Top notch insight bud and couldn't agree more. Posts started getting dropped halfway through but I cannot see any way Smith 'took' this decision and Vlasov more than earned it I felt. Tale of two styles...the ohhs and awws of the occasional big bomb from Smith and the constant work rate and controlling the ring, keeping Smith backing up, of Vlasov. I'm not one to run yelling robbery and conspiracy but this was just shady. I do think and replay showed Vlasov was indeed hit behind the head in 11th and the round turned into a clustrfk of a mess. The shady part comes in when the Top Rank executive and the local promoter are literally jumping up and down all along ringside on live tv chastising and yelling at the referee and then shown to be hovering over the shoulders of a judge and replay officials. That is not the first time this has happened recently. No points were taken by the referee but then when the official scorecards were made public this morning one judge "opted" to make the 11th a 10-8 round for Smith . A 10 point must system has the option for a judge if they feel it was an utterly dominate battering by one fighter minus a ruled KD but this felt like more of an insurance policy type deduction. What kind of crooked BS is that. They had all the talk up of Beterbiev v Smith going in but the only thing that should take place is an immediate rematch being ordered. There are robberies..and there are close fights..but this was not a 'coin flip that could have gone either way' type fight. I picked and wanted Smith to win this one but I had Vlasov winning clear 8-4 maybe 7-5 and I believe that may be generous.