By Mark Vester

Oliver Harrison, the man who trained Amir Khan from his pro-debut until his seventeenth fight, has lashed out at Khan's new trainer Jorge Rubio. Harrison was unexpectedly fired a few months ago. Khan's unbeaten streaked was crushed last Saturday in Manchester when he was knocked out by Colombian Breidis Prescott in 54-seconds of the first-round. He called Rubio a "a Cuban amateur" and advised his former fighter to hirs Naseem Hamed's former trainer Brendan Ingle.

"I can't believe how Amir fought," said Harrison to The Guardian. "It was absolutely the wrong way to fight somebody who can bang. I can't believe they learned him to keep his hands up and just stand in front of a fighter like that. He tries to be macho but that's not Amir. He naturally has his hands low and slips and slides like Tommy Hearns. The Amir I know would have his guard in front of his face and slip and slide to avoid the punches. But the Cuban guy had him with his hands up just walking forward. Madness. Any half-decent fighter could have hit him."

Harrison told the paper that he was shocked when Team Khan fired him and then hired Rubio a few months later. He expected them to hire a big name trainer like a Floyd Mayweather Sr. or a Buddy McGirt.

"Team Khan are amateurs. I was the only pro there and I was fighting an uphill battle. So when I saw him knocked out I was happy but sad. Happy because of what they have said about me but sad because I could have taken him to the top," Harrison said.

"If they had gone out and hired Floyd Mayweather or Buddy McGirt I might have felt a little better. But I think they brought in the cheapest person. And what does he do? He has Amir holding his hand up high like a German. Amir is a slick boxer, he could have boxed that guy's head off. Against a puncher, to fight like that ... I don't think so."

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