It was the only heavyweight fight on the card. U.S. Olympian Calvin Brock (25-0, 20 KOs) and former title holder Jameel "Big Time" McCline (31-5-3) were ready to go at it for ten rounds of action. Only they didn't really go at it. For the record, Brock won a unanimous decision. But the fight itself left much to be desired from an interest perspective.

Before we talk about the fight, though, let's give Brock and McCline credit for having the most entertaining entrances of the night. McCline treated us to a special little dance as he entered the ring, and Calvin Brock had his own entry music composed – a base-thumping hip hop track in which they sing Calvin's name over and over again. Even if the fight wasn't entertaining, the pre-fight entrance antics were.

Calvin Brock had a strategy, and that strategy was to wrap up his opponent as much as possible in order to negate some of the height and reach advantage. Jameel McCline's counter strategy seemed to be to allow this to happen and repeatedly land hits to the back of Brock's head when they were wrapped up. Both fighters enacted these strategies to the hilt. In the first six rounds, the fighters spent most of their time wrapped up close with occasional bouts of actual punch throwing in between. Finally, in the seventh, McCline was able to land a punch that sent Brock to the ground. Of course, I missed the actual punch because by this point I was so bored of watching them not really fight that I had started to entertain myself by watching the promos for "We Will Rock You: The Musical of Queen Music" that's playing across the street at Bally's. The round ended fantastically, with both fighters going at each other and stepping up to fight, landing several rocking shots each. I got excited at this point thinking that McCline had Brock on the ropes and was going to put an end to this fight, but no. In the eighth, the two fighters returned to their less active strategies and, two rounds later, Brock was awarded the unanimous decision.

Brock landed more punches (180 to McCline's 143) and looked smoother and more on target when he was punching. He deserved the victory. And you can't blame him for wanting to keep the fight in close, considering that McCline had a 47 pound weight  advantage and several inches of height and reach advantage. It was a good, technical strategy and fight from Calvin Brock. McCline had all the advantages: size, reach and he had Brock down on the mat and rocked in a late round. He didn't manage to utilize any of those, and it's Brock and his corner who need to be commended for making sure McCline couldn't utilize any of the aforementioned advantages.