WBA Lightweight Showdown
A new Word Champion was crowned at last night’s Golden Boy/MVP/DAZN Main Event when Floyd Schofield III (20-0, 13 Kos) challenged our own undefeated Canadian combatant Lucas Bahdi (20-1, 15 Kos), for the Vacant WBA Lightweight Title at Wintrust Arena in Chicago.
Both combatants walked into this bout full of confidence thinking this was going to be easy work but soon found out from the jump that both warriors possessed attributes that needed to be respected and not overlooked.
Although Floyd scored an early knocked down in round three, Floyd quickly found out in the proceeding rounds that Lucas was a tougher opponent then expected with some serious durability and power behind every punch Lucas managed to land cleanly.
That being said, Floyd maintained his composer as the rounds progressed and boxed and moved beautifully collecting rounds after rounds making it harder on Lucas to bully him and prevent him from landing anything of significancy.
Lucas had some moments and made his presence felt as best he could but not being able to keep up with Floyd’s movement and punch output made things look a lot harder for Lucas inside squared circle.
The accuracy of Floyd’s punches could not be missed but Lucas’ power punches were quite telling whenever he did land a good one. That said, Lucas managed to return the favor when he himself scored a knockdown in the eleventh round but simply could not put his punches together long enough to deter Floyd’s movement.
After 12 full rounds of action, the Judges at hand scored it 119-108, 116-110 and 115-111 unanimously for Floyd Schofield III.This was way more competitive than the score cards suggest but nevertheless the right combatant won the war. With this win, Floyd picked up the Vacant WBA Lightweight Title crowning him the second youngest 24-year-old World Champion in the game today.
Congratulations Champ. Well done!
Blaze