With two knockdowns scored and zhang won at least half of the rounds. There is no way in hell parker won 9 rounds. This should have been 8-4 zhaang at the minimum. I'm disgusted right now. Now why did they rob him? It's because of his race.
Parker kept punching while Zhang stopped completely, thus scoring points and damaging Zhang's ability to win on the cards.
They were all blocked. Zhang was unmarked
What effective aggression or damage did he do to Zhang?
Parker kept punching while Zhang stopped completely, thus scoring points and damaging Zhang's ability to win on the cards.
It's a credit to Parker's training and discipline that he looked to bank the champuonship rounds by sticking to the game plan rather than look to blast a tired and gasping Zhang out.
can you post gifs of what he did in the championship rounds? what effective aggression or damage did he do to Zhang?
Agreed to all.
I can't believe so many people consider Zhang v Parker a robbery or even unfair at all. The main theory ahead of this fight was either Zhang wins vy KO or Parker wins on points. The main variable was Zhang's activity/stamina, not Parker's.
So it ended as predicted, but Zhang's activity and stamina in this one was even worse than I expected. It was at least one of the most broing fights I've ever seen that actually had two knockdowns, which is hard to do (hard to make it that boring even with 2 kds).
If he was gonna suck so bad at the end, he mightve just given everything earlier and tried to finish Parker. But I guess if that hadn't worked, considering how he already looked for the second half, he mightve been so exhausted that Parker mightve gotten the KO.
It's a credit to Parker's training and discipline that he looked to bank the champuonship rounds by sticking to the game plan rather than look to blast a tired and gasping Zhang out.
No, in fact. Just a consideration.
Look, this is more of a case of Zhang having thrown away a win than anything else. I agree with you that scoring a fight should go beyond the surface, but the reality is that the judges saw what many people saw. Namely, a well-trained athlete who recovered from two knockdowns and was generally more active against a big fat man who spent a lot of time making faces, shrugging, not throwing and - worst of all - not closing the show when he had the chance to. That he ended the fight completely spent definitely didn't help in the judges' perception.
Unfortunately, how one ends a fight is remembered more than the earlier rounds. Nick Ball is perceived to have been robbed last Friday because he ended with a crescendo enhanced by two knockdowns. But in the first half of the fight Vargas had completely dominated him, making him look stupid several times. Therefore the draw was fair.
Finally, the Saudi people are looking to stage big events all the time, and I'm sure they prefer watching spectacular fighters than people who just do the minimum to get the job done. I'm afraid Zhang, for them, belongs to the latter category.
Agreed to all.
I can't believe so many people consider Zhang v Parker a robbery or even unfair at all. The main theory ahead of this fight was either Zhang wins vy KO or Parker wins on points. The main variable was Zhang's activity/stamina, not Parker's.
So it ended as predicted, but Zhang's activity and stamina in this one was even worse than I expected. It was at least one of the most broing fights I've ever seen that actually had two knockdowns, which is hard to do (hard to make it that boring even with 2 kds).
If he was gonna suck so bad at the end, he mightve just given everything earlier and tried to finish Parker. But I guess if that hadn't worked, considering how he already looked for the second half, he mightve been so exhausted that Parker mightve gotten the KO.
I feel that after having beaten Hrgovic, Joyce (twice) and Parker, 30% of the top ten, Zhang can be pegged as robbery prone.
The fight was very close, and Zhang was very conservative; But Parker did not enough himself to offset the knockdowns.
Zhang got jobbed again.
If Boxing was a single entity for major events like the UFC, those judges would have had instructions to help build the brand by tossing those too close to call rounds over to the 65 million Chinese watching.
That's boxing for ya.
Shoot yourself in the foot.
No, in fact. Just a consideration.
Look, this is more of a case of Zhang having thrown away a win than anything else. I agree with you that scoring a fight should go beyond the surface, but the reality is that the judges saw what many people saw. Namely, a well-trained athlete who recovered from two knockdowns and was generally more active against a big fat man who spent a lot of time making faces, shrugging, not throwing and - worst of all - not closing the show when he had the chance to. That he ended the fight completely spent definitely didn't help in the judges' perception.
Unfortunately, how one ends a fight is remembered more than the earlier rounds. Nick Ball is perceived to have been robbed last Friday because he ended with a crescendo enhanced by two knockdowns. But in the first half of the fight Vargas had completely dominated him, making him look stupid several times. Therefore the draw was fair.
Finally, the Saudi people are looking to stage big events all the time, and I'm sure they prefer watching spectacular fighters than people who just do the minimum to get the job done. I'm afraid Zhang, for them, belongs to the latter category.
Autist writes a novel.
it’s still not a scoring criteria
That is not a scoring criteria
No, in fact. Just a consideration.
Look, this is more of a case of Zhang having thrown away a win than anything else. I agree with you that scoring a fight should go beyond the surface, but the reality is that the judges saw what many people saw. Namely, a well-trained athlete who recovered from two knockdowns and was generally more active against a big fat man who spent a lot of time making faces, shrugging, not throwing and - worst of all - not closing the show when he had the chance to. That he ended the fight completely spent definitely didn't help in the judges' perception.
Unfortunately, how one ends a fight is remembered more than the earlier rounds. Nick Ball is perceived to have been robbed last Friday because he ended with a crescendo enhanced by two knockdowns. But in the first half of the fight Vargas had completely dominated him, making him look stupid several times. Therefore the draw was fair.
Finally, the Saudi people are looking to stage big events all the time, and I'm sure they prefer watching spectacular fighters than people who just do the minimum to get the job done. I'm afraid Zhang, for them, belongs to the latter category.
I didn't give Zhang much of a chance to win a decision going into this. He needed a KO. Parker set himself up for a big fight after beating Wilder. It makes more sense to back Parker at this point and put him another big matchup in Saudia when the time is right. This a return on investment type deal with Parker at this point. He wasn't supposed to beat Wilder. Now they're trying to make the most out of the upset.
Granted, that's just my political viewing and not of the fight itself. You can argue Zhang didn't get hit enough with clean punches and he got the 2 KDs, so maybe he deserved to win by a point. Though I'd like to believe there are politics involved with close fights and who has more potential for future bouts. Zhang is what? 40? 41 already? I don't think the Saudia see much more from him.
Zhang did nothing to win that fight at the end …….he literally had no gas after the 6th round and all (e had to do was push for a couple of late rounds and he would have won but he didn’t and Parker deserved the victory 100%