By Scott Gilfoid: Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) is heading towards a bad beating on September 10th against Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) in a WBA light-welterweight title eliminator bout at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland. McCloskey has the home town advantage, and that sometimes can mean at least a better than average chance of winning a home town decision.

But in McCloskey’s case, he won’t be around to win by any mixed up scoring for this fight, because Prescott is going to bring his own judges to the fight in the form of his two powerful fists. He’s going to knock McCloskey out and show Amir Khan how it’s done. Khan recently fought McCloskey, and looked horrible in flailing around missing all night long. Khan looked like an amateur fighter that was pulled from the crowd and blindfolded. It was poor boxing from Khan, and a terrible offensive display from McCloskey.

“It’s a fight which is going to make people stand up and take notice of Pail McCloskey,” McCloskey said to Sky Sports News. Oh, I’m sure that boxing fans will notice of McCloskey in this fight, but only because of how bad he’s going to get knocked out. I know McCloskey is using Prescott to try and look good against a fighter that knocked Khan out in one round three years, but McCloskey picked the wrong fighter to do that against. Instead of Prescott, McCloskey needed to fight someone more harmless like Paulie Malignaggi.

I don’t even think McCloskey could win that fight, although I’d give him a decent chance if he would try to throw some punches for a change. I think McCloskey is more of a defensive guy that just tries to make people miss and isn’t capable of doing both offense and defense. It won’t work regardless against Prescott, because he’ll catch up to McCloskey sooner or later and knock him out cold. If McCloskey comes at Prescott and actually tires to throw some punches, it’s going to make Prescott’s job so much easier.