Cuban-born Erislandy Lara made it 3-for-3 for reigning 154-pound champions on Saturday night at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, defeating sixth-ranked challenger Terrell Gausha via dreary unanimous decision atop a three-bout card televised by Showtime.

Lara retained his IBO and WBA titles with scores of 116-111, 117-110 and 117-110 and he improved to 25-2-2 in a pro career that began after he defected from Cuba prior to the 2008 Olympics. He's held the WBA belt since defeating Ishe Smith in 2014 and the IBO title since a 2015 win over Delvin Rodriguez.

He's not lost since dropping a split decision to Canelo Alvarez, five months before the Smith triumph.

CBS Sports agreed with the verdict, scoring it 118-109 -- or 10 rounds to two -- for Lara, whose win followed Saturday victories by IBF champ Jarrett Hurd and WBC kingpin Jermell Charlo.

A crafty southpaw, Lara controlled the action with flicking punches and sharply countering in the early rounds while Gausha's typical work rate plummeted. The crowd began booing a lack of sustained action midway through the fourth, just seconds before Lara dropped the Cleveland native with a two-punch combination that included a right hook and a left uppercut.

Gausha began letting his hands go a bit more in the fifth, but retreated back into a shell a round later while offering weak jabs and working non-aggressively off his back foot. 

Lara took the initiative in the eighth and scored well with straight left hands that drove Gausha backward, and the goings-on largely continued in that manner down the stretch.

In fact, Gausha failed to land double-digit punches in any single round.

On the undercard, novice 154-pound champion Jarrett Hurd scored the biggest victory of his young career with a grinding TKO defeat of former title-holder Austin Trout.

The 27-year-old's defense of his IBF title belt was made official between the 10th and 11th rounds when the fight was stopped on the advice of the ringside physician, with which Trout's corner agreed. 

The 10th round had ended in particularly brutal fashion for the 32-year-old veteran, who was sent stumbling with a left, reeled backward from a right and got battered until the bell. 

He slumped dejectedly on his stool after the barrage, but reacted with frustration when the end came and left the ring without being interviewed.

Hurd, who landed 265 of his 753 punches, was ahead on all three official scorecards -- leading 96-94 according to two tallies and 97-93 on a third. CBS Sports agreed with the two 96-94 counts.

He's now 21-0 with 15 KOs.

"I've always felt that I wanted to come on strong in fights," he said. "We knew we were going to have to wear Austin Trout down."

The 32-year-old Trout won the WBA's 154-pound title back in 2011 and defended four times – including a defeat of Miguel Cotto at Madison Square Garden -- before losing a unanimous decision to Canelo Alvarez in April 2013. He'd won four of six subsequent fights, with the losses coming against Lara and Charlo, but hadn't won a bout since beating Joey Hernandez in 2015 and hadn't fought in 17 months.

He is 31-4.

Hurd had won his title in his most recent bout, stopping Tony Harrison in nine rounds.

The fighters shared a feel-out round to open the bout, but Trout began finding success with his jab and his footwork and rattled Hurd along the ropes with a left uppercut in Round 2. 

He was able to handle Hurd's occasional power shots in the early rounds and landed the more jolting punches himself, boosting his typically moderate work rate to more than 70 shots per round.

But Trout reeled backward after absorbing a right hand with 30 seconds left in a spirited sixth round and wobbled back to his corner, and he was rattled again with a left along the ropes and a right in the middle of the ring in the seventh. The fighters combined to throw more than 200 punches -- 111 for Hurd, 95 for Trout -- in the sixth, and Hurd threw more punches than Trout in each round after the fourth.

Hurd sustained a jagged cut over his left eye from an accidental head butt in the seventh and had the ringside physician examine the wound before the eighth. Trout, meanwhile, suffered grotesque swelling under the right eye.

"(The cut) affected me a little bit," Hurd said. "It made me a little better. I used my head a little more. It woke me up."

As for future possibilities with either Lara or Jermell Charlo, he quickly expressed interest.

"Team Swift, we don't run from anybody," he said. "We're ready to unify." 

Charlo called Hurd by name after his Saturday defeat of Erickson Lubin, a one-punch KO.

"Gimme another title. I want Hurd," he said. "He just fought. He just won. Gimme Hurd. I want Hurd."