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Right winner, and exciting firefight for twelve rounds

115-113 Smith on my card. To me, this was a 50-50 bout coming in. So, I regret taking a chance and betting on Buatsi.

really good win for smith at this stage of his career, i wonder if he could get a fight with bivol off it.

Smith vs benivedez
Yarde vs Buatsi

that's the way I think.

What a fight! It really was a superb effort by both fighters. A very fine and well deserved win for Smith.

I got the result I predicted and CS deserves .
Tho what a war ! and where can he go now given Bivol & Beterbiev will have 3rd fight for the belts .. Unless one of the bodies decides to force a mando

OUTSTANDING contest

Callum proved there is nothing wrong with his desire and looked as hungry as ever....plus still a world class fighter. He really meant business !

I really thought Joshua was done in the 6th round and displaying signs of distress, but showed the world just how teak tough he is.

Both boxers gave it their all and delivered a high quality war for the fans. Shame it wasn't staged in an English arena, but you can't have everything I suppose.

It was the sort of fight that can be watched over and over again.

Brilliant fight as we were saying in the moment on the rbr yesterday. I said just before that I'd just shelled out on the ppv and knew I wouldn't regret it and after 1 fight I knew I wasn't gonna be regretting it.

Smith says he has won his money and wanted the World title. I hope that the trilogy can be made for Bivol v Bert and Callum gets a fight against Yarde main eventing in front of a big crowd in the UK.

Love how the Smiths, especially Liam and Callum are always weirdly smiling in their fights

Buatsi just gets hit far too much. He's always taken clean leather in his fights. It's what I didn't really like about him. His punch resistance has looked world class coming through and he shrugged off everything, despite being hit cleanly, but in this fight you could see he was bothered by the shots from the start. He gave a gallant effort but it was a limited effort and his level has been shown now. He can still get fights but I think he is taking too many punches in fights. If you actually just watch the Willie Hutchinson fight back and look closely at how much Buatsi takes cleanly from Hutchinson, you will be very surprised. He will look to rebuild and get on another saudi card. I'm sure they would like to do the Yarde fight. I think he could give Bivol a good fight but Bivol would coast to a decision. I don't see Callum giving Bivol too much to worry about. Callum vs Yarde would also be a good fight. It's a shame Callum Johnson isn't in the mix.