The ruling added Lyson stated unequivocally: “I decided I wanted to stop the contest… I had already seen enough.”<\/p>\n
The commission also stressed how the referee had the authority to end a contest whenever they saw fit.<\/p>\n
“Under its rules the referee is the sole arbiter of the contest and retains the full and unfettered right to stop the contest at any time,” it said.<\/p>\n
“There is no distinction in authority or effect between a stoppage effected during the round and a stoppage effected between rounds or during the rest period.”<\/p>\n
A timing discrepancy identified by official timekeeper Brad William also did not meet the commission’s threshold to overturn the referee’s discretionary decision.<\/p>\n
The panel acknowledged William’s evidence, but said “even if the physical wave-off occurred fractionally after the bell, this is, at its highest, a procedural timing discrepancy. It does not constitute bad faith, corruption, fraud, or arbitrariness”. <\/p>\n
The scorecards at the time of the fight ending read 95-95, 95-95 and 96-94 to kickboxing legend Verhoeven.<\/p>\n
Medical evidence given by Dr Neil Scott confirmed Verhoeven, in just his second professional boxing fight, was medically stable after the contest and did not undermine the referee’s real-time safety assessment.<\/p>\n
“There is no evidence of bad faith, malice, corruption, fraud, partiality, or any want of integrity on the part of Referee Mark Lyson,” the commission added. <\/p>\n
Verhoeven said fans were denied a 12th round between himself and unified heavyweight world champion Usyk and there should be an immediate rematch. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ruling added Lyson stated unequivocally: “I decided I wanted to stop the contest… I had already seen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646325","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\/646325","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=646325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}