LAS VEGAS – On a weekend to forget, at least Khalil Coe could say he escaped Sin City with a victory.

Coe, a New Jersey light heavyweight who badly missed weight and suffered a $30,000 penalty, was delivered a consolation prize by judges who awarded him a majority decision victory over Jesse Hart on Saturday at Fontainebleau Las Vegas.

Judges Patricia Morse Jarman (94-94), David Sutherland (95-93) and Eric Cheek (96-92) lifted the southpaw Coe to 11-1-1 (8 KOs) as Hart fell to 31-4 (25 KOs).

Coe weighed in a staggering 7.8lbs over the light heavyweight limit Friday, paying out Philadelphia’s Hart, 36, who torched his East Coast neighbor Coe, 29, as “unprofessional” and said he took the fight to attain revenge (while getting a payday).

Hart, a two-time title challenger at super middleweight, sought to out-box Coe, who relied on heavier, decisive punches to influence the judging panel.

The acrimony between the pair moved to the third round, when Coe picked up Hart as they held and slammed him to the canvas, drawing a one-point deduction from referee Thomas Taylor.

As Coe rallied and effectively landed hurtful blows in the sixth, Hart then suffered a point deduction for a repeat violation of Taylor’s warning to stop holding.

Hart’s fatigue was visible as the bout turned to the eighth, when he was more prone to back away from the action while breathing through his mouth.

Coe punched and pushed Hart to the ropes before the veteran Hart smartly calculated the ticking round clock and unleashed a damaging right-left to the body.

The burst revived Hart for the ninth as he opened the round with body shots, delivered a power right to the head and followed to the body, even bouncing on his feet.

After Taylor cautioned the pair to keep it clean in the 10th, Hart remained evasive and Coe lacked urgency, which brought Hart to raise his hands even before the final bell.

He was errant in his prediction, but after all that went down with Coe, the winner simply tucked himself under the ropes while sneaking out of town.

Lance Pugmire is BoxingScene’s senior U.S. writer and an assistant producer for ProBox TV. Pugmire has covered boxing since the early 2000s, first at the Los Angeles Times and then at The Athletic and USA Today. He won the Boxing Writers’ Association of America’s Nat Fleischer Award in 2022 for career excellence.