{"id":298072,"date":"2023-12-01T15:25:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/?p=298072"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:25:29","slug":"ksis-bid-to-overturn-controversial-tommy-fury-defeat-is-denied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/boxing\/ksis-bid-to-overturn-controversial-tommy-fury-defeat-is-denied\/","title":{"rendered":"KSI&apos;s bid to overturn controversial Tommy Fury defeat is DENIED"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> KSI&#8217;s bid to overturn controversial Tommy Fury defeat is DENIED by independent panel&#8230; as they say there are &#8216;no grounds&#8217; to dismiss his opponent&#8217;s unanimous decision win<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tommy Fury was docked a point for punching round the back of the head\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><b>KSI was livid at his loss and lodged an appeal, but it has now been dismissed<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>After Mail Sport&#8217;s exclusive, the inside story on the making of Benn v Eubank at Tottenham&#8217;s ground &#8211; Listen to The Hook\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>KSI&#8217;s bid to overturn his controversial defeat to Tommy Fury in October has been spurned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The YouTuber-turned-puncher lodged an appeal with the Professional Boxing Association, who sanctioned the bout, but an independent review panel has denied his desires.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fury beat KSI in Manchester by unanimous decision, although on the night it was incorrectly called as a majority decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He won despite having a point deducted for punching around the back of the head in their clash at the AO Arena in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the PBA read: &#8216;The PBA confirms that an independent review panel, consisting of two of the country\u2019s leading King&#8217;s Counsel and a third lawyer, has determined that there are no grounds to overturn the KSI vs Tommy Fury fight result from October 14, 2023.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/13\/78470697-0-image-a-71_1701438824395.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>An independent panel commissioned by the PBS has rejected KSI&#8217;s appeal to overturn his loss to Tommy Fury\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/14\/78470911-0-image-a-72_1701439300965.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tommy Fury won the fight by unanimous decision despite having a point deducted for punching around the back of the head\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KSI was furious in the aftermath of the fight, saying:\u00a0\u00a0&#8216;Robbery, it&#8217;s a robbery. You weren&#8217;t landing, look at your face. Look at you. I&#8217;m the YouTuber and you&#8217;re the boxer, you have to win.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>He told DAZN: &#8216;I understand the Fury name. I won it. It&#8217;s outrageous. Minus a point as well. I landed the cleanest shots. He couldn&#8217;t get any jabs off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After being penalised, Fury claimed that KSI was not similarly cautioned for clinching\u00a0during their fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I thought it was ridiculous,&#8217; he said. &#8216;In the professional fights, proper fights, you&#8217;re meant to have a couple of offences. The first time I did it, bang, a point off.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But he didn&#8217;t get a point off for holding all the fight. What&#8217;s that about?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old victor threw more punches, and landed more shots, but KSI was more accurate with his punches, landing with 31% of his attempts, as opposed to Fury&#8217;s 25%.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul, who Fury beat in February, mocked KSI after hearing that he would be launching an appeal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/14\/78471003-0-image-a-78_1701439506525.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Jake Paul, who lost to Fury in February, mocked KSI for not taking his loss &#8216;like a man&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/01\/14\/78471171-12814521-image-a-79_1701439785115.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>KSI was livid after his defeat, claiming &#8216;it&#8217;s a robbery&#8217; and hiring a lawyer for his appeal<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Only thing that got robbed is his hair line,&#8217; Paul posted on X, formerly Twitter. &#8216;It&#8217;s okay KSI me too it&#8217;s gonna be okay bubba.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I took my loss like a man from the scorecard read and showed the youth how to learn from it and come back to take a W.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This 30-year-old man crying for an appeal.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Paul and Conor McGregor are thought to be in the running to be KSI&#8217;s next opponent after the first defeat of his career.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/boxing\/article-12814521\/KSI-bid-Tommy-Fury-DENIED.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KSI&#8217;s bid to overturn controversial Tommy Fury defeat is DENIED by independent panel&#8230; as they say there are &#8216;no grounds&#8217; to dismiss his opponent&#8217;s unanimous decision win Tommy Fury was docked a point for punching round the back of the head\u00a0 KSI was livid at his loss and lodged an appeal, but it has now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>KSI&amp;apos;s bid to overturn controversial Tommy Fury defeat is DENIED - Sports Life Tale<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportslifetale.com\/boxing\/ksis-bid-to-overturn-controversial-tommy-fury-defeat-is-denied\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KSI&amp;apos;s bid to overturn controversial Tommy Fury defeat is DENIED - Sports Life Tale\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KSI&#8217;s bid to overturn controversial Tommy Fury defeat is DENIED by independent panel&#8230; 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