If Anthony Dirrell indeed decides to retire from boxing, as he spoke openly about doing following his fight Saturday night, he can walk away with a world title, but one he obtained with mild controversy.
Dirrell won a super middleweight world title for the second time as he claimed a 10-round technical split decision in an all-action fight against Avni Yildirim to claim a vacant belt in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card at The Armory in Minneapolis.
The fight was sent to the scorecards for a technical decision because Dirrell had been cut by an accidental clash of heads in the seventh round that had gotten considerably worse by the 10th round, causing the bout to be stopped.
One judge had it 98-92 for Yildirim, but the other two had it 96-94 for Dirrell. ESPN also had it 96-94 for Dirrell.