‘How can that be?’ – Frank Warren baffled as ‘very harsh’ official scorecards for Fury v Usyk revealed

The official judges’ scorecards for Oleksandr Usyk’s thrilling victory over Tyson Fury have been revealed.

Usyk earned a unanimous resolution verdict to beat Fury for a second time, as judges Gerardo Martinez, Patrick Morley and Ignacio Robles all scored the bout 116-112 in favour of the Ukrainian.

Despite the truth that the trio all ended with the same consequence, it’s far value declaring they received’t agree on six diverse rounds.

Across the fight, the handiest rounds Martinez, Morley and Robles scored the same have been the fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, tenth and 11th.

There had already been so much of controversy about the chosen judging panel before a punch had even been thrown.

Martinez, Morley and Miami’s Fernando Barbosa have been in the origin picked as the three judges.

However, Barbosa fell in downhearted health at leisurely observe and was unable to waft to Riyadh.

New Jersey’s Steve Weisfeld and Panama’s Ignacio Robles jetted in to Saudi Arabia, though Fury and Usyk’s camps have been atomize up as to which establish would replace Barbosa.

Robles, who was Usyk’s most traditional preference based on appreciate boxing file Keith Idec, was finally chosen in the dwell, but by a moderately extraordinary means – a coin toss.

No matter who was dreary the scorecards, the final consequence left a bitter taste in the mouth of Fury’s promoter, Frank Warren.

“It’s nuts,” Warren talked about.

“Did you have him as handiest winning four rounds out of eight?

“Very harsh. It’s nuts. I win no longer win it. However it absolutely is what it’s far, and we will discover what happens in the end with Tyson.

“Tyson was dumbfounded. They gave him four rounds out of the 12, which is impossible.

“I’ve been spherical a prolonged time and I know I am biased, but one establish didn’t give him any rounds from spherical six onwards. Look! No rounds. How can that be? That’s no longer doable.

“Same with the other judge. They gave him one round in the last six, and the same here with this guy. It’s crazy. I’m calm and collected, I’m not screaming and shouting. That is nonsense.”

A penny for Warren’s reaction to the AI scorecard that was outdated-fashioned for the considerable time.

The AI scorecard awarded Usyk the fight but by a significantly wider margin of 118-112.

However, the AI scorecard remained nothing bigger than a fascinating background experiment.

It didn’t dwell Fury from letting unfastened on the technology as soon as he was informed of how the technology scored the competition correct thru his post-fight press conference.

“S***. F*** all computers, keep humans,” Fury talked about.

“More jobs for humans, less jobs for computers.

“F*** electric cars too.”

The judging panel for Fury and Usyk’s rematch was completely different from the one who oversaw their first fight in May.

Spain’s Manuel Oliver Palomo, Canada’s Craig Metcalfe and Wisconsin’s Mike Fitzgerald judged the fight that time.

Metcalfe was the handiest one to ranking the fight in Fury’s favour as Palomo and Fitzgerald believed Usyk received, as the Ukrainian picked up a atomize up resolution victory.