Saunders, 27, looked dreadful in the entire fight in mostly just running around trying not to get hit by the 31-year-old Russian fighter. The scoring was dreadful, but I expected that. I figured that Akavov needed a knockout to win this fight no matter how good he was, and I was right. All the scores were bad, but especially the 116-112. I don’t know how you could watch the Saunders vs. Akavov fight and come up with a 116-112 score unless you had your eyes closed. Saunders did not do nearly enough to win by that margin. Heck, Saunders didn’t do well enough to win, period in my view.
“I stuck the place out with this performance,” Saunders after the fight.
“I stuck the place out with this performance,” Saunders after the fight.
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