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Scorecards, the Uppercut Mistake, and Crying in the Hotel Room
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One of the most emotionally raw segments of the interview centers on Rico's in-fight experience of the open scoring [1] — Rico Verhoeven "You should have seen me after the fight. I was like a big baby. I was crying in my hotel room like a big, big baby. I was like, oh my God, …" 34:48 . After round 8, trainer Peter Fury told Rico the cards were dead even — while Rico felt he was winning every round and the entire watching world agreed. This forced him to take risks in the final rounds he might not have otherwise taken. The critical moment: walking forward with a swinging punch and running into the exact uppercut he and his team had rehearsed against in camp, the one move they explicitly said 'don't do that with Usyk.' He did it anyway. Rico doesn't blame Usyk — he only looks at what he himself was responsible for. Then comes the confession: he cried like a big baby in his hotel room, devastated at being so close to shocking the world. He didn't watch the fight back for 6 weeks.
