At American Bank Center, Corpus, Christi, Texas, Nigerian WBC Silver heavyweight champion Efe Ajagba (20-1, 14 KOs) earned a 10-round split decision over Italy’s Guido Vianello (12-2-1, 10 KOs) in a phone booth battle of 2016 Olympians.

Vianello rocked Ajagba with a right hand in the second stanza and tried to end the fight swiftly, but “The Silent Roller”  kept his composure and connected cleanly in the fourth and fifth rounds. The 29-year-old found a consistent home for uppercuts with both hands, though he controlled most of the action behind jabs and straight right hands.

Ajagba switched to southpaw in the later rounds. Vianello was perplexed by the change but figured him out by the final round. However, Ajagba had by then done enough on two of the judges scorecards to clinch the victory.

One judge had it 96-94 for Vianello, which was overruled by two scores of 96-94 for Ajagba.