McCloskey: Prescott doesn’t have the same power he used to

By Boxing News - 08/22/2011 - Comments

By Scott Gilfoid: Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) thinks Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) isn’t the puncher that he once was when he fought at 135 pounds. McCloskey says that at 140, Prescott’s power isn’t as good. I think McCloskey has been watching some grainy youtube video of Prescott’s recent fights he looks just as powerful to me as he did before.

The only difference I can see is Prescott is boxing more and punching a lot less than he did previously. He’s using his jab and fighting smart.

McCloskey and Prescott will be mixing it up on September 10th in a WBA light welterweight title eliminator at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.

Speaking with fighthype.com, McCloskey said “Prescott does not have the same power at 140 pounds…I am going to miss a lot and counter all night. He will not be able to get to me with my speed and movement. He’s in for a very hard night.”

McCloskey’s speed? That’s laugh. Where did he get that one. McCloskey has no speed to speak of. The only thing McCloskey does is move his upper body a lot to try and make guys miss, but that’s all he can do. He’s too slow to land his own shots unless he’s facing someone as slow as him. Granted, McCloskey does well against fellow Euro level opposition but he looked positively awful against Amir Khan, and he’ll look even worse against Khan’s conqueror Prescott.

Sorry, McCloskey, but I hate to break this to you but Prescott will be landing and won’t be missing with much. He’s going to be spearing McCloskey all night long with his power jabs. McCloskey dodge all he wants, he’s going to get hit with that jab and busted up. There will be blood. I hate when referees stop fights early, but I think that’s what’s going to happen here.

McCloskey will eat a mess of Prescott’s power jabs, and get cut to ribbons. The referee will step in and march McCloskey to the ringside doctor, who will halt the massacre before it really gets out of hand. And if McCloskey tries to actually fight Prescott, well then we’ll see McCloskey knocked cold with a single right or left to the head. Prescott will pull one of those vintage Julian Jackson type knockouts where he knocks McCloskey out with a missile to the head.

But I seriously don’t think McCloskey will want any part of Prescott after he tastes some of his power early in the fight. McCloskey will convince himself that he can play defense only and just run around the ring hoping Prescott will tire. By the time McCloskey finally gets it through his head he needs to fight, it’ll be the 10th or 11th round and he’ll be way behind in the fight. At that point Prescott will knock McCloskey if he actually tries to fight.



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