The moment Parker was prevented by the ref from Finishing off Joshua

There are no tears here to taste.

Joshua did enough to win courtesy of his security guard prohibiting Parker from working on the inside and landing clean shots.

He took full advantage of the assistance provided for him by Hearn. So I say fair play. I think most fighters if promised that they would recieve full protection in the ring against the oopponent, they'd take it.

Maybe there should be introduced a new offshoot boxing contest where the fighters can choose to ref their own fight or have the choice of selecting their own bodyguard in the ring who can step in and hold the opponent back if and when theit foe begins landing punches to face.

Wouldn't that be great?

 

Of course the ref used the head clash card. The fact is Parker landed a swift left hook which registered on AJ and the ref gave him a way out.

This wasn't an isolated occurrance. How many times did we see the ref pull Parker away from AJ every time he got on the inside to set up a devastating combination? I say too many times.

The whole thing stank to high heaven.

And what of the crude elbows which sliced up the side of Parker's face which the referee didn't seem to have any issues with? Do you care to address that or are we determined to focus solely on phantom headbutts?

As for firing back when hurt that's the natural reaction of an aggressive fighter. Wlad hurt Joshua yet Joshua fought back.

The instincts kick in and sometimes the best form of defence in those situations is to attack. It doesn't negate the fact he was hurt. Sometimes a fighter gets hurt and they quickly recover other times they do not.

In the end the proof is in the pudding and I choose to go by video evidence rather than feelings or beliefs. Joshua stumbling forward after receiving that vicious body shot as if he was on the verge of collapsing shows Parker hurt him.