The Boxing Challenge continued with two different sites in Los Angeles contributing bouts.
The top one was the featherweight bout on ESPN with WBC Jr.Featherweight champ Leo Santa Cruz moving to 126 for a bout against three division champion Abner Mares.
For six rounds,this looked like a possible fight of the year candidate as Mares attacked Santa Cruz and attempted to fight Santa Cruz at his preferred game-aggressive assault.
However,the corner of Mares suggested he box more and when he listened,Santa Cruz took full advantage and took control of the second half of the fight,which lacked the action of its predecessor.
Santa Cruz took a majority decision as somehow someone saw the fight a draw.
I had Santa Cruz a 116-112 winner on my card.
An excellent and well-matched bout and exactly the type of fight that the PBC needs to make more of and have more often.
After the bout,there were calls for a rematch,but I'm not sure that I need to see this again.
Something tells me that we've seen what Mares has to offer and a second bout might be far more one-sided.
R.L.Malpica each added one point to our boxing challenge tally with the Santa Cruz win...
In the old-timers division,Shane Mosley stopped Ricardo Mayorga in round six of a middleweight bout.
I didn't see this,since this was inexplicably a pay per view event,but I picked up three points to R.L.Malpica's two as both of us saw Mosley winning via the knockout route,but added a bonus point for picking round six as the finishing point.
The boxing challenge currently stands at 100-97 in my favor....
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