Puerto Rican referee Robert Ramirez Jr has been appointed the third man in the ring for Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk’s rematch.
The three judges scoring the contest are fellow Puerto Rican Gerardo Martinez and America’s Pat Morley and Fernando Barbosa.
Meanwhile, a fourth judge, powered by artificial intelligence, will also score the bout as part of an experiment that will not impact the result of the fight.
Ramirez Jr has largely avoided controversy during his 412 bout career which stretches back to 2003.
However, he did come under fire from Chantelle Cameron and her trainer Jamie Moore for his performance during the Northampton puncher’s majority decision defeat to Katie Taylor in their rematch last year.
Moore even went as far as to suggest that Cameron was ‘set up to lose’.
“She’s obviously devastated, you can imagine,” Moore told BBC 5 Live Boxing after the fight.
“She just feels like this whole scenario, everything was set up for her to lose.
“We were sort of determined to prove everyone wrong, similar to what we did last time.
“But she got away with holding last time. I’m not saying—first of all, I just wanna say, for what I was actually watching, it was a close fight, it could have gone either way.
“We were denied a knockdown in the first round, which should have been.
“100 per cent legitimate knockdown. I begged the referee in the changing room before the fight, please last time, she got away with holding a lot.
“My fighter’s best work is up close. Please don’t let her hold the way she did last time this time.
“And he allowed her to go on worse this time than it was last time.”
Cameron won their inaugural encounter via majority decision in an outstanding showing.
But she narrowly lost their second meeting after being denied an early knockdown, leaving the champion feeling sorry for herself.
Cameron told BBC Radio Northampton: “It wasn’t just me and Katie in that ring. If it was, I’d take the loss and say the better women won on the night.
“I had everything against me. The ref on the night… it was such a high-status fight, why would you put in a referee that no one had heard of?
“That’s not my job, it’s my job to fight. I don’t look into who’s reffing, who’s judging.
“I’m just frustrated – if I could turn back the hands of time, I would make sure that was all looked into. I’ve learnt my lesson.”
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