By Keith Idec

NEW YORK – Jermall Charlo was watching as closely as he could while warming up Saturday night in his dressing room at Barclays Center.

As far as the WBC interim middleweight champion could determine, Tony Harrison had some moderate success in the beginning of his fight against Jermell Charlo. Other than that, though, Jermall Charlo couldn’t see how his brother lost a unanimous decision to Harrison in their 12-round, 154-pound title bout in Brooklyn.

“Bro, my brother won that fight,” Jermall Charlo said during their post-fight press conference. “It was a couple rounds in the beginning where dude looked like he was busy, but he wasn’t really accurate enough to take those rounds. And they was close. … We not bein’ no sore losers right now. You know, congrats to him. Enjoy the belt while it lasts.”

Detroit’s Harrison (28-2, 21 KOs) beat Houston’s Charlo (31-1, 15 KOs) on the scorecards of all three judges – Julie Lederman (115-113), Ron McNair (115-113) and Robin Taylor (116-112).

The first defeat of Jermell Charlo’s career impacted Jermall Charlo both before and during his own title fight Saturday night. Jermall Charlo acknowledged he was thinking about what happened to his brother while dealing with a serious test from Matt Korobov, a late replacement for Willie Monroe Jr.

Jermall Charlo disagreed when a videographer asked him if Jermell Charlo’s loss “flustered” him.

“Nah, I wasn’t flustered,” Jermall Charlo said. “Yeah, it affected me. I thought about it every round. You know what I mean? The referee let head-butts go. He let like close clinches, when I tried to break clean, he let those go. You know, it was things that went on, you know like, I felt like, ‘Damn!’ You know, like, I don’t know. I didn’t want that to happen to me. Like, I learned from my brother’s mistakes and not even that he made a mistake, because I felt like he won that fight. But I just didn’t wanna leave it off to the judges. That’s why you seen me close harder.”

Jermall Charlo (28-0, 21 KOs) nearly knocked out Korobov (28-2, 14 KOs) during the 12th round. He hurt the Russian southpaw early in the final round, but the hard-hitting Charlo couldn’t finish him.

Judges Max DeLuca (116-112), Larry Hazzard Jr. (119-108) and Steve Weisfeld (116-112) each scored Charlo a convincing victor over Korobov. Hazzard’s scorecard drew intense criticism because he scored just one round, the fifth, for Korobov.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.