Dubliner Oisin Fagan will provide the opposition for Amir Khan in December as the British fighter looks to rebuild his career after being knocked out in under a minute by Breidis Prescott last month. Fagan is 34 and based in America. He boasts a record of 22 wins from 27 fights and insists he 'gives everbody a good go', with Olympic silver medalist Khan next up at London's ExCeL on December 6th.
With 13 of his wins coming by knockout, he admits hs is not the biggest puncher but says Khan will be worried about his chin after he was floored so dramatically by Prescott.
"If I'd just got knocked out in the fashion that Amir did, that would be all I could think about," he told Setanta Sports News. "He must have nightmares about that every second of the day.
"I'm thinking that anytime he gets a good dig on that chin he has to be thinking about that knockout.
"I'm not a power puncher but I give everybody a good go. I've fought world champions and I've been unlucky not to end up with a win."
Fagan has campaigned at lightweight and light-welterweight, winning the Irish title in the latter division in June 2006.
Troubled former IBF world champion Paul Spadafora is the biggest name on Fagan's record, a fight he lost by split decision.
Fighting out of Oklahoma City, the Dubliner has been stopped just once in 2003 and should provide rugged opposition for Khan.
Khan, a silver winner in Athens in 2004, was beaten in 54 seconds Prescott and now faces a difficult path to world title contention.
His record slipped to 18-1 following his demolition by the little-known Colombian puncher who was chosen as an opponent on the recommendation of the 21-year-old's then new trainer Jorge Rubio.
The blunder resulted in Rubio being sacked and Khan has since been training with Freddie Roach at the American coach's Wild Card gym in Hollywood.
But Roach's involvement in Manny Pacquiao's clash with Oscar De La Hoya in Las Vegas, also on December 6th, means Dean Powell will be in Khan's corner at the ExCeL.
Khan, the Commonwealth lightweight champion, is expected to spar against ferocious Filipino banger Pacquiao next week and will return to the UK in late November.