As a Parker fan, I'm wavering

[M Bison]

Schooled him? He plodded after him for 12 rounds barely landing a punch? What the fook were you watching? Hughie's low workrate gifted Parker a draw. A win for Parker when he didn't do fook all left me scratching my head. Hughie spoiled all night and made it ugly. It was clear what his plans were, and he executed his gameplan more effectively, but simply didn't let his hands go enough.

Nearly double the amount of punches, way more power punches and near equal jabs...
That's a schooling to me, last I checked looking to just survive rounds by running around the ring and not doing anything effective isn't something which wins you rounds.

[M Bison]

Yea okay, Hughie Fury landed 29 jabs in the entire fight. An average of less than 3 jabs per round. I just watched the opening round on YouTube and counted 11 jabs landed for Hughie. Those PunchStat numbers are a mystery.

Agreed, they aren't always right and they likely didn't count the shots Parker was throwing when he had Hughie backed up against the ropes.

[W1LL]

Agreed, they aren't always right and they likely didn't count the shots Parker was throwing when he had Hughie backed up against the ropes.

C'mon now, be reasonable. Are you telling me that Hughie landed 4 punches in the opening round?

[HarvardBlue]

Parker didn't jump out to me in the couple of fights I saw him. I might get jumped on for this but I see him as a Breazeale type fighter except with probably a better chin. Breazeale was way bigger and Joshua handled him pretty well.

[keith_head]

Yea okay, Hughie Fury landed 29 jabs in the entire fight. An average of less than 3 jabs per round. I just watched the opening round on YouTube and counted 11 jabs landed for Hughie. Those PunchStat numbers are a mystery.

Hughie barely landed a jab the whole fight.

Flicks that barely reach your opponents gloves are not scoring jabs.

[keith_head]

Qualifying for the Olympics doesn't make a better professional fighter ask Audley Harrison, Mike Tyson lost to a guy in the amateurs, but when they met in the pro-ranks Tyson demolished him.
Then we have the whole AJ won a gold medal thing, yeah... he was gifted it, he didn't legitimately beat the guy he was in the final with he had a few very questionable decisions go his way.

This is the same **** they did with Wladimir, those are/were top guys at the time of Parker beating him, in short they're good wins no need to degrade that.

Joshua work-rate is considerably lower than Parkers, Parker was having a hard time against Takam due to the slickness and precision of Takams attacks plus Parker was throwing a lot and missing, it happens...
Considering Parker was also wanting to fight AJ when he wasn't the huge PPV star that he is currently, I'd say that's an unfair thing to say. Everyone in the HW division wants to fight AJ, everyone wants to get paid good obviously that will be a part of it.

Fair enough.

I'm a Parker fan, just trying to be objective and make sure I'm being realistic.

[keith_head]

Parker didn't jump out to me in the couple of fights I saw him. I might get jumped on for this but I see him as a Breazeale type fighter except with probably a better chin. Breazeale was way bigger and Joshua handled him pretty well.

Nah, I definitely see him as better than Breazeale, Whyte etc. Just not sure he's legite top 5.

I guess we'll find out tomorrow.