Amir Khan has had stars in his eyes since the day he turned professional – but they were not the ones that flooded his semi-consciousness as he lay flat-backed in a Manchester ring two months ago after colliding with the iron fists of a hungry Colombian called Breidis Prescott.
Tomorrow night he seeks to put the Khan show back on the road and anticipates a clear-cut victory over a 34-year-old Irishman, Oisin Fagan, as the first stage of that rebuilding process.
Yesterday they met, and it was smiles and clich?s all round as Khan said he yearned for a rematch with Prescott and Fagan, unfancied, unheard of but unfazed, dutifully promised an upset.
Khan said: “This is the worst time to be fighting Amir Khan. I feel so strong, so sharp.”
Fagan, not content to be a mere dancing partner, said: “Obviously he is more skillful than me. Obviously he is the favorite. But I have a chance, a good one. I know what I have to do and it’s fairly simple: knock him out.”
