{"id":608231,"date":"2026-05-28T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608231\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T09:44:07","slug":"frank-warren-reveals-how-he-scored-usyk-vs-verhoeven-before-the-stoppage-the-cards-were-atrocious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608231\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Warren reveals how he scored Usyk vs Verhoeven before the stoppage: “The cards were atrocious”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many boxing fans believe Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> was just a round away from one of the greatest upsets in heavyweight history against Rico Verhoeven, and now Queensberry Promoter Frank Warren has had his say on the fight.<\/p>\n

With just one professional boxing bout to his name, Verhoeven was given minimal chance by most people ahead of his unconventional clash with Usyk at the Pyramids of Giza.<\/p>\n

The Dutchman soon proved that he needed to be taken seriously, as his style caused issues for Usyk, who struggled to win rounds and looked off the pace throughout.<\/p>\n

Ahead of round 11, it was revealed that two judges had the fight level, whilst one had Verhoeven 96-94 up. In an interview with iFL TV<\/a>, Warren labelled the scoring as \u2018atrocious\u2019, believing the underdog\u2019s performance to have merited a larger margin.<\/p>\n

\u201cI actually thought it turned into a really good fight, an enjoyable fight to watch and he was winning it. I had him four or five [rounds] up, I thought that the scoring was atrocious.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that penultimate round those scorecards were made redundant, as referee Mark Lyson intervened after Verhoeven eas floored via Usyk uppercut and then put under pressure in the corner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Continuing, Warren said that a more experienced operator would have given himself some extra time and seen out the round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that if he [Verhoeven] had a bit more experience when he went down [he could have survived the round]. I noticed that his gumshield sort of half came out and he got it back in without touching it, he sort of swallowed it back in.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone with a bit of experience would have spat it out and maybe that would have got him that extra little bit [of time].\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Verhoeven has appealed the outcome of the fight, hoping to have the result changed to a \u2018no contest\u2019 or force an immediate rematch, though the WBC has confirmed Usyk must face mandatory challenger Agit Kabayel, promoted by Warren, next.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many boxing fans believe Oleksandr Usyk was just a round away from one of the greatest upsets in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}