England's Delicious Orie, the 2022 Commonwealth Games superheavyweight champion, has called for artificial intelligence to be introduced into boxing judging, telling TNT Sports that "the referee has stripped the medal from Dimeji" during the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. BBC Sport

Orie was referring to England's Dimeji Shittu, who won a silver medal in the men's 80kg event at Glasgow 2026. Shittu had reached the final against India's Ankush Panghai after a dominant run through the tournament, including a 5-0 unanimous decision over Australia's Paul Trainor in the semi-final and a similarly comprehensive points win over Kenya's Robert Okaka at the SEC Centre on the Scottish Events Campus. BBC Sport

The claim from Orie — a fighter whose own Commonwealth gold in Birmingham made him one of the faces of English amateur boxing — turns up the heat on a sport that has long wrestled with judging controversies. His proposed solution is technological: bring AI into the scoring process to reduce human error and bias.

AI judging is not a purely hypothetical idea. Behind the scenes of Tyson Fury's 2024 bout against Oleksandr Usyk — a unified champion holds more than one major world title simultaneously — an AI system was used to score the fight alongside the human judges. A system called "Deepstrike" has been discussed as a tool that could reduce or eliminate errors, bias and corruption in boxing scoring. BBC Sport Yahoo Sports

The governing body for amateur boxing is already moving in that direction. World Boxing, which oversees amateur boxing worldwide including the Olympic and Commonwealth Games, has made moves to investigate AI judging under president Gennadiy Golovkin — the former unified world middleweight champion who now leads the organisation. Golovkin said in January 2026 that new technologies and AI would be a "key element" of World Boxing's modernisation over the next 12 months. FrancsJeux

That push is not imminent. The appetite is there, but the work is investigative — World Boxing wants to determine whether AI can genuinely improve transparency and integrity before committing to live deployment. BBC Sport

For fans, this matters because the gap between what a crowd sees and what a scorecard says has decided medals, titles and careers for decades. A unanimous 5-0 decision sounds definitive, but in a sport where five judges each press buttons in real time, margins can be razor-thin and controversies can linger long after the final bell. Shittu's silver and Orie's outspoken reaction have put that conversation squarely back in the spotlight.