Parker v ??

JK

Will be fireworks early...hopefully!

Parker there to make a statement, well so they say. Let’s see what happens once the bell rings

African Monkey

@mn5 Based on Whyte being very over-rated, coming in overweight and the fact that Parker is better than him in every department. Whyte hasn't beaten anyone decent (won a robbery against a past it Chisora) and if he wasn't promoted by Eddie Hearn he'd be nowhere.

MN5

@african-monkey said in Parker v ??:

@mn5 Based on Whyte being very over-rated, coming in overweight and the fact that Parker is better than him in every department. Whyte hasn't beaten anyone decent (won a robbery against a past it Chisora) and if he wasn't promoted by Eddie Hearn he'd be nowhere.

Righto.
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Here's hoping then ?

Dice

Parker getting torched. No defense at all in this fight. Whyte well ahead at this point.

African Monkey

Wow looks like the ridiculous KD in round 2 has really affected Parker mentally.

SammyC

Unless Parker flukes a knockout in the last couple of rounds, he is done and will never get another big fight again

hydro11

@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.

Dice

For a fighter with t-rex arms, fighting on the back foot is not the way.

African Monkey

@sammyc Yeah long way back for him after this. He'll either have to spend a year or 2 fighting low level journeymen or become a gatekeeper similar to Chisora/Takam.

Whyte going roughouse seemed to affect Parker.

African Monkey

@hydro11 Agreed, I thought he was better than this. Still not massive on Whyte personally but Parker has been extremely disappointing.

hydro11

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.

taniwharugby

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.

hydro11

Parker needed to do what he did in the 12th, in the 10th and he probably would have won.

African Monkey

Why Parker left it so late against this fat slob I'll never know.

kiwiinmelb

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African Monkey

Parker might have done enough to win anywhere else but not in the UK. He only has himself to blame.

kiwiinmelb

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 .

African Monkey

@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.

Dice

@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.

kiwiinmelb

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 .

The Silver Fern

Parker v ??