No losers in this type of fight as Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Serhii Bohachuk put on the best show on The Strip Saturday

The best entertainment in the world on a regular basis is inside the casinos up and down the Las Vegas Strip. On Saturday, the top show was at Michelob Ultra Arena at Mandalay Bay, as Vergil Ortiz Jr. and Serhii Bohachuk put on a classic super welterweight title fight they'll be talking about for years.

This was one of those bouts in which there was no loser. Both men were elevated by their guts, their will and their performances.

Ortiz did what champions do and he roared down the stretch, so he got the majority decision win. After eight rounds, he was in a distinctly bad place.  Bohachuk led 77-73 and 76-74, with the third scored 75-75.

But Ortiz won the final four rounds on the cards of Max De Luca and Steve Weisfeld and three of the final four according to David Sutherland to get the majority decision win and claim the covered interim WBC super welterweight championship belt. Weisfeld and Sutherland had it 114-112 for Ortiz while De Luca scored it 113-113. KevinIole.com had it 114-112 for Ortiz.

Ortiz had his knockout streak broken at 21, but he kept his perfect record and, most importantly, won the title that he'd chased since he was a little boy.

"Like I said before in my interviews, it's been since I was five years old putting in this work," said Ortiz, who was dropped twice in the bout. "You know, [it was] straight from school and going to work. I've been going to the gym, doing my homework and going to sleep every day. I turned pro and it was all-day business, 24-7 boxing."

Bohachuk left the ring all smiles, high-fiving and shaking hands with fans on his way back to the dressing room. He clearly believed he'd done enough to retain the belt. He moved forward from the opening belt, not the least intimidated by Ortiz's reputation as one of the biggest punchers in the sport. He gave as good as he got for 36 minutes and easily could have gotten the verdict.

It was one of those bouts which could have gone either way. 

Bohachuk moved forward and was landing significant right hands early in the fight. It blunted a lot of Ortiz's attack, especially early. He also got the benefit of a pair of knockdowns, the first of which came in the first round and was affirmed later in the fight by instant replay.

Bohachuk landed a right to the head and Ortiz went down to a knee. He quickly bounced up and referee Harvey Dock ruled it a slip. But before the fight resumed, Dock asked Nevada Athletic Commission officials to look at the replay, and it was later changed to a knockdown.

In the eighth, a similar incident occurred. Bohachuk landed a right and Ortiz's gloves hit the canvas. Dock immediately ruled that a knockdown. 

Ortiz didn't agree with either, but it injected a sense of urgency into his approach down the stretch.

"The second one, for sure, [wasn't a knockdown]," Ortiz said. "The first one, I felt like I hit his foot, but I don't like making excuses."

But when Ortiz came out for the ninth, he came out breathing fire. He was clearly looking for the knockout, believing he needed to win the final four rounds. He landed some withering body shots and wobbled Bohachuk a couple of times with blistering right hands.

To his credit, though, the Ukrainian never stopped coming forward and he never stopped throwing punches. He'd believed clearly he'd done enough to win.

"The people who saw this fight, the people who understand boxing, know what happened," Bohachuk said. "I feel great. ... I am happy because I fought a good fight. I had two knockdowns."

He let the fight slip through his fingers in the final four rounds, when Ortiz out-landed him 92-75 in total punches. In those decisive rounds, Ortiz was also the one landing the more impactful blows. He wound up winning 11 of those 12 scored rounds, if you consider three judges turned in four scores each.

That's what champions do.

And for his prize, he may get to meet pound-for-pound king Terence Crawford. Turki Alalshikh of Saudi Arabia, who has been funding a lot of the major boxing matches, said during a joint interview with Golden Boy's Oscar De La Hoya that he wanted to see Crawford-Ortiz if Ortiz won. 

Ortiz was certainly into it and the first person he greeted upon leaving the ring was Alalshikh. He also mentioned fighting the winner of the Sebastian Fundora-Errol Spence Jr., fight, which is for the regular WBC super welterweight belt. 

A rematch would certainly not be out of the question, either.

Either way, one thing is certain: Anyone who had any doubts about either Vergil Ortiz or Serhii Bohachuk, or who questioned their mettle or their heart in any way, had to have changed their minds after seeing that battle.

Bohachuck suffered a loss, but this is one of those rare moments in boxing where nobody is a loser.