{"id":38445,"date":"2026-05-24T02:50:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/news\/news\/Canelo-Alvarez-Francis-Ngannou-react-to-Usyks-controversial-win-over-Verhoeven-201299"},"modified":"2026-05-24T02:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T02:50:38","slug":"canelo-alvarez-francis-ngannou-react-to-usyks-controversial-win-over-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/canelo-alvarez-francis-ngannou-react-to-usyks-controversial-win-over-verhoeven\/","title":{"rendered":"Canelo Alvarez, Francis Ngannou react to Usyk\u2019s controversial win over Verhoeven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/canelo-alvarez-francis-ngannou-react-to-usyks-controversial-win-over-verhoeven.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p> Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez and <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Francis-Ngannou-152341\">Francis<br \/>\nNgannou<\/a> slightly disagree on Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s win over <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Rico-Verhoeven-209771\">Rico<br \/>\nVerhoeven<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Usyk put his WBC heavyweight title on the line against former<br \/>\nkickboxing champion Verhoeven in front of the Pyramids in Egypt on<br \/>\nSaturday. A +1400 underdog going into the fight, Verhoeven<br \/>\nsurprised everyone by dominating the early rounds. While Verhoeven<br \/>\nappeared to be en route to one of the biggest upset wins in boxing<br \/>\nhistory, Usyk dropped him with an uppercut in the 11th round.<br \/>\nVerhoeven returned to his feet but immediately found himself on the<br \/>\nreceiving end of a flurry from Usyk. While Verhoeven was still on<br \/>\nhis feet, referee Mark Lyson bizarrely stopped the fight with a<br \/>\nsecond left in the round.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"adViAi\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Difference of Opinion<\/h2>\n<p>While the stoppage is facing massive backlash from fans and<br \/>\npundits, Canelo thinks it was fair. The former multiple-division<br \/>\nworld champion believes the referee saved Verhoeven from a vicious<br \/>\nknockout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery good fight, I didn\u2019t expect that from Rico,\u201d Canelo told<br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_NSNXUprYjU\">Seconds Out<\/a>. \u201cTough [to score]&#8230; I don\u2019t think [it<br \/>\nwas an early stoppage]. I think they saved Verhoeven from a<br \/>\nknockout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ngannou, who has trained with Verhoeven in the past,<br \/>\nbelieves the Dutchman was robbed. Ngannou suffered a controversial<br \/>\nsplit-decision loss against <a rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Tyson-Fury-361781\">Tyson Fury<\/a><br \/>\ndespite dropping \u201cThe Gypsy King\u201d in 2023. While Ngannou had<br \/>\nswitched over from MMA to boxing, Verhoeven came from kickboxing.<br \/>\nNgannou claims the world of pugilism won\u2019t let outsiders win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutsiders will never win, trust me I know, but Rico was the winner<br \/>\ntonight. Period,\u201d Ngannou wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DYszRNIiK6D\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.26923076923077\"><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saul \u201cCanelo\u201d Alvarez and Francis Ngannou slightly disagree on Oleksandr Usyk\u2019s win over Rico Verhoeven.&nbsp; Usyk put his WBC heavyweight title on the line against former kickboxing champion Verhoeven in front of the Pyramids in Egypt on Saturday. A +1400 underdog going into the fight, Verhoeven surprised everyone by dominating the early rounds. While Verhoeven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38446,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-martial-arts-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martialartskleinanzeigen.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}