One of the scorecards for last night’s fight between Tommy Fury and KSI were added up wrong.
The two Brits battled it out yesterday night (14 October) at a sold-out Manchester AO Arena.
It was a pretty equal fight that could have gone either way after the second round out of the six, when Fury received a point reduction for a punch in the back of KSI's head.
Ultimately, Fury was declared the winner - something KSI has since branded ‘a robbery’ - with one judge scoring the fight a 57-57 draw, and the other two marking it 57-56 in favour of Fury.
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However, a photo of the scorecards was shared on social media by TalkSport journalist Michael Benson and it appears that judge Rafael Ramos added up KSI’s score incorrectly.
The judge appeared to score him 10 points a piece in the first two rounds, while awarding him nine points in the next six rounds, bringing the total up to 56, however in the ‘total’ box at the bottom he wrote 57.
As it turns out, the miscalculation wouldn’t have changed the overall winner of the fight, but it does mean Fury won by a unanimous decision rather than a judges’ majority.
Following the fight, a furious KSI - real name Olajide Olayinka Williams Olatunji - vowed to ‘appeal’ his loss.
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He said: "Robbery, it's a robbery bro.
"How many jabs did he land? And he had a point taken off as well. You weren't landing. Look at your face, look at your eyes. Look at you."
Fury replied: "You're a sore loser. You're a bum. Back to YouTube."
KSI added: "How do I lose a six rounder? Unreal.
"He is the man who is meant to be a pro boxer and he won a majority decision? It's outrageous man. The amount of times he hit me in the back of the head. So many times.
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"And the referee only took one point? He kept doing it over and over.
"I'm sorry, it's outrageous.
"We're going to appeal, I want to appeal. I felt like I won that."
Fury was confident of securing a win ahead of the match, speaking earlier this week, he said: “We all know what’s going to happen.
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“There’s no way this man can live with me. Who’s he fought? He’s fought a rapper and the rest are YouTubers. What is going on?
“In this boxing world, he is a bum. I’m not interested (in him). I’m levels above these guys. I’ve got every single advantage: bigger, stronger, reach, weight. This will be an early night, I promise you.
“I’ve trained like a demon for 10 weeks for this man and I’ve sparred everybody, "I’ve been sparring Tyson [Fury, his older brother], been sparring the whole lot of them.”
Topics: Sport, Tommy Fury, KSI, Boxing
Claire Reid