Parker's Coach: My Fighter Would Have KO'd Joshua in The Sixth

Kevin Barry, trainer of WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker, strongly believes that his boxer would have finished off IBF, WBA, IBO champion Anthony Joshua (19-0, 19 KOs) last Saturday night.

On that night, Joshua secured a career defining win by stopping former division ruler Wladimir Klitschko in an epic fight in front of 90,000 people at Wembley.

Klitschko went down hard in the fifth round, but he recovered and started working over a tired Joshua. During the sixth, it was Klitschko who dropped Joshua hard and nearly had the young boxer ready to go. Joshua eventually recovered, scoring two knockdowns in the eleventh to put Klitschko away.

Barry, and several others, believe Klitschko let Joshua off the hook in that sixth round.

If Parker was in there, Barry expects his fighter would have closed the show with a knockout victory.

During a recent interview, Barry explained that he felt Joshua was "one-dimensional" and "robotic."  Barry doubled down on those comments in a new interview, echoing the same opinion.

"He's still improving and developing [but] he showed a lot of vulnerability, there's no doubt about that," Barry said to Newshub. "The guy's very one dimensional, he's a little robotic, he doesn't have a great variety of punch selection, not a lot of head and hand movement, there's a lot of things that Joseph Parker does skill wise much much better than Anthony Joshua.

"I can promise you this, if Joseph Parker hit Joshua on the chin and had him on his back like he was in the sixth round of that fight, that fight would be over, there'd be no rounds seven til eleven."

This coming Saturday night, Parker will make a voluntary defense against Romanian Razvan Cojanu in Auckland.

"The most important thing this weekend is that we get a win. Let's remember, Joe's got a lot of very nice knockouts, when you go out there and you try hard to be sensational and to get a great knockout, that's when your performance suffers. "