Saturday night’s high-profile heavyweight title rematch in Riyadh was unique as it featured the first-ever AI judge, who scored the bout in an unofficial capacity in an intriguing experiment powered by The Ring Magazine and Turki Alalshikh, chairman of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia.
“I am the first-ever AI boxing judge,” the humanoid AI judge said in a clip released ahead of fight night. “And I am here to bring fairness to the ring.
“I analyse every round, every move, and every decisive moment during the fight,” it said.
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The AI judge actually scored the fight to Usyk by an even wider margin – 118-112 – and gave Fury just two rounds in total out of 12, the second and the fifth.
It scored the first and last rounds as level at 10-10, with all eight …