Throughout the buildup to Saturday night’s Leo Santa Curz-Abner Mares fight expectations were sky high for an action-packed fight of the year candidate.

It’s not that often that fights really do live up to expectations, but Santa Cruz’s thrilling majority decision win over Mares to claim a vacant featherweight belt at the rowdy Staples Center did just that as they battled for Los Angeles bragging rights and Mexican pride.

Because the fight was so good, it has been tabbed an “instant classic” by ESPN, which televised the Premier Boxing Champions main event. To that end, the fight will be replayed on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN2.

After the fight Santa Cruz (31-0-1, 17 KOs) and Mares (29-2-1, 15 KOs) both said they were open to a rematch.