Boxing schedule for May

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May 13, 2002
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Two judges had it 117-111. I was watching the fight while on the phone with a family member so I couldn't really watch it. However, a lot of times I looked up and saw Khan getting rocked so was it that wide?
That would make it 9-3 which is a bit too wide imo. I had it 8-4 and I could see 7-5. A 9-3 score looks like Khan won easy but it was very competitive especially early on. Algieri faded second half of the fight and that's when Khan pulled away. I had it 4-4 after 8 rounds.

It was just very surprising to see Algieri turn into an aggressive fighter, a come forward stalking fighter, which he's never been in his career. His punches also had a lot of authority and he shook Khan several times. That's a hell of a job by John David Jackson to completely change a fighter in just one fight. He deserves massive credit for that even if he came up short. Everyone was clowning on Khan for taking this fight people thought it was a cherry picking mismatch, but Algieri made it a hell of a fight for Khan, who even admitted after the fight he was taken by surprise by Algieri's aggressiveness and that he was expecting to fight a boxer.
 
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