Who had the most impressive performance in today's fights?

It's a good question because you could actually make a case for basically any of them.

Zhang, Ball and Sheeraz all won exactly how I thought they would. I picked Bivol on points, he got the stoppage although got hit more than usual in the process.

I was 50/50 on Hutchinson-Richards, Hutchinson ultimately looked pretty comfortable in there.

Of all 6 fights, I was actually the most confident in picking Hrgovic KO, and that was ironically the one I got completely wrong, so going off my personal picks vs reality, I would have to give it to Dubois. But he needs to tighten up his defence if he faces a Joshua or a Zhang next because his massive slabhead is a stationary target just waiting to be sniped.

 

Dubois put on by far the best performance. Hrgovich was a legitimate favorite, and he got schooled. Bivol's opponent was AWFUL. And Zhang only landed about 30 punches in 5 rounds. It wasn't that he looked good. It is that Wilder just sucked.

 

I thought Dubois was excellent tonight. His stock has definitely risen.

 

Dubois easily.

 

Dubois beat Hrgovic who a lot of people were high on. I thought Hrgybear was going to KO DD as well.

Sheeraz had a nice performance and Ball was in a real fun fight.

 

Definitely Dubois. He walked in as the underdog, and other than the first round, pretty much dominated. His defense looked **** and he needs to work on it, but his offense looked pretty damn good, especially once he got going.

 

Spot on.

Was not surprised that Bivol scored rare stoppage. His opponent was awful (not a Bivol's fault)

 

What about Hrgovic' constant rabbit punching? Lol.

 

Exactly. I also think Hrgovic made huge mistake throwing all of this power punches in Round 1, 2 and 3. Yeah he landed on will, but you are going to get gas out, if you can't pace yourself. He banged to KO Dubois, and failed to do so.

But the headbutt charging in was just next level pathetic.
How is people not talking more about this is just insane. Boxing is so corrupt and broken it's unreal.

In UFC Dubois was getting DQed in the 3rd round, after the second clear headbutt.

All of the cut and damage to Hrgovic was done by the headbutt. They drain you big time as well. There was prolly 30 headbutts from Dubois.
And the referee was on payroll. Queensberry officially are the biggest scum in boxing, and biggest corruption. Always brought referees and judges.
Hrgovic is dumb as well, as he acted tough and not complained and show the world what is truly happening there.
I hope he find his balls and say it the way it is in the post fight presser.
This was a clear screw job.

 

Bivol's opponent was better than Zhang's - at least he tried.

 

I'd say Sheeraz maybe. Survived a bad moment early and came back to win.
Ball looked good although I scored the fight for Ford.
Zhang had a great KO but Wilders kind of an unknown quantity.
I was impressed by Dubois' chin and heart but Hrgovic almost couldn't miss with his right and I thought he was losing the fight pretty clearly up till around the 6th or so. And the headbutts certainly had to do with the fight ending the way it did.
Hutchinson had a good performance but I'd argue he probably had the weakest opponent here.