I went ahead and watched the fight again just now.
10-9 Provodnikov
10-8 Provodnikov
9-10 Bradley
9-10 Bradley
9-10 Bradley
10-9 Provodnikov
9-10 Bradley
9-10 Bradley
9-10 Bradley
9-10 Bradley
10-9 Provodnikov
10-8 Provodnikov
113-113
Notes: Prov took over late in the first round, and if you call it a knockdown, it's 10-8, but since the ref didn't, he didn't hurt him enough or long enough for me to give him a 10-8. But he did in round two. It was bad enough that I wouldn't have been mad by a stoppage. The ropes held Bradley up, but it was a 10-8 round regardless.
3-5, Bradley dominates. Prov gets a few nice shots in, but no way Bradley doesn't sweep those rounds on each card, and the body work on Provodnikov in the fifth hurt him, just not enough for a 10-8, or a knockdown.
I want to see other angles from the sixth round. I don't think he was as hurt as he was in the twelfth and second round, and Bradley dominated the first 2:30 of that round, but I think Prov stole it. It was really close IMO, because unlike the second and twelfth, Bradley still threw some nice shots late in that round, even though he wasn't there with his feet nor head. No way I rule that a 10-8 though. The shot that started the flurry didn't hurt Bradley enough, he went down to duck, but got hit simultaneously. He didn't get hit and bend down, and I can't call that 10-8.
Bradley rebounded in the seventh, and although he got caught with a couple good shots, he controlled the round and won the round with good jabs, and keeping his distance, while still creating good body shots to Prov. More of the same in the eighth although Bradley danced and ran a little more, but Prov didn't create anything for himself in the eighth.
The ninth was the best round for Bradley. He did great work from beginning to end, and if Prov wasn't throwing back, it might've been close to a 10-8. He was shook quite a few times in that round, but kept hitting Bradley. Bradley hit him with some haymakers though, and I was impressed with Bradley in the round.
Bradley did enough work in the tenth to win the round again. He'd pick his shots and get out of the ways he was probably his sharpest in that round. His defense was solid, and he had his best round of boxing. Last time late in the fight that Bradley looked really sharp.
The 11th was tough for me to call, but I think Bradley lost steam in that round. He still was hitting Provodnikov, but not enough, and Bradley was hurt for the first time late in the fight. There was so many punches thrown and landed by both guys, but I think Provodnikov hurt him more.
The twelfth speaks for itself. That was Sergio-JCC jr. Round 12 all over again. Provodnikov put it all out there and he cleaned Bradley.
Last night I wasn't doing round-tallies because I thought there was no way it was going the distance. Afterwards, I figured that Bradley had done enough work in the middle rounds to win the fight.
If you want to go ahead and call the first round a knockdown, I'd have Provodnikov winning by a point. It was an awkward knockdown if it was one. It's obvious that Bradley was hurt in the first, but I don't think he was hurt to the point of if he didn't slip/get knocked-down, that it was a 10-8 round.
The first six rounds for me are really easy to call. 10-8 easy for Provodnikov in the second, 10-9 in the first for him, and then Bradley sweeps 3-5, but gives up the sixth late. Seven through ten weren't terribly hard to judge either, I thought.
Watching it a second time, it was closer than I thought. Two judges had it 114-113. That's a point difference from me, and I think it came on that second round, but I'm sorry, that's a 10-8 round for Provodnikov. Bradley did nothing that round, and he was as hurt as he was the entire fight, in that round. The ref could've stopped it, and that's enough for me to call it 10-8. Does anyone have the scorecards from last night?
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