By Bill "Two Scoops" Emes

Ruslan "Siberian Rocky" Provodnikov (23-3, 16KOs) is stunned that undefeated Chris Algieri (20-0, 8KOs) pulled off the biggest win of his career on Saturday night, when he got up from two knockdowns in the first round and won a twelve round split decision to capture the WBO junior welterweight championship at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Provodnikov is open to a rematch, but prefers a venue in Las Vegas. He felt Algieri didn't do much to deserve the decision, simply running all night and throwing a lot of jabs.

''I think that you guys can be the judges,'' Provodinkov said through manager Vadim Kornilov. ''I haven't seen the fight yet to make a judgment on the way it went, but to me it feels like he was running all night and just jabbing. You can see the way I look and you saw the way he looks, and to me I don't see how you can win the fight just running all day.

''In my view power punches win fights and he outjabbed us in that area, but power punches it was a thousand to one. We landed most of the shots and that's why I thought we deserved the fight.''