Comments Thread For: Parker: I'm Not Blaming the Ref, But We Couldn't Fight Inside

[hugh grant]

Ref ruined it. Why is inside fighting illegal?
Why not make long range boxing illegal?

[Dr Rassclart]

anybody that gave AJ any of the first two rounds is a blind slurper. Period.

Parker controlled the pace of the fight and was the superior defender throughout. ring generalship and defense.. two of the four criteria used to score fights.

Parker looked like the slickest heavyweight since Chris Byrd in there. AJ looked abysmal and flat. he never got the timing and range down.

all judges gave AJ 10+ rounds which is hands down a more obvious sign of corruption than the Adalaide Byrd fiasco. I better not see any of these AJ slurpers ever again criticize Byrd. they lost that right.

and the referee being a novice is another sign he was paid off. he did everything possible to protect AJ.

Parker vs AJ, three judges, criminal ref, drunk obnoxious Brits and criminal commentary coverage from both Showtime and Sky.

Parker had no chance in hell.

I agree, Parker took the first two rounds and then completely ran out of ideas. Other than that, the rest of your post is simply cobblers. The ref did Parker a huge favour by intervening during the clinches otherwise he’d have been ko’d with an uppercut and all the talk of bribery and ref payoffs is delusional.

[1hourRun]

Disgusting, Giuseppe should be barred from all world level fights from this moment forward. This is why Anthony Joshua does not want to fight in the U.S.A -- Kenny Bayless, Tony Weeks, Robert Byrd are the only officials qualified for this job ; no euro-ref ESPECIALLY the UK officials can be trusted.

[BoxingTech718]

The referee robbed everyone of a good fight.

At least we could have gotten to see more facets of Joshua’s game than what we saw.

AJ was content to cruise and anybody would have problems done the same thing.

[OgTripleOg]

most likely a corrupted ref or maybe he wants to see AJ vs Wilder too

[Hnnnggg]

I agree, Parker took the first two rounds and then completely ran out of ideas. Other than that, the rest of your post is simply cobblers. The ref did Parker a huge favour by intervening during the clinches otherwise he’d have been ko’d with an uppercut and all the talk of bribery and ref payoffs is delusional.

AJ wasn’t able find a place to land his uppercut throughout the fight, Parker circled out to the right after every exchange, for some reason AJ never adjusted. Parker’s team must have spent time working on evading that after they studied film on the uppercut which ended klitschko.

I feel better did the better work on the inside, which is a given since he was the smaller fighter. For the ref to negate any fighting in the pocket, was to essentially to take away any chance for Parker to win.

I’m not saying Parker would’ve won, but it would’ve been a much more palatable fight.

[sammybee]

Well, Joshua is a good inside fighter with his uppercuts so I guess the referee saved Parker from knockout.

[Shadoww702]

Disgusting, Giuseppe should be barred from all world level fights from this moment forward. This is why Anthony Joshua does not want to fight in the U.S.A -- Kenny Bayless, Tony Weeks, Robert Byrd are the only officials qualified for this job ; no euro-ref ESPECIALLY the UK officials can be trusted.

Those gifs show some very clear BS ref'ing.

[Tom Cruise]

I thought it waa marginal who was getting short changed by the ref tbh.

There were times Parker landed a good shot and then it was broken, there were times Joshua landed a good shot and the ref jumped in. There were times when both were about to exchange and the ref decided he didnt want to see any violence.

Big shame.

[RapidSon]

There was too many times where I was like "yep Parker about to rip his bod..nope in comes the ref literally stopping them from throwing shots on the inside while still seperating them. That ref was a pvssy.