Sky Commentary has hit new lows tonight

The sky team haven't got enough brains to fill a smartie

 

You sound the type that would even eat her cigar if it popped out mate

 

You give up hope tbh. Still wondering how they managed to give Joshua the first two rounds. Not sure he landed much of anything. One body shot in the second...that was about it tho. Little in the first two rounds but if you had to score it they we,re parker rounds.

Same biased rubbish tho.

 

Just looking over the punch stats there. With the way guys are boxing nowadays they should encourage more even 10-10 rounds. Its hard to give ten - nines for guys that land one punch more a round.

There wasn't really much in the fight. Joshua hit parker with more jabs. Parker had marginally the better success with the power shots. Honestly would have had Joshua about 3 up. Was only really that wide a difference in the rounds he won conclusively over the ones Joe won conclusively. The rest being ten - ten rounds. Understand the judges are encouraged to score a round for one guy but since the mayweather days of trying to knick rounds. Its about time they stopped encouraging it.

 

Joshua was showing superior ring generalship with Parker mostly on the back foot and Joshua holding the centre of the ring, effective aggression with the jab and his defence was really good to be fair mate. It wasn’t a masterclass but he barely hurt Joshua nor forced the pace...although the ref wouldn't allow it anyway.

 

Fair point mate. Think I maybe jumped in with that first post cause checked the punch stats and Joshua actually did marginally outland parker in that first round. Had it two nil parker after two but think the jack Daniels doesn't really help me with my scoring. Gonna need to rewatch it.

I still say bearing in mind one guys 6 foot 6 the others 6 foot 3. With a seven inch reach advantage. Joshua shouldn't really get credited with points for keeping the center of the ring etc especially when there's a punch or two in the round. Its not really effective aggresion...more a bit like getting the point for just being big.

In how their fighting nowadays....I,d honestly like to see a move towards guys more conclusively winning a round before ten nines we,re giving out. Think it would improve the game. The encouraging judges to pick ten nines served its purpose. Was a good system. But guys starting to exploit it more with the way their fighting nowadays.

One extra punch and keeping the center of the ring behind a jab....being 3 or 4 inches bigger and a 7 or 8 inch reach advantage is too big an advantage for the guys that are big for me.

 

I agree that judges should be encouraged to do more 10-10 rounds. Like you say, sometimes there’s very little in it...like the first Ward-Kovalev fight or when it’s a utter see-saw battle like Whyte-Chisora.

I did feel that Parker lost the first 4 rounds, then won the next 2-3, before losing the rest. So by round 7-8 there probably wasn’t much in it. Although the ref ruined it, I do wish Parker had forced it like he was trying to do with Hughie because I don’t think AJ was comfortable the few times Parker charged at him.

 

Watt is terrible, Smith is terrible(all of them), froch is horrible... etc. The same complaints every time. It isn't getting worse because it isn't possible to go lower than their usual standard.

There is one common denominator, sky, it is a joke. Stop paying them

 

Just looking through the compubox stats the now mate. In six of them twelve rounds their was either the same number of punches landed or either one punch more to either man. Outside of that their must be about 3 rounds when there's only been 2 or 3 punches landed more in the round. Joshua took the eighth big. It was his best round according to the stats. Then the twelve. And I think another round he outscored parker by about 5.

I,d honestly like to see that ten tens most of them rounds. Joshua...taking the 8th ten nine easy. The twelve and the other one. 10-9. Then the majority of the rest of them ten ten. Joshua won the fight. Hard to really score many clear rounds to parker. But again a lot of them rounds hard to score for Joshua as well. Compubox does only really tell half a story....but no a bad indicator when the power punches are about the same. I think parker outlanded him by six powerpunches overall. Joshua a lot more jabs. But the good eighth round did bump his stats up.

Yeah parkers charging more was the answer. I think his problem was he had to work too hard to keep the threat of the bigger man off him. It tired him out too much. His hands we,re lightening them first two rounds but they started slowing after that. He was pumping the jab out a lot to keep Joshua away early was working well. Then the tank started emptying a bit. By the time the later rounds came he didn't,t have as much left in the tank what didn't,t help was Joshua coming in light fighting a pretty economical fight and not gassing in the later rounds. I think getting the weight off Joshua was a bit of a masterstroke from them tbh.

 

Seemed particularly bad this weekend.

Agree with the Pov comments too. They were talking like Pov was out on his feet when in reality he was wobbled briefly but I wouldn't say he was in real trouble to be honest.

Speaking of Pov, i didn't think he looked too bad at all. You can see he has slowed down over the years but he mixes his body and head attack up really well. I've always thought his style would be a difficult night for AJ and I do think he poses him problems still, but his attacks look a little more obvious than they used to. He does move in and out of range pretty well still, mind you

 

Did anyone hear froch refering to himself as a hardcore boxing fan.
I was pmsl

 

Take a bow for the stupidest, Neanderthalic, uninformed misogynistic post of the year.

How people who say things like that look at themselves in the mirror is beyond me.

 

leaf toff foridge hey!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Who is showing the best "ring generalship"?

The 6'8" 17.5 stone guy with the reputation for being a devastating puncher holding the middle of the ring, having success with his jab, but not landing the power punches?

or

The 6'4" guy 16.5 stone guy with the reputation of skill and speed (ish) fighting on the back foot, looking for the inside opening, and landing some overhand rights into the jaw of his larger opponent?

For me, boxing is not just about holding center, it is about fighting to your strengths, and for me, judges should be taking that into the equation when scoring.

There is no doubt Joshua won, but I don't think he dominated or was too wide on the cards.

Personally, I feel that AJ was trying everything to land powerfully and clean and was getting frustrated. great cover up afterwards to say jabbing from distance was the plan.

 

A fighter on the back foot can still win the fight from a fighter who’s holding the centre of the ring, but he has to show impeccable defensive skills, landing clean shots without being countered which shows effective aggression. BJS vs Lemieux is a perfect example.

Parker was eating jabs, and although he did land a handful of nice shots, it just wasn’t enough to catch the eye of the judges.