I must be the only person then it seems who really enjoyed the Arce fight at the weekend

I thought in some ways his opponent fought the right fight. Granted he never tried to win but lets face it he was a relative nobody who had no chance at all if he decided to mix it with Arce so he covered up, hoping that Arce would punch himself out so that he could come on strong himself in the late rounds.

Lets be honest, if he would have fought any other way it would have beena a routine 5 or 6 round easy win for Arce in an instantly forgetable fight.

I actually found this fight intensely exciting as Arce was clearly putting everything into knocking this guy out and you were waiting to see if he would exhaust himself.

His opponent did make a fight of it in the final 3 rounds opening up and almost getting himself ktfo in the 11th round in the process.

Overall I thought it was a good fight, a bit different from the usual routine defenses made by most champs against relative unknowns.