Joshua Buatsi and Callum Smith left Anthony Joshua on his feet, as the latter secured a narrow win in an action-packed blockbuster.
Buatsi and Smith met in a mouth-watering all-British affair on the undercard of Artur Beterbiev’s rematch with Dmitry Bivol in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The former was defending his WBO light-heavyweight interim title to stay in position for a future mandatory shot against the winner of the main event.
It was barely possible to split the pair on paper, with Buatsi the narrow favourite going into the mouth-watering opener on the card.
And the fight delivered an absolute epic, with the back and forth war lifting fans and the likes of Anthony Joshua from their seats in the Middle East.
Smith was cut badly to his right eye in the total barnstormer, as the pair were given a standing ovation on the final bell.
But the judges saw the contest at 119-110, 115-113 and 116-112 in the favour of Smith.
The Liverpudlian delivered a perhaps career-best display to hand a first defeat to rising talent Buatsi.
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