[autotag]Francis Ngannou[/autotag] doesn’t entirely agree with the scorecards of [autotag]Oleksandr Usyk[/autotag] vs. [autotag]Tyson Fury[/autotag] 2.
Usyk retained his WBC, WBA and WBO world heavyweight titles when he defeated Fury by unanimous decision Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Usyk defeated Fury a second time after winning a split-decision in their first meeting seven months ago.
Ngannou is OK with Usyk getting his hand raised, but not as definitively as the scorecards reflected.
“The fight was pretty close. I would have scored the fight closer than that,” Ngannou said in an interview with Pro Boxing Fans. “Maybe Usyk could have still won. I mean, at the end of the fight, I wasn’t sure that anybody was a winner because anybody could have been a winner. From my scorecard, it was closer than that.”
All three judges scored it 116-112 for Usyk, but the AI scorecard had it 118-112 for Usyk, which Ngannou heavily disagrees with.
“No, no – AI might be intelligent, but AI doesn’t understand the sport properly,” Ngannou said. “It’s a man sport, it’s not a machine sport. I think AI, regardless of everything, is still a machine that operates automatically and scores based on some (things it can’t see). I don’t think AI has all the specific or the data to score a boxing match.”
Ngannou’s debut boxing match came in a controversial decision loss to Fury in October 2023, In his second appearance in the ring “The Predator” was finished by Anthony Joshua in a Round 2 knockout loss in March.
As for what’s next in boxing, Ngannou is still interested in avenging his loss to Fury.
“What I want to see now is Tyson Fury and Francis Ngannou,” Ngannou said. “That’s all what matters to me.”
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