The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 6 headliner between Artem Lobov and Paulie Malignaggi on Saturday night was not the slugfest many expected it to based on the pre-fight buildup.
When the fight went to the judge’s scorecards, Malignaggi, a former boxing world champion, was confident he did enough to win the fight. Yet, that was not the case as “The Russian Hammer” won the fight by unanimous decision. Not surprisingly, Malignaggi disagreed.
“I think I landed more jabs and check hooks in the second half of the fight than the first part of the fight,” Malignaggi said at the post-fight press conferences (video courtesy of MMAjunkie.