Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua vs. Francis Zavier Ngannou & Zhilei Zhang vs. Joseph Parker RBR.

Zhang’s power is genuinely insane but he doesn’t have the engine to beat the top guys. You have to box smart to beat him and that’s exactly what Parker and Lee have done. He’s come on tremendously as a fighter Joe and he deserves a monster payday.

 

Got quite the resumé has Parker. Boring as hell but is clearly a top fighter.

 

Round 1 Even
Round 2 Parker
Round 3 Zhang 10-8
Round 4 Parker
Round 5 Parker
Round 6 Parker
Round 7 Zhang
Round 8 Zhang 10-8
Round 9 Parker
Round 10 Parker
Round 11 Parker
Round 12 Parker

115-112 Parker

 

Chisora has called it a draw although he admitted earlier that he wasn't scoring the fight...

Bunce has it a draw as well.

 

114 -112 Parker. I could see it going either way though as there were a ton of swing rounds.

 

Great fight by Parker. I had him splitting the first 2 rounds and winning every round he wasn't knocked down in. Could be a draw but I think Parker won this.

 

I have the same scorecard.

 

This went a lot like Zhangs fight with Forrest

 

Parker won this. Zhang didn’t even make any effort to finish strong. He’ll be very fortunate to escape with a draw.

 

No gas tank Zhang lost this. Hell even his corner knows it when they told him he needs a KO.

 

If Zhang came in 20 pounds lighter he would've KO'd Parker.

 

It was definitely a bad showing by both sides. Zhang looks to be done at this level, and Parker showed his fragility.

 

He really was just in a bad place at the time.
I remember discussing here with some Kiwi on how Parker was clearly regressing as a boxer.
The Joyce KO seems to truly have awoken something in him. Rare to see this in boxing. Two back to back upsets at world level is not something we see often. And Parker outboxed both men, clearly.
One hell of a career turnaround.

 

Parker needs to get that Joyce rematch now.