That was a huge upset of the night and a real shame on scoring, when light hitting American Chris Algieri was gifted a hometown split decision victory over hard hitting Russian Ruslan Provodnikov. Judges scores were 109-117 for Provodnikov and in my opinion that was the close score to what happened in the ring and 114-112, 114-112 for Chris Algieri. This score 114-112 for Algieri have nothing in common with what was happening in the ring.
Provodnikov started fast and dropped
Algieri with single hook to the head on the first round. Latter on
Algieri took a knee as he was still not recovered and was hurt with few
big punches. Ruslan Provodnikov was the only one who went forward and
used pressure for all 12 rounds, he was landing hard punches to the body
and head, and some of them had a great effect as Algieri looked hurt at
least 3 more times during that fight.
I don't even speak about Algieris
face.... After 12 rounds it looked like his face was hit by the train,
while Provodnikov was never in any trouble and looked in quite good
shape and mood after the fight. It is so strange that the guy can win
the welterweight title by landing more jabs and always fighting from his
back foot....
The fight is much looked forward to with Amir Khan stepping in the ring after a long time. With or without cable, watch Amir Khan Vs Terence Crawford live online from anywhere!
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