They both did great, Algeri using his size to his advantage and knowing when to use it, alot of craft and grit, tho I did notice MANY times Algeri smacking Prov after a clinch, which really is perfectly ok as longvas ref hasn't signaled to break. Rounds were very close. The Bradley fight showed Timmeh showing incredible grit, but easily beating Prov when he chose to box. And this is a much smaller fighter. Prov seems to gas in the 2nd half and Roach knows it, for him to consider halting the fight not by powerpunches, but accumulation of punches from a fighter such as Bradley made me even more suspicious of Prov. Also noticed once Prov stops attacking the body he goes back to espn level. He stopped using the body attack in the 2nd half of the Algeri fight, making Prov look even more one dimensional.
I think Tim Bradley would've rather been Chris Algieri at the end fight. TB's brain was seriously f*cked up.
Easily Tim Bradley. Yeah he was in big trouble in the beginning and end of the fight, but he clearly outboxed Provo throughout the entire middle stretch of the fight. Bradley certainly won the fight, even giving Ruslan every benefit of the doubt it was a draw at most. Algieri did well after the 1st round but it was the type of fight that could go either way. I scored it for Provo by 1 round, but a wider score for For him is perfectly understandable.
That's what I was alluding to. I think Algieri did a better job of sticking with the game plan and had him ahead more than I had Bradley-considering the KD that wasn't counted.
Out of 24 rounds combined, Prov won maybe 4 rounds. Algieris did better because he only lost round 1 then shut prov out the rest of the fight Good thing prov ducked rios cause he would've got layed out cold
Clearly Algieri, Tim Bradley was fighting Provodnikov and his stigma of not being elite, he allowed himself to get drawn into Provodnikov's fight, and still dug out a win. Algieri came in, people expected him to get ran over, and boxed Provodnikov's ears off,
