{"id":393026,"date":"2024-05-12T06:16:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T06:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393026"},"modified":"2024-05-12T07:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T07:04:34","slug":"wild-scenes-unfold-as-wrong-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393026","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Wild&#039; scenes unfold as wrong winner announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand&#x27;s C\ufeffherneka Johnson was hit with a rollercoaster of emotions on Sunday, after her world title victory over Nina Hughes was marred by a controversial ending.<\/p>\n<p>In what could only be compared to the 2010 finale of Australia&#x27;s Next Top Model, the wrong winner was announced after the WBA bantamweight title fight in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>Ring announcer Dan Hennessey\ufeff, who has been one of the voices of Aussie boxing in recent years, exclaimed that Hughes had retained the belt via majority decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/combat-sports\/vasily-lomachenko-george-kambosos-jr-boxing-fight-2024-results-world-title\/cf593db9-7f10-4c89-b3ef-70ce64a8499c\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Kambosos falls short as &#x27;all time great&#x27; stops Aussie\ufeff\"><strong>Kambosos falls short as &#x27;all time great&#x27; stops Aussie\ufeff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOLLOW LIVE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/live-scores-2024-round-10-roosters-warriors-titans-cowboys-results-updates-latest-news\/9fe0800a-5404-4b3b-978e-15da0418c1b3\" target=\"\" title=\"NRL round 10 Sunday\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NRL round 10 Sunday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/news-2024-penrith-panthers-nathan-cleary-hamstring-injury-overseas-qatar-jarome-luai-comments\/c4696665-5fd9-45cf-844e-a64bd10e7ac0\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Cleary to miss Origin as Blues&#x27; fears confirmed\"><strong>Cleary to miss Origin as Blues&#x27; fears confirmed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a close fight and there weren&#x27;t too many surprised faces, despite Johnson looking heartbroken after producing some nice moments in the fight.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3d74f036-f117-42c5-a7d2-35720c0f2c18\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3d74f036-f117-42c5-a7d2-35720c0f2c18\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"3097\" data-height=\"1742\" \/><\/p>\n<p>However, less than a minute later, both fighters were recalled to the centre of the ring and the announcement was rectified, with Johnson claiming a 9\ufeff5-95 96-94 98-92 win.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeffThere wasn&#x27;t much Johnson could say to make the situation any better when a microphone was thrust in her face, but she handled it with as much grace as possible.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I thought I won the fight and when they announced Nina, I had to accept it,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not the judge, I&#x27;m just glad they figured out the right decision.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"069bea99-2439-45e1-8970-46a06b80587e\" src=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/069bea99-2439-45e1-8970-46a06b80587e-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"3840\" data-height=\"2160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hughes didn&#x27;t take too kindly to the controversial incident and urged Johnson to give her a rematch for the gold.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;How can they announce that I won and then change the scores? It&#x27;s a joke, I feel like I have been robbed big time,&quot; Hughes said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;There&#x27;s got to be a rematch. I didn&#x27;t lose that fight.&quot; \ufeff<\/p>\n<p>Experts on social media were left stunned by the incident and criticised Hennessy for his fatal mistake.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ben_damon\/status\/1789506763538170307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ben_damon\/status\/1789506763538170307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreasHale\/status\/1789505867446190305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndreasHale\/status\/1789505867446190305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1789505801238782147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1789505801238782147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boxing promoter Lou DiBella was &quot;shocked&quot; and felt Hughes was &quot;screwed over&quot; following the result and admitted a rematch would be likely.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#x27;t the only controversy involving the judges&#x27; scorecards at RAC Arena, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/combat-sports\/boxing-news-2024-andrew-moloney-retirement-bombshell-shock-pedro-guevara-flyweight-world-title-comments-reaction\/ad906ad8-76dc-4b31-84ee-88e0c04a0d20\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"with Andrew Moloney announcing his retirement after a split-decision loss to Pedro Guevara.\">with Andrew Moloney announcing his retirement after a split-decision loss to Pedro Guevara.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the main event, George Kambosos fell short in his bid to claim the IBF lightweight world title, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/combat-sports\/vasily-lomachenko-george-kambosos-jr-boxing-fight-2024-results-world-title\/cf593db9-7f10-4c89-b3ef-70ce64a8499c\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"stopped by Vasiliy Lomachenko in the 11th round\">stopped by Vasiliy Lomachenko in the 11th round<\/a>. \ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>New Zealand&#x27;s C\ufeffherneka Johnson was hit with a rollercoaster of emotions on Sunday, after her world title victory over Nina Hughes was marred by a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=393026\" title=\"&#039;Wild&#039; scenes unfold as wrong winner announced\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":393028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393031,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393026\/revisions\/393031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}