Boxing Challenge: DuBois Dusts Dinu

   The boxing challenge was shorthanded this week (But just wait until the challenge in two weeks!) with one fight on Saturday and another on the Sunday undercard of the Mayweather-Paul act.

The Saturday portion was expected to be a mismatch and it was as Daniel DuBois knocked out Bogdan Diu with a single right-hand seconds into the second round.

Dinu was only able to get to all fours before the ten count was tolled and Dinu was fortunate to make it through the first round in a "title fight" in the eyes only of the WBA.

The talented DuBois suffered his first loss in his previous fight to Joe Joyce, which didn't disqualify him from a bright future but did make you laugh at how the WBA thought this was worthy of one of their eighteen titles.

Between DuBois losing his last fight and Dinu losing (by knockout in both) both of his fights against anyone of note (Kubrat Pulev and Jarrell Miller), even for the WBA "interim" ( the third in the line of their AHEM "titles") title, this was ridiculous.

Dinu was perfect to build DuBois's confidence as someone that the young Briton was likely to take out early and look impressive doing it and everything fell into place.

The worst thing for DuBois is now being saddled with one of the lower WBA belts and will fall out of the ratings of the other organizations for doing so.

I always wonder why managers and fighters even worry about the WBA interim title.

The "Regular" is bad enough, but you could look at it as being the number one contender and could eventually receive a shot at the top title, but the interim isn't worth that much, doesn't; attract a contender usually, and it takes you out of contention for any other title.

Supposedly, DuBois will now be in line for "regular" and its champion, the undefeated and non-descript Trevor Bryan.

Bryan's best wins are over natural cruiserweight and color commentator B.J. Flores and washed-up former WBC champion Bermane Stiverne in his last two fights.

The win over Stiverne in January was more entertaining than I thought it would be, but for Stiverne, who had lost three of his last four entering the fight, all three by stoppage, and hadn't won since 2015 to trouble Bryan and last to the eleventh round, makes me wonder if DuBois would have any problems at all with Bryan.

All and all, other than getting DuBois back in the ring after his first loss and injury, this really accomplished nothing at all.

In the boxing challenge, I earned three points to Ramon Malpica's two as I grabbed a bonus point for calling the round that the fight would end in.

I lead the challenge 75-70.