Khan ready to step right up

Khan: stepping up

It's going to be explosive and it's going to be exciting. All I will say to the fans is don't blink because you don't know when a knockout is going to come - and I don't want them to miss it.

Amir Khan
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Amir Khan admits Breidis Prescott is a big step up - but one he needs to make.

The Commonwealth lightweight champion goes into the unknown on Sky Box Office this Saturday when he takes on the hard-hitting Colombian.

Khan, who has won all 18 professional fights, admits Prescott - himself undefeated - will pose the biggest threat he has faced, but is convinced he can beat him and move on to bigger and better things.

"It's going to be another step up - another big step up," he told Sky Sports.

"He's going to be strong, he's going to be coming forward, he doesn't want to lose his undefeated record, he doesn't want a loss in his career.

"It's going to be a big fight, but I know I'm going to go in there and win the fight. With the skills I've got, the hand speed I've got and the power I've got, I know I am going to win the fight.

"I've always had that ambition to be a world champion and a person who's a great fighter and fought the best - and a credit to boxing.

"That's what I want to be known as when I hang the gloves up. I want to be known as a great fighter, one of the best fighters who ever put the gloves on."

Khan has scoffed at suggestions his famed punching power is diminishing as he moves up in class, a suggestion that is backed up by devastating KOs of Graham Earl, Martin Kristjansen and Michael Gomez in his last four fights.

And although he has promised to be a little more circumspect having been dropped by Gomez last time out, the 21-year-old Olympic silver medallist is still adamant Sky Box Office viewers are in for another early finish.

"I am going to use my brain, work off the jab, work in and out and work the speed," he said. "I'm going to put in some big power shots to slow him down a bit and then put the pressure on him.

"It's going to be explosive and it's going to be exciting. All I will say to the fans is don't blink because you don't know when a knockout is going to come - and I don't want them to miss it."