By William Mackay: After watching lightweight Prescott (21-0, 18 KO’s) struggle tonight against journeyman Humberto Toledo, I now wonder whether most people have way overrated Prescott’s power. He looked like an average puncher tonight, nothing like the so-called knockout artist that was seen knocking Amir Khan out in the first round in September 2008.
Toledo had no problems taking the shots from Prescott tonight even with Prescott putting everything he had into the shots. Instead of a big knockout artist, I saw a rail thin fighter that resembled a praying mantis throwing wide hooks with little speed and seemingly little power.
Toledo took Prescott’s shots as if it was nothing and fired back. Prescott eventually tired out and began to hold way too much and looked like he was begging to be taken out by Toledo. Unfortunately for Toledo, he had no power in which to take Prescott out with.
In looking back at the Khan-Prescott fight, I don’t think that it was a case of Khan having a weak chin, but rather that he walked into a hard jab early on and wasn’t expecting the shot so early in the fight. In other words, Khan got caught cold in the first round and it was a fluke thing rather than a case of his chin being bad. The hooks that Khan wasn’t nailed with after that weren’t all that hard either, but looked it because it had the effect of knocking Khan down.
However, as hurt as Khan was after getting hit by that unexpected jab, he would have been knocked down by almost anything, maybe even another jab from Prescott.
Whatever the case, I think either Khan has a terrible chin and just can’t take a short or else he was caught by a rare punch that he wasn’t ready for and was unable to recover. Once he was hit and hurt with the initial jab from Prescott, it was inevitable that Khan would be knocked out. If he had been hit late in the round, then he might have been able to escape the round without going down. However, it occurred in the opening seconds of the round giving him little chance to recover.
Unlike a lot of people, I think Khan can take a pretty good shot without going down and isn’t the glass chinned fighter that people say he is. He was just hit at the wrong point and the wrong place, and the rest was history.
I really think he’d have an excellent chance of not only beating Prescott in a rematch, but also taking all of Prescott’s so called heavy shots. Believe me, the fighter that I saw tonight was not a knockout artist. Prescott is totally overrated in terms of power and he’s not all that people say he is.
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