Tyson Fury had a hilarious response when asked what he thought of artificial intelligence scoring his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.

The ‘Gypsy King’ was on the receiving end of a unanimous decision loss when he met with the undefeated Ukrainian at the Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia on Saturday (December 21), with all three ringside judges scoring the bout 116-112 in Usyk’s favor. However, if AI judging was officially used for the contest, the scorecards may have been even more one-sided towards Usyk.

That’s because the technology, which was being trialled during the blockbuster main event, had the fight 118-112 for Usyk – far more generous than that actual scorecards which were submitted by humans. Fury made a quick exit from the ring after the score was read, opting not to speak with media inside the ring.

However, he was present at a post fight press conference alongside Queensberry Promotions head, Frank Warren, where he insisted multiple times that he thought he had won the fight. When the topic of conversation turned to the AI experiment which had taken place – which didn’t affect the actual scoring of the bout – Warren quickly asked: “What was the score?” to which, members of the media explained 118-112 to Usyk.

Straight-faced and giving his own take on the AI scoring, Fury added: “By the review of that, absolutely s—,” receiving a chorus of laughter for his quip. He added: “Here’s one, f— all the computers. Keep the humans going, more jobs for humans, less jobs for computers.”

Never one to miss a beat, Fury then went on: “And f— electric cars too, while we’re at it,” which raised a couple of further chuckles. Elsewhere in the press conference, Fury was asked by a Ukrainian reporter if he felt some of Usyk’s spirit while sharing the ring with the WBC, WBO and IBO champion.

Fury replied: “I didn’t feel no spirit. I felt a little bit of Christmas spirit in there, and I think he got a little Christmas gift from them judges. Christmas gift early.” Saturday’s defeat came as Fury’s second loss to Usyk in the space of seven months, losing to the same man at the same venue back in May via split-decision.

Fury went into the maiden bout between the two with a record of 34-0-1, suffering the first loss of his professional career during the encounter. He also missed out on undisputed greatness on that night, with Usyk in-turn becoming the first man to hold all of the heavyweight titles simultaneously since Lennox Lewis in November 1999.