Well, that was almost a disaster until it wasn't. Hello, everyone. It is about 1238 in the morning. East Coast time. I am live in the belly of the beast.

I'm Brian Campbell. This is morning combat.

Here in Tampa, Florida, Jake Paul versus Tyron Woodley to has just ended. In fact, I'm looking at some of the house feed right here. He's still in the ring. He's still taking pictures with his brother Logan Paul.

Paul. It is. It is all over except for us to break it down. Hi, everyone. My name is Luke Thomas. This is the Paul versus Woodley to let's see what do we call this? So it's a reaction post fight show. I am one half of your hosting. Do often morning combat. Of course, Luke Thomas, but Brian Campbell. He will join me momentarily. You can catch him on CBS Sports HQ in a few minutes after which he will join me to my left here alongside to discuss.

Everything we just saw. So if you are watching now, thank you so much. Let me ask you a favor. Thumbs up on the video. Hit subscribe if you can. If you are new to the morning combat experience. We'll go until what behind me when the press conference kicks off. So we have no time like the present. Let's get going. Let the judges score is about the time the fight was stopped 49 46 48 46 and 49 46. So he was pretty well in command by the time the fight was called off.

The unofficial ringside score Steve Farhead had it 48 47 for Paul, but Woodley was down on all three judges score cars. Again, I'm looking to my left here in real time, trying to balance all of this out. Okay.

What do we want to say about that contest? Well, there's a lot to unpack. First of all, the knockout itself was vicious and authoritative. And I, and we'll probably change the future in 2022 for Tyron.

Woodley, I cannot imagine that it would not, but let's back up a step before we get to the KO. Let's actually talk about the fight itself, because here to me is what stands out from all of this. Jake Paul at the end of the day pulled a rabbit out of a hat. This fight was not good.

We talked in the beginning of this week and really what soon as the fight was announced, even with fury and then especially two weeks ago with Tyron and then of course on fight week, we knew that this fight had to be better than the last one.

It had to be different than the last one. They were using the promotional angle leave no doubt, which of course is fine to do. But when it comes time to fighting, there has to be this had to be more than an over promoted thing between two guys who aren't really all that good at what they're trying to do.

They're asking huge sums of money for we got down a road where that was illegitimate concern because through about four or five rounds.

Even in that sixth round, it wasn't that big shots were getting through, but there was a ton, a metric ton from both sides of clinching just endless amounts of clinching a constant from both guys.

They would land one shot would kind of land one shot would be thrown and then missed and then they would clinch the referee had to separate them over and over and over again.

I think I even stopped formally scoring around the fourth round because it looked like Jake was overall doing a bit of the better work again.

You heard what the judges scores were before the eventual KO happened in the sixth. You heard what Steve Farhood had.

Even he had the most pro woodly kind of card and still had it for Jake. So Jake is your rightful winner. Jake was rightfully winning. He was doing the better work.

But they were actually heading down a scenario where the second fight was somehow going to be worse than the first. First I wasn't terrible, but it wasn't.

It's not going to be anyone's fight of the year lists. It was fine for what it was, but this one had to be more than that.

This one had to be different than that. This one had to deliver in a way that the other one didn't. And again, through about six rounds.

That was really true. Through about six, I should say five rounds and change rather. It just wasn't very good until until Jake Paul landed a vicious and I do mean vicious punch over the top.

He faked like he was going to the body. Backed up, started it again. You can see the elbow in the hand drop of Tyrone Woodley to that side.

Actually, it would be the left side. And then the right hand comes over the top and absolutely sends Tyrone Woodley flat to the canvas.

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