Hacker News with Generative AI: Boxing

'AI-powered judge' takes boxing closer to brave new world it appears to seek (boxingscene.com)
Until news broke regarding plans to have an artificial intelligence-powered judge at “ringside” for the heavyweight rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, I wasn’t sure which word to use to summarise boxing in 2024. However, thanks to Tuesday’s news, I suddenly had it. The word was this: artificial.

Boxing, Artificial Intelligence, Sports, Technology

66 points by pseudolus 39 days ago | 66 comments

Netflix customers infuriated by broken and poor livestream of Tyson/Paul fight (ycombinator.com)
Netflix customers infuriated by broken and poor livestream of Tyson/Paul fight

Streaming, Sports, Netflix, Boxing, Consumer Issues

8 points by chirau 75 days ago | 2 comments

Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson (sportingnews.com)
Boxing fans hoped Netflix's live coverage of Jake Paul's clash with Mike Tyson — and the matches that preceded it —would go off without a hitch.

Boxing, Streaming, Sports, Entertainment, Netflix

492 points by storf45 75 days ago | 925 comments

Kris Kristofferson writes a fan letter to Muhammad Ali (lettersofnote.com)
In 1977, Kris Kristofferson was flying high. In January, he won a Golden Globe for A Star Is Born, cementing his status as both a musical and cinematic star; months later, he met his personal hero, Muhammad Ali, a boxing legend he had admired since his own days as a keen amateur boxer at Oxford.