Biggest fight of his life and Parker can't come to fight in good shape?

[Eddy Current]

They could give Dan Rafael a six pack in a touched up promotional photo

[_Maxi]

Airbrushed pics, Parker was lighter, faster and in the best shape of his career.

How can you be so stupid? we weighed 10 pounds lighter for some of his fights a few years ago. Just because he wasn't THAT fat this time it doesn't mean he was in the best shape ever. No he wasn't.

This is Parker in good shape and 10 pounds lighter:

[_Maxi]

They could give Dan Rafael a six pack in a touched up promotional photo

Come on...

[4truth]

I think Parker anticipated getting inside and fighting there. In that case an extra 10 pounds is actually useful, that kind of fighting requires some mass. Unfortunately Giuseppe wasn't cool with that kind of fighting.

[Sparked_26]

He was in shape.

[The Problem Child]

Come on...

[Bjl12]

I don't think being bigger helps Parker absorb punches better. In Parker's case bigger means fatter and I don't think being fatter makes a boxer take punches better. He still has the same head and a bigger waist line won't improve his chin. If that was the case Stiverne should have had an iron jaw for the Wilder rematch. Parker fought a safety first retreating type of fight and took few risks after promising a KO win. He just didn't try very hard to win. He fought like he just wanted to go the distance.

Parker wasn't allowed to work inside since AJ clinching resulted in automatic separation by ref.

How could Parker win from the outside? Wasn't gonna happen

Poor officiating, but Parker didn't have enough weapons either

[VatoMulatto]

How can you be so stupid? we weighed 10 pounds lighter for some of his fights a few years ago. Just because he wasn't THAT fat this time it doesn't mean he was in the best shape ever. No he wasn't.

This is Parker in good shape and 10 pounds lighter:

Stop it. He took his training seriously and was in great shape. Last time he was 236 was back in 2014.

[Ray*]

He was lighter than his previous weight, his weight wasn’t really a problem. The issue was he came to sell his belt, the irony was he complained about Hughie Fury fighting that way in his last fight, as a champ in a unification fight I was expecting more from him. But he was content (As AJ TOO) to lose as long as he wasn’t KTFO.

[Mr Objecitivity]

Can someone explain this? is it strategy? they come to fight out of shape because the extra weight helps them?

How do you go from here:







To here in your biggest fight?



WTF.

Yes, extra weight can definitely help in the heavyweight division.