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Joshua v Parker


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Judging by his last few fights i think he might be a bit overrated, the fight with Ruiz was a draw at best and Hughie Fury 100% beat him.

Maori people are a different level of tough though so anything could happen.........still going for AJ inside 8 rounds

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Hugihie can't win a fight from running away the whole fight an not throw anything . Your not serious are ya lol.. an Ruiz was good fight very dangerous man he is . It was a fifty fifty that fight.. but also Parker was no were near his best for them last 3 he woulda been bout 60,70% due to the injury's he was carrying

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Hugihie can't win a fight from running away the whole fight an not throw anything . Your not serious are ya lol.. an Ruiz was good fight very dangerous man he is . It was a fifty fifty that fight.. but also Parker was no were near his best for them last 3 he woulda been bout 60,70% due to the injury's he was carrying

Saying Fury beat him is a lot less ridiculous than saying Parker was deserving of the 118-110 scoring. In my opinion at least. I’ve only watched it the once though. My opinion has been known to change after rewatching fights.

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Hugihie can't win a fight from running away the whole fight an not throw anything . Your not serious are ya lol.. an Ruiz was good fight very dangerous man he is . It was a fifty fifty that fight.. but also Parker was no were near his best for them last 3 he woulda been bout 60,70% due to the injury's he was carrying

Parker cant win a fight blindly following Fury around the ring either mate, it was almost a copy of Tyson vs Wlad but i would have expected the results to be the other way around (Tyson getting robbed and Hughie getting a unanimous/split decision)

As for Ruiz being dangerous he would be if he lost all that blubber and fought at light heavyweight, got a funny feeling this elbow surgery talk is their ready made excuse if he gets beaten. "he came back too quickly" or "the injury flared up again in the fight"

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I've never watched a Parker fight and fought "wow, this guy is great". I felt the same about Joshua for a while. And even now he's not "great", he's good, quick and powerful, sure. It wasn't until I watched the AJ/Whyte fight where I thought "okay sure, this guy's good". And again with Klitschko, sure everyone says Vladimir was old blah blah. But i watched that fight. He was light footed, lightning quick and his jab was the best I have ever seen it, on top of that the very round after he got knocked down he pulled the 10/8 back with his own knockdown. Vladimir was close to his best and Joshua took a break mid rounds, got his composure back before unloading again. You can't earn that, you can't buy it, you can't train it. Heart and will like that is what changes the game. Parker just doesn't have it. It's not gonna be a close fight.

 

It'll be fun to watch, Parker will learn pretty quickly he's not gonna win by dancing and using his "speed". It'll turn to a brawl. And Joshua wins.

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Parker hit Hughie though not much but he did an Hughie didn't throw nothing . Plus Parker was champ the way I see it is you gotta beat the champ not just get away from them :) .. Parker is the underdog here but if he puts in what he's done in training he is gonna be 50% better he just need to fight smart as Joshua is a beast but not unbeatable . Looking forward to seeing Parker at his best as he hasn't been near it since before Ruiz fight due to his injury's ... But if you have a lazy 20 chuck it on Parker lol he has ridicules odds to win an it is closer then they say an hey Wats a lazy 20 to lose ;)

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Good win for Joshua, but i think Parker proved he is a solid fighter, good movement and chin, still only 26y old and was fighting in front of 70k Joshua fans. It did not help that the ref broke them up whenever they got within a few inches of each other, that did not favor him being the smaller, lighter fighter. I think that with a bit of experience and different circumstances, 2-3 years down the road this can be a lot closer.

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As a kiwi I'm very proud of Parker he done as well as he could there where a few things like the ref in particular that wasent right . But aj did the job an he did it well but there was respect for his opponent . Well done aj . An Parker don't wry mate we be back

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I would not say Parker looked like an amateur at all, the odds were 33/1 and it did not look anywhere near 33/1 in the actual fight, he won 2-3 of the rounds, landed a few good strikes and was never really in any trouble the whole fight, we not rocked, did not take much damage besides the small cut on the left eye. The rounds were most certainly not dominated by Joshua, he was winning them but they were relatively close in general. Also how did Joshua fight a game plan that was against his weaknesses? The jab is one of his biggest strength's and it worked for him the whole fight, whenever Parker went in close he was not allowed by the ref to use his gameplan in the clinch, so he was stuck with just using combinations from far, in such a fight he had little chance to win.

 

Either way, i was happy Joshua win, being British myself, just i was impressed by Parker in general, everyone was saying he will get totally mauled and KOed early.

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Yeah the rounds were absolutely dominated by Joshua. 100%. As for the jab, that is his weakness. He's never had a jab. He was ridiculed by Klitschko's jab in their fight and only just started working on it. Not sure if this is your first Joshua fight or not but yeah Parker looked basic. Basic movement. Basic jab. Basic counter. Basic clinching. He looked like an amateur fighting a guy that wanted to play it safe. Parker never did anything that made it look like he was even trying to win.

 

On top of that, after the first couple of rounds Joshua dominated the clinches and he was unloading his big uppercuts and over hands in the clinch, if the ref let them go he probably would have knocked him out. He was using his jab and saving his big punches for the clinch knowing Parker would resort to that. His gameplan was on point and it was easy in the end.

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Ok that is your opinion, i like facts much more though, here was the official stats:

 

Total punches landed Joshua = 139 vs 101 Parker (by no means would i call that a landslide difference)

Total Jabs landed = Joshua 93 vs 49 Parker.

Power shots landed Joshua 46 vs Parker 52

 

Parker was also the more active of the fighters throwing more. So all in all, the Jab saved Joshua because in the power strikes he was losing.

 

Note: nobody said Joshua had a better jab than Klitschko, in fact i think he has one of the best jabs in modern HW history (if not the best), but against a much smaller fighter like Parker, it was the obvious weapon (he also talked about this in his interview after the fight).

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Lol love this post .. actually watched this fight again yesterday .. I enjoyed the technical value in it . Parker trying trick Joshua all fight with not leaning in when he jabbed trying make an throw an get him with solid counter but respect to aj he didn't fall for it at all

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