Parker v ??
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@african-monkey said in Parker v ??:
Wow looks like the ridiculous KD in round 2 has really affected Parker mentally.
If that's all it takes, Parker has no business being in these fights.
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If Parker is to continue, he needs to get a completely new approach. When he is in a fight and he is down on points, I just don't see the hunger to do whatever it takes to win. Maybe he just doesn't have anything to give I don't know. He needs to realise THIS IS HIS CAREER.
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after all the smack talk, was expecting he might, well you know, back it up.
Glad I got off the wagon a couple of stops back.
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Why Parker left it so late against this fat slob I'll never know.
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Parker might have done enough to win anywhere else but not in the UK. He only has himself to blame.
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I watched a shitty stream on an iPad in a hotel room in Thailand,
Always lacked confidence in joe when the going gets tough , he has got through up to this fight, but he does give you the impression he would rather be somewhere else once he gets tired .
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@kiwiinmelb I'm not trying to make excuses for him, but I wonder how much of an effect the headbutt in round 2 had on Parker? He was doing it easy until then.
Oh well that's Parker finished at the top for a little while. Whyte will get his rematch with AJ just as Eddie Hearn wanted and get smashed again. At this rate we might get AJ v Wilder in 2022.
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@african-monkey It's hard to say, but Parker tends to lack game plan discipline the longer the fight goes on. He tends to lose focus after the first few rounds and wastes too many rounds doing nothing.
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I suspect that might be it for joe ,
That loss will set him back a fair way in the pecking order ,
Back to fighting bums in manukau , which will be a struggle fgenerating ppv sales , kiwis were complaining about paying for this fight .
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@kiwiinmelb said in Parker v ??:
I suspect that might be it for joe ,
That loss will set him back a fair way in the pecking order ,
Back to fighting bums in manukau , which will be a struggle fgenerating ppv sales , kiwis were complaining about paying for this fight .
Unfortunately he just isn't quite at the elite level which is a hell of a shame.
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@dice Barry needs to take some blame for that and yes, he did bugger all for large parts of the fight and bought Whyte back into it by allowing him to bully him with lots of grappling etc. Whyte was there to be countered a lot as he swung and missed like a drunk a lot, but Parker doesn't look like he's been taught how to.
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@african-monkey He probably needs to move away from Barry, but unfortunately, I think he's too close to Barry and his family to do that.
I think the Parker camp had become a bit complacent, probably thinking Joe could win fights on hand speed alone, but the higher the level Joe has gone, the less his hand speed has been much of a factor because of his disadvantage in reach and not having the upper hand in height. The fighters are just able to see his punches better and are able to negate his advances and flurries more easily.
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@dice said in Parker v ??:
@african-monkey He probably needs to move away from Barry, but unfortunately, I think he's too close to Barry and his family to do that.
I think the Parker camp had become a bit complacent, probably thinking Joe could win fights on hand speed alone, but the higher the level Joe has gone, the less his hand speed has been much of a factor because of his disadvantage in reach and not having the upper hand in height. The fighters are just able to see his punches better and are able to negate his advances and flurries more easily.
Spot on.
And whilst every country wants their champion to be Champion, reality has to set in somewhere / sometime and accept that their best isn't good enough.
Cracking finish from Chisora though.
