Friday night on Showtime,heavily favored David Benavidez survived the surprisingly stern challenge of Ronald Gavril to win a split decision and capture the vacant WBC super middleweight title in Las Vegas..
Benavidez dominated the early rounds and built a lead on the cards before a rally by Gavril that brought him back into the fight.
Benavidez's lead appeared safe,especially when he dominated the twelfth round for the first two minutes before Gavril scored a flash knockdown out of nowhere.
I scored the round for Gavril,but only 10-9 because Benavidez won the round other than the knockdown.
I had issues with all three scores as they were all far too wide with two for Benavidez and one for Gavril.
I had Benavidez a 115-113 winner.
Ramon Malpica and I each added one boxing challenge point for the Benavidez win.
Meanwhile in Germany,the World Boxing Super Series kicked off and it was a mixed bag as far as production goes,but a solid,but lopsided fight in the ring as Oleksander Usyk defended his WBO title in winning his quarterfinal battle in the cruiserweight tournament with a tenth round stoppage of Marco Huck.
Huck was determined and never stopped trying,but was simply far too slow to deal with the flashy and athletic Usyk,who won every round,but one on my card and that was more that the champion and tournament top seed took the round off more than anything that Huck did.
Usyk looked very strong in the win and will face the winner of the WBC title/quarterfinal bout between Marius Breidis and Mike Perez.
Usyk-Breidis (who I assume will win) should be an excellent bout.
Ramon and I each added one point for Usyk's victory and the challenge score is 118-104.
The World Boxing Super Series is a great concept and did a much better job than I ever dreamed of filling the brackets with top fighters.
However,there have been some stumbles.
A bracket that favors the second seed more than the first,a lack of an American television outlet and today's slipup that to be fair came from trying to do the right thing.
The WBSS announced today that they were streaming the Usyk-Huck fight on their website,if you signed up.
I did and waited for an email that would give me the password to access.
I am still waiting for that email seven hours later!
Others must have had issues as well because a little before fight time,a tweet came through that said that it was available on their website.
It was.
For six rounds-it was.
Then the site was this bout has ended and the stream was gone-never to be found again.
The WBSS has time to work these things out,but today's issues were less than a strong start....
Back later with HBO's tripleheader and the Buckeyes hosting the Oklahoma Sooners...
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