{"id":689794,"date":"2026-05-24T02:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689794\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T02:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:57:07","slug":"how-the-judges-had-usyk-vs-rico-scored-at-time-of-shocking-stoppage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/689794\/","title":{"rendered":"How the judges had Usyk vs Rico scored at time of shocking stoppage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Rico Verhoeven led on one score card at the time of today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badlefthook.com\/boxing-results\/115792\/usyk-vs-rico-result-controversy-egypt-stoppage-referee-boxing-news-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">controversial stoppage loss<\/a> to Oleksandr Usyk, though he wouldn\u2019t have had the fight gone into the 12th round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At the end of 10 rounds, two judges (Manuel Oliver Palomo and Fabian Guggenheim) had the fight scored even, 95-95, with judge Pasquale Procopio scoring Verhoeven ahead, 96-94.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But Usyk (25-0, 16 KO) had scored a knockdown late in the 11th round, before a further flurry led referee Mark Lyson to stopping the fight at 2:59, just before the break to end that round and go into the 12th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Many, I\u2019m guessing, still would have rather seen what would have happened from there, even if the odds are that Usyk would have scored a 12th round stoppage of a tired, hurt Verhoeven, who may not have had enough time to recover from the 11th round onslaught from his opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rico Verhoeven led on one score card at the time of today\u2019s controversial stoppage loss to Oleksandr Usyk,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-689794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}