Glenn McCrory is looking forward to Amir Khan showing us his true potential on Sky Box Office.
Undefeated Prescott the perfect foe for Britain's brightest star
Amir Khan is the most exciting name in British boxing, the hottest name in British boxing - and he's the future of British boxing.
It's great his coming to
Sky as well, because he is the up-and-coming superstar. We have, in truth, seen the best of Joe Calzaghe and Ricky Hatton, and Amir is the one ready to take over their mantle.
He is the one all the kids look up to and you cannot under-estimate his impact on the future of British boxing.
I have a fair few Asian kids who come to my gym and I can see what an inspiration he is to them. They are all so dedicated, hungry and determined to do well. It is a real breath of fresh air and you can see Amir's professionalism and approach rubbing of them.
He is clearly hungry himself. He wants to do well. And I am sure he will.
It will be interesting to see what impact his new trainer Jorge Rubio has. I've got to be honest and say I had half expected him to sign up with a big name trainer from the States. And I've got to be honest and say I had never heard of Rubio! Neither had the Cuban coaches at my gym.
But from what I have read and heard, he is doing the right thing with Khan. He does need to keep his hands up and above all he needs to slow down a bit, in the ring. He is young and wants to do well, but starting against Bleidis Prescott, I would like to see him taking his time a little more.
Of course that will come with experience, but given he has such ridiculously fast hands, Amir doesn't have to rush in. That's when he gets caught and put on his backside.
Those knockdowns against Willie Limond and Michael Gomez also show that he has got bottle, though. He also has great punching power and since Athens, really has been a revelation.
Danger
But he is not ready for a world title yet. Everybody, Amir included, was clamouring for a world-title fight with someone like Joan Guzman, but it is still too early. I don't think fighting Kevin Kelley or Derrick Gainer would have done him much good either.
I'll admit I know nothing about this Breidis Prescott, but I like the look of this fight. He has a similar record to Khan, and because he is unbeaten, has credibility. And an unbeaten fighter always poses a certain amount of danger. With Kelley and Gainer, we all know their limitations and of course their 'experience' - which is the nice way of putting it!
Prescott is just the sort of fight Amir needs. The British public kind of new what to expect from Michael Gomez as well but now, all of a sudden, no-one knows what we are going to get.
The biggest danger though is that Amir starts to believe his own hype. He seems like a down-to-earth kid but I hope he doesn't start to think he's a superstar just yet. It will be up to the people around him to keep their wits about them and his feet on the ground.
And it will be up to Rubio to iron out those little mistakes we have seen, because the further up he goes, the more they might end up costing him.
But what I really like about Amir Khan is that for all we have seen of him, we don't know what he is capable of yet. He needs some tougher challenges to bring the best out of him and for all we know he might have come this far with bags left in reserve.
I am sure these next few fights on
Sky will tell us just how good he is going to be...
