Overview
- Floyd Schofield, who won the fight on Saturday, Oct. 10, beat Lucas Bahdi by unanimous decision to claim the vacant WBA lightweight title with scorecards of 116-110, 115-111 and 119-108.
- Schofield needed a second try to make weight at the Friday scale after an initial miss and publicly accused Bahdi’s camp of seeking a last-minute rehydration change that Bahdi’s team denied.
- The judges’ wide scorecards prompted debate because Bahdi scored a knockdown and was competitive for stretches, though all outlets recorded Schofield as the clear winner.
- On the same DAZN card at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, Sergio Mendoza stopped Ricardo Sandoval in the fifth round to unify the WBA and WBC flyweight belts.
- Schofield’s title caps a comeback after a roughly 16-month layoff that included a hospitalization before a scheduled 2025 fight and it raises immediate options for higher-profile fights or unification matches in the lightweight division.