{"id":9798,"date":"2009-11-17T11:28:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T11:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/prescott-eyes-khan-re-match\/"},"modified":"2009-11-17T11:28:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T11:28:34","slug":"prescott-eyes-khan-re-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/17\/prescott-eyes-khan-re-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescott eyes Khan re-match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Columbian wants to challenge for WBA light-welterweight belt<\/h3>\n<div><strong>BREIDIS Prescott is eyeing a re-match with Amir Khan.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Columbian famously floored Khan within the opening minute of their clash in Manchester last year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The defeat is Khan\u2019s only blemish in an almost flawless career to date which has seen him triumph over Marco Antonio Barerra and land the WBA light-welterweight belt. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Since that fight Prescott has struggled to make much of an impact, winning and losing in his two fights since. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>But that hasn\u2019t stopped the Columbian angling for another go at Khan.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Prescott will meet British boxer Kevin Mitchell in Newcastle on December 5 and is hoping a win would set up a re-match with Khan. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I feel like I&#8217;m coming to the UK to prove myself all over again,&#8221; Prescott said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;But England holds so many happy memories for me that I am pleased to be coming back. It&#8217;s obviously where I got the biggest win of my career.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I am looking forward to the Mitchell fight because if I win then I can get a world title chance at lightweight or try and force Khan into a rematch at light-welter,\u201d he added. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbian wants to challenge for WBA light-welterweight belt BREIDIS Prescott is eyeing a re-match with Amir Khan. &#13; The Columbian famously floored Khan within the opening minute of their clash in Manchester last year. &#13; The defeat is Khan\u2019s only blemish in an almost flawless career to date which has seen him triumph over Marco [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}