eye for his seventh loss.

That took Khan’s record to 20 victories against one defeat, five years after he burst onto the scene by winning an Olympic silver medal as a 17-year-old. He is now aiming to win a world title some time this year and would like to make up for that embarrassing loss to the Colombian, who is ranked in the top 10 by the WBC.

“There’s a few names on the short list. I’d love to fight Prescott again,” Khan said.

“I made a mistake in the Prescott fight and I paid for it. Since the Prescott fight so much has changed in my boxing career and I’ve moved to LA to train. I know if I fight him again I’m not going to make the same mistakes again. It will be a totally different fight.”

Although an accidental clash of heads caused the deep cut that effectively ended the fight with Barrera, Khan said he was convinced he would have knocked the former world champion out within two more rounds.    (AP)