Prescott Defeats Toledo on Disqualification

By Boxing News - 02/21/2009 - Comments

By Sam Gregory: In tonight’s scheduled 10 round lightweight main event, 25 year old undefeated Columbian Breidis Prescott won the fight on a disqualification when his opponent Humberto Toledo bit him on the neck stopping the bout at 1:58 of the tenth round.

From the opening bell, 20-0 Prescott was in total control of the fight landing the more solid cleaner punches. Toledo, who came into the fight 34-5, did appear to be game as he tested Prescott’s chin with a couple good punches that came too few and too late in the fight.

By the middle rounds of the fight Toledo was switching back and forth to the southpaw stance trying anything he could to gain an advantage. The taller Prescott continued to land his rangier punches having the longer arm reach. There was also evidence of a clash of heads in the middle rounds with a cut on Prescott’s head.

In the seventh round Toledo was given a standing eight count when he used the ropes to hold himself up after an exchange of punches with Prescott.

Toledo was warned a couple times for holding and hitting behind the head; finally in the eighth round he had a point deducted.

Frustration grew and by the tenth and final round it was obvious Toledo was losing the fight. In an act of desperation Humberto Toledo bit his opponent Breidis Prescott on the neck just above the left shoulder. Time was called and the fight ended at 1:58 of the tenth round declaring Prescott the winner by disqualification.