Comments Thread For: Joshua Buatsi edges Zach Parker in messy fight in Manchester

[BoxingUpdates]

Joshua Buatsi got the nod over Zach Parker tonight in Manchester, but nobody went home happy, writes Elliot Worsell.
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[thack]

Parker was robbed , one of the all time worst decesions ......terrible night for boxing .Joshua hardly landed all night , whereas Parker landed almost at will , the judges should hang their heads !

[slimPickings]

Both suck. Buatsi , no killer instinct and pedestrian as usual. Parker jumping all over the ring, land a punch and hold for dear life and fall down at every opportunity. Surprised the ref did not duck him a point or two for his constant and blatant holding. Once again both suck.

[Liondw]

Another black eye for boxing.

Scrappy for sure, not enthralling to watch, but Parker won comfortably.

It wasn't a big fight in our eyes, but for Zach it was, it's careers affected. Those judges are trash.

[Tag, You're Hit]

Terrible, sloppy fight. I don't see it as a robbery, though I thought Parker edged it by those scores. Parker needs to do some squats and strengthen those legs.

[super-x]

Parkers tactics were not entertaining by any stretch but he was outlanding and out wrking buatsi who had absolute no 2nd gear or plan b the whole night, didnt even attempt to change his fight plan to win. Awful fight but parker definitely did more then enough to get a comfortable win.

[Moz_boxing]

Summary of the fight: Parker had the ref in his pocket and Buatsi the judges.

Buatsi looked terrible worst i've ever seen him no passion no desire almost looks like he is mentally done with boxing. Parker what should i say people hate on guys like Haney or Shakur but they have something they understand the art of boxing especially Shakur. I always liked pure boxers for example Sandor Martin or Andy Hiriuka.

That being said what Parker did is not boxing and should be penalised and lead to a DQ if he does not stop after points being taken of. This guy was diving in holding Buatsi on waist level and dropped to the flow every round multiple times just to get some time because he is not capable to fight 3 rounds without gassing out. He complained afterwards Buatsi was leaning on him but first of all he intitiated the clinches and holding Buatsi on his waist and secondly there have been two moments where he missed to grab Buatsi because he stepped back and he went down regardless, that alone showed everything. I remember David Haye and or Povetkin lost points against Klitschko for dropping to the floor after Klitschko constantly jumped on them and here it was Klitschko initiating that crap.

Long story short "fighters" like that Parker guy need to be penalised and if necessary lose by DQ only like that they learn what boxing is. Clinching after every punch and being more on the ground then pnches landed is not boxing.

[hitmanjosh]

At this point I'm not sure if Andre Ward just was an incredible fighter and Virgil Hunter just received loads of credit because after all the time spent with Joshua Buatsi I see no great improvements or change whatsoever! Joshua is for all tents and purposes, just ok at best not special, gifted non of that sh_t but average and just think he's not even facing good American fighters.

[jjscruff]

no -- they were chanting BOO-ATSI

[Joseph]

We almost went with this for the PICK EM and I'm glad we didn't. An ugly, boring ass fight. Parker won it, but I really didn't care when Buatsi got the nod, it was that lackluster.