The tepid weekend was an appetizer for what is hoped to be an explosive slate of fights to start December and like an appetizer that doesn't measure up, it was small and in one case left an awful taste in your mouth.
HBO continued its flat tire of a farewell tour with Dmitry Bivol delivering a dominating yet unfulfilling unanimous decision over a faded Jean Pascal to retain his WBA light heavyweight title in Atlantic City.
I had Bivol winning all but one round,(119-109) but never seemed close to really turning up the heat and trying to finish Pascal off and whether Bivol was bored or there was another reason for an average outing.
Bivol is now a television free agent and where he signs will determine what champion that he will try to unify his title with.
DAZN streamed a less than exciting card from Monte Carlo with Denis Lebedev cruising to a boring unanimous decision over American unknown Mike Walker in a bout that will give Lebedev the WBA cruiserweight title, should Oleksandr Usyk vacate it.
Less said about this the better, but I had Lebedev a 119-109 winner.
The other challenge event saw a robbery as Kal Yafai retained his WBA junior bantamweight championship via a ridiculous unanimous decision over Israel Gonzalez via scores of 117-111 and two cards of 116-112.
I thought Gonzalez controlled the fight and outpunched the heralded Yafai and won on my 116-112 scorecard.
If this is how Yafai is going to fight in the future, he will have real problems with the other champions/top contenders as Gonzalez lost every round and hit the mat three times earlier this year in a challenge to the title of IBF champion Jerwin Ancajas.
In the boxing challenge, Ramon Malpica outscored me five to four and trimmed my lead to 194-174.
The difference was Ramon's two points for Denis Lebedev's win to my one.
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