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

I generally agree with your scorecards but you have a tremendous bias against Joshua here. You could argue 4 rounds for Parker maximum.

 

Have you considered that your card is the bad one? To give Parker 5 of the first 6 rounds is ridiculous.

 

Had the first round a draw. Virtually impossible to split 'em, so I didn't. Second was very close and cagey, but I thought AJ's right hands to the body were the best punches landed. Thought AJ carried the third and fourth, too-4th quite clearly.

Parker then begin to assert himself and win the next three on the spin to get himself into the fight. AJ righted the ship and won the 8th, and then I thought Parker just edged a close, messy ninth.

Then AJ got the jab untracked again and won the last three.

116-113 AJ.

I mean, I guess you can get to 114-114, but I think you're giving Parker a more than reasonable benefit of the doubt in all the close rounds. But Parker quite clearly won more than the judges gave him, so there is that.

It lookedlike a competitive but clear decision for Joshua-and that's what my card reflects.

 

I'm going to give it a go when I get home from work assuming my kids let me which is probably unlikely.

But perhaps in my drunken state I watched a different fight (which is possible) but I remember 1-4 being close which I gave 3-1 to AJ, 5+6 to Parker, 7 10-10/10-9 Parker, 8 AJ, 9 Parker, 10-12 AJ.

So either 7-4-1 or 7-5 116-113/115-113

 

Steve Farhood gave the first 4 to Joshua. Let me guess. He was just pushing agenda. Sure the official judges did as well. There’s 4 of us so far.

Don’t talk about being an experienced scorer. This is twice now I’ve witnessed you give asinine rounds that were clear for one fighter to the other guy. You’re Canelo/Triple card was hilarious. You gave Golovkin rounds 2 and 3 when even people that had Golovkin winning gave Canelo those rounds. I already called you out on round 4 for AJ Parker. Everyone pretty much gave that round to AJ. Not sure what your criteria is there. Like I told your fellow mod. Write an article on the corruption of scoring and defend your draw for this fight. You’re going to be a laughing stock and this forum will lose even more credibility.

Hell. Go post your score on twitter or something. I’ve not seen no one other than here at ESB claim Parker was robbed or got a draw other than wilder who retracted his original post then came out with another video lmao

Yes I’m aware my math was screwed up. My baby boy kept distracting me while I was doing the math but my score lines up not only with the judges but most sane people.

In conclusion, both guys fought a negative fight but AJ actually was landing while you guys were giving Parker credit for effort. A draw is an asinine conclusion so really you don’t have room to talk bro.

I’ll give my detailed analysis of the first 4 tomorrow or something. I dm’ed you the scenes scorecard as well. They also gave AJ the first 4. It’s getting late here and i have to get up very early tomorrow.

 

DKSAB?

 

Thanks bud


In my honest opinion, fan scoring is one of the most useless practices we do. No one gives a ****. Not just no one gives a **** because we're unimportant, no one gives a **** because the bias of the judges is ****in' codified. Hence " it's all in what the judges are looking for". Equally, crying about scores is usually pretty dumb and petty.

I was all hyped up on them Headbangerz. I went full bias, and unless AJ was doing something I handed every round to Parker without a moment's thought until the ref snapped me out of my good times and pissed me off something mighty fierce.

I'm getting all pissed off again just thinking about the ****er....god damn would I have leaped a ****in' mile had someone chaired that *****. If ever I needed Stone Cold to kick a man in the dick, flip the fingers, and chug some beers to lighten my sour mood it was on that night.

Ref had me so god damned salted I was hoping a good JP or AJ punch would land on his ass. Let one of them biggens show that mother ****er why you let them do work when they're trying to do work....for ****'s sake.

 

It just seems people don't take into account body shots as scoring shots...

 

Seems to me like the big point of difference between the close scores and the wide scores is the first 4 rounds. Most of us seem to agree Parker won a round or three in the middle and Joshua got all or most of the late rounds. I’ve heard literally every possible score for the first 4 though, and that’s where you get your 114-114s and your 118-110s.

Personally I had it 2-2 after 4 but I may have been (ironically) biased towards AJ because I’m a cynical Parker fan and I was factoring in likely bias towards AJ by the judges.

Watching the British commentary I was confronted by the cognitive dissonance of Joshua basically walking forward and posing a lot while being lauded for his ‘control’. Parker was coming up short repeatedly but it was the definition of ‘better than nothing’.

The same people criticising Parker for staying out of range and coming up short with his punches aren’t criticising AJ for also failing to get in range and land anything, particularly early on. Parker may have been obliged to ‘take the risk’ due to assumed external factors influencing the scoring, but we don’t have to account for that scoring at home!