Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua vs. Joseph Dennis Parker - the standalone IB RBR scorecard.

I'm gonna have to eat a little bit of humble pie here.

On the night, I was watching the fight on Sky Box Office, and I thought Joshua won easily, like 10-2 maybe 9-3, and didn't know what people were going on about saying it was close.

I've just rewatched it, with the showtime commentary this time, and it was almost like I was watching a different fight, especially those early rounds 2-4, which I originally had Joshua winning comfortably. Now I'm not so sure.

I think I'm gonna watch it a third time with the commentary off.

Well either way, I think it was closer than I originally thought, or at the very least I can see why people are scoring it close. So I apologise for thinking some of you were absolutely deluded.

 

How did Putin score it it, Pinko?

 

Rd 1: AJ 10-9

Rd 2: AJ 20-18

Rd 3: AJ 30-27

Rd 4: AJ 40-36

Rd 5: AJ 50-45
Joshua landed a solid left hook and a few hard jabs. Parker was given credit for a missed right hand. Other than flashy work, he was not effective. Even while he chased AJ across the ring at a brief period of the round.

Rd 6: AJ 60-54
Parker is once again getting credit for ineffective work. Another chase sequence where AJ goes backward and makes it look like Parker is doing more but upon review, AJ still lands the better punches like a counter right sweep over Parker’s left hook before intervention from the ref. Parker’s best shot was a right hook/uppercut under AJ’s right armpit. AJ landed 2 nice right hands and a few clean jabs throughout the round. Also a couple of nice body shots. Left hook-right hook combination.

Rd 7: Parker 64-69
Parker’s body work and fighting out of the clinch gave him the slight razor thin edge in this round. AJ’s jab peppered throughout this round was almost just as effective.

Rd 8: AJ 78-74
AJ’s most dominant round thus far. Lands good left hooks throughout the round. Lands nice solid jabs. Parker literally did nothing this round. AJ gets credit for a missed right uppercut that did not land by observers. This was the clearest round up to this point. Very one sided.

Rd 9: AJ 88-73
Shitty round for both. AJ at least landed clean jabs throughout.

Rd 10: AJ 98-82
Pretty self explanatory round. AJ finally lands a clean right uppercut for once. Nice right hand, left hook-right elbow combination opens cut on Parker’s left eye. Parker did land some body shots. AJ pays them no mind.

Rd 11: AJ 108-91
AJ getting the better of Parker.

Rd 12: AJ- 118-110

Anyone having this a draw or Parker winning. Go to an eye doctor ASAP and have someone take you because you’re clinically blind.

 

Anyone who has it 118-110 is a Matchroom and Sky shill IMO. It wasn’t a pretty fight, and the weirdly wide scorecards plus Joshua demanding Wilder come to the UK **** the division up for a while in my opinion. No one who takes their career seriously would be willing to go over and fight Anthony when they know they never had a chance on the cards. I rewatched it and had it 8-4 Joshua but initially said it could’ve been any range from 8-4 Joshua to 8-4 Parker and stick with that.

 

If you have AJ winning 11 rnds the final score is 119-109 not 118-110. Blind scoring from a blind fan!

 

I am one of them,

fair play, defensively he looked alot more sound than before.

 

I’m good bro. I’m no longer responding to stupid. How about you do boxing forum 24 proud and write an article how Parker was robbed. Have IB back you with his draw.

 

Live I scored it 116-112 Joshua, there was drinking, there were text messages and my wife wouldn't stop talking at me, I was very distracted.

Watching it again today, completely sober and wife out I scored it 115-113 Joshua.

Some of the rounds I thought were very close, so I am not surprised at varied scores, also not much happened in a few rounds, lots of missing and the referee was an absolute joke, the referee looked genuinely worried that a fight would break out.

I would never tell anybody how to score, I'm not great and don't pretend to be, there are far better scorers on here, they nail it time after time and I genuinely respect their knowledge and opinions.

But what I have heard today from people I know who are not really boxing fans is they scored it wide for AJ (or perceived it to be rather one sided) simply because AJ was coming forward, they seemed to miss a lot of action, the subtle stuff because they fell in to a thought pattern of "coming forward is winning" so just scored every round that way and also scored them to AJ because he was "trying to make the fight".

I also believe the commentary influenced some of these people, the Joshua "love in" was on overdrive last night, it always is.

I'm starting to sound like Pacquiao fans and the old "play it in slow motion" LOL but I do believe the crowd noise even coming through the TV, Joshua fans in your earhole and the ridiculous Sky commentary really can influence some people.

Anyway in the UK at least, I personally blame the likes of Sky Sports Boxing for the lack boxing knowledge in a lot of these people who are tuning in because they talk utter rubbish most of the time, they dumb it down, blatantly lie and are completely agenda driven and there is a generation of boxing fans coming through that are not being given the tools to score fights or encouraged think for themselves..

Because If Adam Smith says it with enough passion and Carl Froch repeats it, then post fight Johnny Nelson confirms it and Bellew in his accent and cheeky manner confirms what Johnny Nelson just said then it must be correct.

 

I had parker winning 7-5.