In a matter of seconds, Nina Hughes won the WBA bantamweight world title.
Her arms were in the air.
She was one of the people celebrating the team at the Australian ring.
But then ring announcer Dan Hennessy realized he had made a mistake – misread the card, Sports according to Yahoo! He then brought Hughes and Cherneka Johnson back to their original positions.
Now that Mr. Johnson has been announced as the winner, much criticism has been directed at Mr. Hennessy, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and “international ring host.” According to his Instagram profile.
“Is this guy real?” one broadcaster asked after the correction. “Is this man, Lieutenant Dan Hennessy, real?”
This is a similar gaffe to Steve Harvey’s 2015 Miss Universe pageant, when the host incorrectly announced that Colombia’s Ariadna Gutierrez Arevalo was the winner instead of Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach of the Philippines. was.
“Nobody feels worse about this than I do,” Harvey said at the time, according to the Associated Press, later opening up about the “social media damage” and death threats his family had received.
Nine years later, Hennessy first read the judges’ scores and announced Hughes, who was defending his WBA bantamweight title, as the winner, with the 41-year-old jumping into someone’s arms and throwing his left arm up in celebration.
However, just 20 seconds later, while Johnson was celebrating, Hughes extended his arms in confusion.
she later I wrote it in X’s post — while adding a heartbroken emoji — said it was “the dirty side of the sport I love.”
Hennessey was criticized by ESPN’s Joe Tessitore. called it “the absolute clown show trash amateur hour” before asking analyst Bernardo Osuna on the “Top Rank Boxing” show what happened.
Osuna admitted that Hennessy had misread the scorecard and that Johnson was actually the winner.
“I just don’t understand it,” Hughes said. According to Sky Sports. “How can they announce that I won and then change the score? I thought I won early on. I thought she won in the last few rounds, but she won easily. I don’t know how to announce the winner and then change the score.
“That’s a joke. I feel like I was robbed of big time. There should be a rematch. I didn’t lose that fight.”
