Prescott decisions Figueroa; Barthelemy defeats Rodriguez

By Boxing News - 08/18/2012 - Comments

By Jim Dower: Colombian Breidis Prescott (26-4, 18 KO’s) defeated Francisco Figueroa (20-5-1, 13 KO’s) by an eight round unanimous decision on Saturday night at the Doubletree Miamimart Hotel, in Miami, Florida. The final judges’ scores were 79-71, 77-73 and 78-71, all for Prescott.

Despite being the bigger puncher, Prescott was knocked down in the 5th round by Figueroa. However, that was about all Figueroa could do, as Prescott was able to use a powerful jab and scorching combinations to get the better of Figueroa. In the last two rounds, Prescott looked to be tiring as Figueroa took the fight to him. Luckily for Prescott that the fight was only eight rounds and not 12, because he might have run completely out of gas again like he did in his two losses to Paul McCloskey and Mike Alvarado recently.

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Unbeaten super featherweight Rances “Kid Blast” Barthelemy (17-0, 11 KO’s) defeated Alejandro Rodriguez (14-7, 7 KO’s) by and 8 round unanimous decision. The final judges’ scores were 80-71, 80-71 and 80-71.

Barthelemy’s combination of power and boxing skills had the overmatched Rodriguez near helpless in the fight despite trying hard.

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Unbeaten middleweight Roberto Acevedo (6-0, 4 KO’s) beat Donald Clark (2-3, 1 KO’s) by six round unanimous decision. The final judges scores were 60-54, 59-55 and 59-55. Acevedo was able to land at will with his huge power shots to keep Clark under a constant rain of fire. However, Acevedo was unable to get a stoppage, perhaps do to the fight being only six rounds.

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Unbeaten super bantamweight prospect Hairon Socarras (5-0-1, 4 KO’s) defeated DeWayne Wisdom (2-6, 1 KO’s) by a round unanimous decision. the judges’ scores were 39-37, 40-36 and 40-36.

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Light heavyweight Radivoje Kaladzic (7-0, 5 KO’s) got past Jerrod Caldwell (2-1-1, 1 KO’s), beating him by a 1st round knockout after taking him out with a series of huge power shots.



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