Has Joseph Parker deteriorated as a boxer?

The only thing that really looked bad for me was Joes inability to knock out Leapai or even stagger him. As one of the biggest Parker fans on here, I was truly disappointed in not getting a knock out win.

 

Yep - agreed.

But it was an utterly clinical and dominant performance.

Just overly cautious - maybe thinking about AJ's recent loss too much

 

Meh. I think it was a good hitout for him. Yes he didn't knock him out but so what? He got a good 10 rounds in and never really looked in any trouble during the fight. Leapai's chin was solid and Parker realised that so he went back to trying to box after the first few rounds and was decent enough I thought.

 

Clinical, accurate, dominant - untroubled.

But also - boring

 

He did okay.
Leapai was tough.

This was better than his performances against Cojanu and Hughie Fury, which came before the AJ fight.

 

I thought it was a really good mature performance, mildly frustrating at how not aggressive as he could be but also it was a decision as opposed to inability - Barry told him to reign it in after the early rounds.

He was in complete control through the whole fight, and was more accurate and picking his shots WAY better than he has for a while - also there were only a couple of times I saw him actually REALLY dig in for power in it as well, he was not throwing with pull power for much of it and the couple of times he did he really pushed Leapai back.... not bad when one of those times it hit nothing but gloves. Seeing that encouraged me as it meant two things.

1) He has power

2) He is picking his shots instead of using all of it when it would be wasted, which was a place he went wrong at times in the past.

I didn't see anything there to suggest he wouldn't have fully unloaded if there was an appropriate moment, but instead he took risks but nothing over the top - if Leapai had came and fought the way he promised then I suspect we would have seem him starched, but instead he went quite cagey after Parker gave him a battering in the first round and that is part of what made it hard to look as violent as he could have.

This fight was perfectly acceptable, not a massive statement but definitely the kind of easy outgunning you'd expect with a top 10 guy fighting a journeyman with a chin and a big punch.

 

Let’s now make out that Leapai is a decent opponent. He gone from fighting top 5 opponents to a sub 50 opponent. This must be the new thing. Everybody is following Fury’s blueprint.

 

He has never been good to watch.

 

Leapai wasn't a good opponent. A decent punch bag maybe.
The fight was really one-sided, as expected.

 

Actually - Parker was a KO machine in the early days

Sometimes I wish he would just go back to that style. AJ for one would struggle with it.

 

Who has said that? No one wanted this fight, including team Parker. Not their fault that more decent opponents led them on

 

He hasnt gone backwards as such
He was just never that good

Without a new trainer i fear he will stagnate and learn nothing new

 

lol@"never that good",former WBO champ fool,im getting sick of reading your negativity. If hes not that good what does that make you? Hed starch you in 30 sec.

 

Its my opinon
And yes he would starch me... You utter clown lol
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