Amir Khan has insisted he will stay with new trainer Jorge Rubio despite his humiliating first-round defeat to Breidis Prescott.

Khan suffered the first loss of his career after being knocked out after just 54 seconds in Manchester last night.

Cuban Rubio suggested Khan should fight big-hitting Colombian Prescott.

Khan, who hired Rubio to replace Oliver Harrison earlier this year, insisted it was not a mismatch.

"Training went really well but I happened to get caught with a shot by a power puncher," the 21-year-old said.

"I'm not going to let it get to me. Every fighter wins and loses in their career and I'm just going to come back stronger. Me and Jorge will work on my mistakes."

Meanwhile, promoter Frank Warren accepted some of the blame for choosing Prescott.

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

"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."

Khan will be bidding to resurrect his career when he returns to the ring on December 6th.
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