Breidis Prescott

Breidis Prescott
Breidis Prescott
Data
Birth Name	Breidis Enrique Prescott Consuegra
Fight name	Khanqueror / Braidys
Weight class	Light welterweight
nationality	Colombian
birthday	May 3, 1983
place of birth	Barranquilla
style	Left-hand boom
size	1.80 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	47
Victories	31
Knockout victories	22nd
Defeats	16

Breidis Enrique Prescott Consuegra (born May 3, 1983 in Barranquilla ) is a Colombian professional light welterweight boxer.

Amateur career

Breidis Prescott won five Colombian championships as an amateur, most recently in 2004 light welterweight. In 2002 he took part in the light welterweight division of the 19th Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador , where he reached the quarterfinals by beating Anthony Lennox from Guyana. There he reached a draw against local hero Carlos Torres (22:22), with Torres finally being declared the winner by auxiliary points.

In 2003 he started in the light welterweight division at the 14th Pan American Games in Santo Domingo , where he again moved into the quarterfinals by beating Lucas Matthysse from Argentina. Here, too, he reached a draw against Juan de Dios Navarro from Mexico (14:14), who was then also declared the winner through auxiliary points.

In 2004 Prescott won the gold medal in the light welterweight division at the Independence Cup in Santiago de los Caballeros and tried to qualify for the Summer Olympics in Athens , but failed in the American eliminations in Tijuana and Rio de Janeiro each against the American Rock Allen .

Professional career

In July 2005 he played his first professional fight and won each of his 21 fights by February 2009, 19 of them prematurely. He was Colombian light welterweight champion, and Central American champion of the WBC light welterweight and lightweight. His defeated opponents included Jaison Palomeque (4: 0), José Agustín Feria (11: 0), Richard Abril (10: 0) and Humberto Toledo (33: 5).

He celebrated the most significant win of his career on September 6, 2008 in Manchester , when he later multiple world champion Amir Khan (18: 0) hard after only 54 seconds of the first round knockout. Struck and thus new Intercontinental champion of the WBO at lightweight has been. He was then ranked eighth in the world by Ring Magazine .

On July 17, 2009, he suffered the first defeat of his professional career in Las Vegas when he was defeated by the eventual IBF World Champion Miguel Vázquez (24: 3) from Mexico by just a few points. Vázquez, who suffered a knockdown in the first round of the bout, was seen at the end by two judges 95-94 and 96-93 in front, while the third judge scored the bout 97-92 for Prescott. Also in his next fight on December 5, 2009 in Newcastle , he had to admit defeat on points to Kevin Mitchell (29: 0).

After three consecutive build-up wins in the United States , he was allowed to compete in a World Championship title elimination match of the WBA against Paul McCloskey (22: 1) on September 10, 2011 , but lost this encounter in Belfast not undisputed on points. McCloskey also had to go down in the first round. On November 12, 2011 he boxed in Las Vegas for the IBF Latin American Championship, but lost it for the first time early in the tenth round against Mike Alvarado (31-0) from the USA. Prescott had been in the lead with all three judges by this point.

On August 18, 2012, he beat Francisco Figueroa (20: 4) unanimously on points. On March 30th, he should have fought against Chabib Allachwerdiew for the WBA and IBO world titles in Las Vegas , but Allachwerdiew injured his elbow during preparatory training. The fight date therefore had to be canceled. In March 2013 he lost on points to Terence Crawford (19-0). In July 2014 he lost to Roberto Garcia (35-3).

In March 2015 he lost just on points to Fredrick Lawson (23-0).

Others

His younger brother Daulis Prescott (* 1986) is also a professional boxer and was the WBA featherweight world championship challenger in December 2012 .

Web links

• Breidis Prescott at Sport & Note
• 19. Central American and Caribbean Games - San Salvador 2002
• 14th Panamerican Games - Santo Domingo 2003
• Profile at BoxRec