By Peter Wells: Last night Kevin Mitchell rose up from Super Featherweight to take on the man who only last year, knocked out Amir Khan in under a minute. Breidis Prescott was beaten last night for sure, but it was far from an easy ride for Kevin. In this fight I was expecting Mitchell to be knocked out inside 6 rounds. But I was wrong, and have no problem admitting it, Kevin proved he wasn’t fazed by Prescott’s power and kept in there with a natural Lightweight. I don’t see why anyone can say he didn’t win this fight, because he clearly did, and Scott, you just have to live with it, it’s called life, you went ecstatic when Ward beat Kessler, when he clearly was using his head in their, so let it be.

Kevin kept on the back foot, in the first looked more lively with his punches and countering most of Prescott’s attacks, then in the second he wasn’t throwing enough back, and was looking very poor as Breidis looked in full control. In the next round, Prescott got through a few times to the body, and momentarily shook Mitchell. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to watch the rest of the fight off you tube, due to a copyright claim by Frank Warren. So the rest of the fight is written from looking at a review from BBC Sport. In the fourth Mitchell made Prescott miss many times and started to get his range and was landing some decent shots, the left hook was becoming an unmissable shot for Kevin in the fifth and cut Prescott under his left eye from an accidental head butt. The sixth was more or less the same, and in the seventh Mitchell was easily avoiding the right hand, and landing his own sly left hooks. The eight was very even until the end where Kevin was able to land a very nice combination which captured him the round. Mitchell was running away now being clearly in front and Breidis was really struggling to catch the fleeing challenger. Mitchell ended the fight well putting in well timed counters, and keeping out the way of Prescott as he tried desperately to get a knockout which never came.

The final scores were 119-110, 118-111 and 117-111; I gave Prescott round 2 and 3 only and the 11th round even, to give Mitchell a clear 118-111 victory. I’m sorry for not giving a more detailed review but Frank Warren ruined that, so thanks for reading, and well done Kevin Mitchell.