HAS PARKER's WEIGHT HAMPERED his POWER?

I think it had. Didn't think he had that raw speed and pop recently. Don't get me wrong he can still bang, but they do need him at around 235lb or 105kg odd.

 

Problem is that given his age he still had some naturally filling out to do so it may be impossible to get down again in weight..

 

nope its his opposition imo not his weight

with the exception of sherman williams who will not lay down for anyone he fought domestic level fighters and imported bodies brought in to lay down.

yes he has good power at that level but no matter how hard you hit your power is not as evident when you step up.

for one fighters arw harder to hot
two they fight back and your ouptput has to drop

i watched parker in that tournament 5 round / i forget its name when he was in against small but competent fighters / he was about 21 from memory
he was carrying extra flesh then and weighed 220 something i think

could not put a dent in thise fighters after 15 rounds.

parker has great handspeed / and decent power / but he is an accumilation puncher only

takam/ruiz jnr/corjanu/fury/

none of them were even staggered or close to going down / and all 4 were landed on by parker.

parker needs to straighten up his punches / with his speed they will do more damage than the wide volleys he throws.

he will need straight down the pipe shots v joshua who keeps a high guard and uses big arms to block the hooks.

where parker has a chance is when joshua fights fire with fire / his defense comes down and if parker can land a left hook with full body torque when joshua is throwing himself this will magnify parkers power and with his quick hands he can fire off shots before joshua can recover or tie up.

but tit for tat trading on the outside parkers power IMO is not going to budge joshua much.

 

Looks like Parker's limitations are finally being realised by even his biggest fans.....

 

Hopefully it makes a difference - I don't think it will be massive but it all helps. I think the fight plan is to goad Joshua into punching himself out.

Parker against Fury just showed how far off he was IMO. Even with Fury running all night he still had chances to land but they were really clumsy and often glancing or parrying off other limbs of Fury. So it seems to me any boxer with decent movement is going to give him huge trouble with landing a KO.

 

I thought their was rumours of some kind of shoulder injury with parker. Could be hampering his power. Seems to me that hes started changing his tactics a bit as the competitions went up to be able to last the twelve rounds by the looks of it. Not seen loads of parker but he seems to not vary his punch speed anymore. Every punch is the same as the last. Trainers trying to be a bit too smart for his own good. "These fighters are better now let's make sure we last the twelve and don't blow ourselves out". Could be with the level going up that can sometimes happen but he always seemed a lot more heavy handed before. He's become a bit too predictable with his punch power recently. Needs to start mixing it up again starting with Joshua.

 

I am pretty certain Hughie was partly just making himself a very hard target to hit and it's to say that other fighters wouldn't have similar issues. Parker DID rock Hughie a bit a couple of times, Hughie grabbed for all the things but looked a bit like if he was in the middle of the ring out of reach of Joe then he may have done a little bit of a funny dance.

 

The arm injury must have hampered Parker both in his fights and preparation for them. That much is logical.

The extra pounds can't have assisted his speed and more than likely has hindered it.

Extra pounds don't usually diminish power and some heavyweights choose to carry extra weight with the belief it increases their power. But the spanner in the works to factor in in Parker's case is the injury and what effect it has had on his power.

 

I’m by no means an expert but it looks like a technique issue. In the Hughie fight especially he was really swinging the right hand with little accuracy, and even when it did land it was more of an arm punch than anything. Imo he needs to straighten up and draw his power from his speed, rather than lunging in with his head down hoping to hit something.

 

If anything his weight gave him more power. But for what? By missing his opponents?

Speed, Timing and precision beats power anytime.

 

Parkers opponents of sizeable weight known to take or proven to take good punches he's failed to K.O at his lighter and heavier 240's weight.

He was 231 against Williams
He was 235 against Takam
He was 246 against Ruiz
He was 246 against Cojanu
He was 245 against Fury

Parker did K.O Meehan at 236

Meehan had a decent chin and sizeable but he was also on his retirement bed.

Parker only has one stoppage after round 5 as well.

All this adds up to what I've been posting on here. I've already broken all this down...I'll just say he should be slightly below 240 and work on actually setting up the punch so it actually connects where its supposed too.

If he is incapable of refining little things that make the huge difference he better get back to 230/ 235 and rely on just more speed , BC at heavier stronger weight he's telegraphing everything still and he's slower....thus less effective BC his technique are hindering him and making fights more difficult.