I still maintained a nine point lead at 39-30....
The most impressive fighter of the night was Errol Spence,who made the transition from prospect to contender as the promising Texan mowed over Chris Algeri in five punishing rounds to achieve something that Manny Pacquiao,Ruslan Provodnikov and Amir Khan couldn't in stopping Algeri....
Spence dominated Algeri in the Brooklyn NY bout and looked ready for a further jump in competition.
Errol Spence is the real deal and if the PBC has any smarts at all,they'll begin to pound the promotional drum for him as a star and begin to get him fights against their better welterweights..
Spence gave me three points for the knockout win and calling the round,while R.L received one point for the win..
R.L.got two points back to my none as Krysztof Glowacki dropped Steve Cunningham four times to win a lopsided unanimous decision to retain his WBO cruiserweight title.
To my surprise the bout was not on the PBC broadcast,so I didn't score the bout....
In a non-challenge bout,former Olympian Marcus Browne won a split decision that he didn't deserve over Radijovie Kalajdzic.
The bout was marred by bad officiating as Browne was given credit for a knockdown in round one that wasn't and hit Kalajdzic while he was on the canvas and wasn't penalized.
Kalajdizic floored Browne in the sixth and again in the eighth,but the latter was inexplicably not scored as a knockdown.
Awful scoring and officiating....
On Showtime,R.L and I each earned four points for victories as Gary Russell kept his WBC featherweight title with a second round knockout over outgunned and undeserving challenger Patrick Hyland.
Russell,who is 0-1 against top competition and just 1-1 vs top 15 contenders in a career marred by injuries,time off and bad opposition called out the only top fighter to fight him in WBO champ Vasyl Lomachenko,who won a lopsided decision over Russell.
Considering Russell is a PBC fighter and Lomachenko does his fighting for Top Rank,a rematch is unlikely,but a unification bout with WBA champ (and PBC fighter) Leo Santa Cruz is possible and would go a long way in testing Russell's mettle...
Jose Pedraza bounced back from a controversial decision in his last fight to keep his IBF Jr.lightweight title with a unanimous and decent enough win over Stephen Smith over England.
Pedraza looked far better than in his win over Edner Cherry as I scored him a 116-112 winner....
Felix Verdejo gave each of us one point with a unanimous decision over Jose Rodriguez on UniMas.
Verdejo has now went the distance in his last two fights in somewhat of a surprise.I haven't watched it yet,although I have it on tape.....
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