By Scott Gilfoid: Without power, Paul McCloskey (22-1, 12 KO’s) is going to be like a little rowboat on a rough sea when he takes on the powerful brute of a puncher Breidis Prescott (24-2, 19 KO’s) on September 10th in a WBA light welterweight title eliminator bout at the Odyssey Arena, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Prescott is the hardest puncher in the light welterweight division, period. He’s the best in that department, as we saw in his 1st round knockout win over Amir Khan in 2008. Prescott was so powerful in that fight, Khan hasn’t wanted anything to do with him since then.

Prescott has gotten even better since then, and is now a masterful fighter reminding me of some of the really excellent fighters from the past like Alexis Arguello (77-8, 62 KO’s), but with better movement. What I like about the Prescott-McCloskey fight is that Prescott still has doubters at this time in the boxing world because of his past losses to Kevin Mitchell and Miguel Vazquez. But on September 10th, he’s going to shut some people up and open some eyes by brutally destroying McCloskey in a one-sided fight.

By making quick work of McCloskey, Prescott will show the difference between him and Khan. It took Khan six rounds to beat McCloskey last April, and even then the fight was stopped because of a head butt and not because Khan had ever hurt the Irish fighter. He actually never hurt McCloskey, and rarely laid a glove on him because of Khan’s bad habit of throwing wild flurries without aiming his shots.

Against a fighter that’s thinking defense 100% of the time like McCloskey, you have to be a powerful sharp shooter like Prescott. You can’t beat him by machine gunning him with punches flying in every direction the way that Khan was trying to beat him. All that did was make Khan look stupid, clumsy and cause him tire out to the point where he gasping for breath by the 6th.

No, you have to time him and blast him with everything you got the way that Prescott will be doing against the weak-punching McCloskey. This is a going to be a massacre plain and simple. McCloskey is just too weak and is facing what could be the best fighter in the light welterweight division right now. That’s the straight scoop. Forget about Khan, that’s marketing. Prescott is the real guy at light welterweight, and he’s going to prove it in this fight.