Boxing Challenge Week 1!

After the first week of the boxing challenge,Your host here at TRS holds a one point lead over Boxing Undercard by a margin of 4 to 3.

Both R.L and I picked up two points for predicting correctly Julio Cesar Chavez Jr's unanimous decision win over Brian Vera.
Neither of us would earn points on two fights as Arthur Abraham shocked Robert Steglitz with a split decision upset.
Both of us picked Steglitz to win by stoppage.
Both of us also thought that Vasyl Lomachenko would stop Orlando Salido,but Salido (with a huge weight edge and referee Lawrence Cole) pulled out a split decision win,so no points for us on that one.

The difference was the WBO Lightweight title fight as Terrence Crawford lifted the belt from Ricky Burns.
I picked up two points from picking Crawford to win by unanimous decision,which he did.
R.L. added one point for predicting Crawford to win,but thought that Crawford would win via KO.

Next week brings five fights to the table on Golden Boy's PPV card,so plenty of opportunities for each of us to earn points!

I didn't see Crawford vs Burns as it seems no one carries AWE TV,but I did see the others.
Julio Cesar Chavez Jr came into the rematch with Brian Vera in shape and it showed as the bigger man landed the bigger shots.
I scored Chavez a 117-110 winner.

Vasyl Lomachenko might have made too big of a jump after one pro fight,but between Orlando Salido giving his belt up at the scales,not making weight and being a welterweight by fight time and the usually terrible Lawrence Cole doing his typical awful job in never warning Salido for low shots ,which he fired all night,Lomachenko didn't do that badly.
I scored the bout 114-114,but with a breathing referee that wasn't Lawrence Cole,would have won with even one point deduction.

Arthur Abraham's fight with Robert Stieglitz was fun to watch,if a bit sloppy.
Abraham knocked Stieglitz down in the 12th round and regained his title that he had won from Stieglitz and then lost back to him in their three fight series.
I scored Abraham a 115-112 winner.....