20 October 2023 , 18:47
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KSI has lodged an appeal against his defeat by Tommy Fury last weekend.
The YouTuber was on the wrong end of a majority decision after six sleep-inducing rounds in Manchester. The result was later upgraded to a unanimous decision when one of the judges' scorecards was found to have been added up wrongly.
But KSI was adamant he should have had his hand raised, insisting the result was a "robbery". Robbery. It’s a robbery bro,” he said after the final bell. “How many shots did you land? You got hardly any shots off. Look at your face, look at your eyes. I’m the YouTuber and you’re the boxer, you have to win.
“[I won rounds] 1-3 and a point off, how do I lose a six-rounder? Unreal. He’s the man that’s meant to be the pro boxer. The amount of times he hit me in the back of the head and the referee only gave one point, and he was doing it over and over. He was trying to f*** up my equilibrium. It’s outrageous. We’re going to appeal. We need to appeal. I feel like I won that.”
On Friday, KSI instructed a lawyer to lodge an appeal and the Professional Boxing Association, which oversees many influencer boxing events, later confirmed they had received such a motion. Fury, meanwhile, hit out at his opponent's tactics in the fight which saw KSI grab hold of Fury at every opportunity.
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“At the end of the day, he can say what he wants, but hugging and doing star jumps in the ring does not win a fight,” Fury said on Good Morning Britain. "He can go on about how he was robbed, but it was his show [a Misfits event], his officials, his judges. So, are you saying that your own people, that you employed, robbed you?
"It’s very hard to fight someone who doesn’t want to fight. I don’t know [about the chance of a rematch], we’re gonna see. But that was a horrible fight to be a part of. He didn’t wanna fight, he didn’t want to stand there and give the fans a good fight. He just wanted to make it awkward, look horrible and run around the ring for six rounds. It’s very irritating for someone like me, who wanted to get in there and have a proper fight.”