Warren accepts responsibility

Warren: Responsibility

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Sports Network UK promoter Frank Warren took ultimate responsibility for allowing Amir Khan to take on Breidis Prescott on Saturday night.

The Colombian had an unbeaten record of 19 wins with 17 by knockout, a dangerous record for a fighter as inexperienced as Khan.

But while Warren revealed the name of Prescott was originally suggested to him by Khan's new Cuban trainer Jorge Rubio, it was the veteran promoter who gave the all-clear for his charge to take the step up in class.

"Derek Gainer was the original choice (to fight Khan) and then he decided he didn't want to fight," Warren said. "We scouted around for an opponent and Jorge came up with the name Prescott. We discussed it and that's who we decided to go with.

"At the end of the day, whoever Amir fights the buck stops with me. When he's winning I'm a great matchmaker and promoter and when he loses I have to take the responsibility.

"At the end of the day the choice of opponent is down to me. He got caught cold, if the fight had gone on a few rounds who knows what would have happened but he just never got into it from the start.

"Let's take nothing away from Prescott - he doesn't look a bad fighter, does he?"

Warren is keen to get Khan back in the ring sooner rather than later and is likely to fight on the undercard of Nicky Cook's first defence of the WBO super-featherwight title on December 6.

"We'll go back to the drawing board and think about the future," he continued. "He'll probably fight on the same show (as Cook).

"We've got a lot to talk about, he's been training hard so we'll give him a week or so off and then we'll all get together later in the week and work out what we're going to do."