I didn't bother scoring the fight because right off the bat I figured it would end in Prov KO, but I got the feeling that Algieri won. Prov seemed to fall victim to the classic early knockdown curse, where he hurt a guy bad early and then tried to force the KO the rest of the way.

The reality is, you score on clean punching and effective aggressiveness, and I really didn't see Prov land a whole lot that wasn't blocked or at least partially blocked. In contrast, Algieri was constantly VISIBLY snapping Prov's head back with clean, accurate blows.

I had no gripes with the decision at all. I found myself constantly disagreeing with the HBO scorecard, and often had to question what Prov actually did to win the rounds that they were giving to him.

And that's saying a lot for me to say that, because Prov is my favourite current fighter in boxing. I thought he lost the fight.