Higgins and DUCO to appeal Dillian Whyte loss, produce 4 minute video evidence

A bit hypocritical after what their man Horn did to Pac.

 

Your all missing a very important point - all the judges scored round 2 10-8 to whyte, this was obviously incorrect as there was no knockdown.

The appeal won’t go anywhere, but you can’t blame them for trying.

 

Lol

This is correct but Parker was so passive at the time it was hard to tell. Regardless IJL's performance should be under the spotlight as he has had yet another shocker. Should it have been a knockdown? Probably not. Should Whyte have been deducted a point? Maybe. Did Parker do enough to win the fight conclusively? No.

 

They should have gone ballistic at the night of the fight.
I think Higgins wasn't even watching the fight !

Can't believe how much some of you are justifying the long catalogue of unpenalized fouls though.
Some of you have clearly been brainwashed by the Whyte team and by the SKY commentary team.
They all said before the fight they would fight dirty, YES, but that doesn't mean the referee should have accepted that and done nothing to stop it !
It doesn't make it right.
This isn't about whether or not Whyte was sensible to fight like that, nor is it about whether Parker clean sportsmanlike fighting lacks something needed in pro boxing.
This is about terrible refereeing and total lack of enforcing the rules of the sport.

If this happened to a British fighter abroad in Germany or the USA most of you would be whining your heads off about corruption.

 

"It's boxing" said Tony Bellew.

No, actually, repeatedly rushing an opponent with a body-check move over the ropes isn't even remotely boxing.

maybe it's Rugby ?
MMA ? Wrestling ?
Ice Hockey ?

 

According to Tony Bellew no one has ironed out Carlos Takam before.

This absolute tool ruins most fights with his obviously biased commentary. The man is so contradictory in what he says from one card to the next it's embarrassing.

 

Parker's team should just be asking for a rematch.
Appealing to overturning the decision is pointless, since the boxing authorities never overturn decisions. Yes, it should have been a DRAW on the score cards, and perhaps the rules should be changed where called knockdowns can be ignored or scrapped when the video evidence shows it to be a bad call. But that doesn't happen.

 

Having said that, asking for a rematch is pointless too.
Whyte won't go near Parker again.
Whyte barely survived the fight and needed that dodgy 10-8 in the second round to get the win on the cards.

Considering that everyone is in agreement that Parker handicapped himself by fighting too clean, shouldn't we just conclude that Parker is actually, if anything, the superior fighter.
That's what Whyte's team will conclude.

Whyte had every advantage and was fortunate to get the win. Whyte was using his full arsenal of legal and illegal tactics, and with a hometown referee on his side. Every in his favour and barely won it.
Parker was disadvantaged by being too clean, had a referee against him and a corner too slow to effectively protest it, and was still unfortunate to lose.

 

The referee actually picked an exhausted Dillian Whyte up by the neck at one point, when Dillian's gloves were on the canvas.
This was a hometown hatchet-job. A textbook example of hometown bias.

And I actually suspect David Higgins was in on it. He came to the UK moaning about officiating again …… but then his acceptance of Ian John Lewis in the pre-fight statements and his acceptance of the job he did immediately post-fight suggest he was being persuaded by Hearn to stay silent on any bad officiating for the immediate time around the fight.

It is what it is.
Higgins decided the Matchroom/UK money is the be all and end all, and basically shafted his own fighter here.
He allows Hearn to do all the work and dictate and because the money's so good.

Whyte's team were smart by desensitizing everyone in pre-fight statements to the tactics they were about to employ. When you tell everyone you're going to fight rough and dirty as a smart boxing strategy, it's a smart psychological move.
When the bell rings and you unleash a constant barrage of unpenalized fouls, the viewers are already inclined to think "that's just the way he fights", "that's the style that works here", "this is good tactics" ….. instead of being outraged by the referee's complete failure to enforce the Queensberry rules.

 

Of course, Parker's problem IS that New Zealand doesn't have the money in boxing to bring the big fights over.
If he could fight Dillian in New Zealand he would get a nice wide hometown decision or a fair or unfair DQ win over a desperate fouling Whyte, if he can't TKO him ….. but that's never going to happen.
He's always going to have to come back to the UK or go to the US or somewhere for the biggest paydays and fights.

 

Decisions in boxing never get overturned

If you feel that you are being fouled in the ring then you need to fight fire with fire. Fouls get settled in the ring.

So Parker being a little girl and not settling this in the ring is one of the reasons he lost the fight. Other reasons being he is too passive. Another being he has got stale under his current set up, and is extremely predictable and easy to read.

 

That would be great but I doubt it.
Whyte's probably being promised the world by Matchroom right now, I even suspect he'll fight AJ in front of 100,000 in April.
They'll feed him Charr if they can before then.

Whyte would probably LOSE to Parker if they fought again.
Everyone agrees that Whyte threw everything he had at Parker, legal and illegal, did everything he could …… everyone agrees Parker was too gentlemanly and gassed and sloppy for much of the fight ...… but the end result was Whyte winning lucky on the scorecards and barely survived the fight.

People talk about Parker having an uncomfortable night, but when the dust settles I'm pretty sure it will be Whyte's team that will be thinking they don't want that work again.

 

It's the referees job to enforce the rules.
Fouls are supposed to be penalized. The referee called loads of Whyte fouls, gave him several "warnings", and did nothing.
Fair enough, you can criticize Parker for being too gentlemanly, but what about the referee ?

It's the referee who's the weak ***** here, it's the referee who didn't have the balls to deduct a point, it's the referee who is unfit to be in that ring.
Let's not get it twisted.

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Honestly, the masses of British fans have clearly been lapping up the SKY/Matchroom propaganda on this fight. Total brainwashing.

Whyte was extremely lucky to get a win here.
Dozens of unpenalized fouls, rewarded 2-3 points for a headbutt knockdown, and exhausted at the end on the brink of being stopped.
And the British fans have been taught to respond with "Parker's just a whining little girl".

No one stops to think, "Hey, maybe Adam Smith, Bellew, Hearn, Froch et al. talking out their backsides ..... this might actually be some very dodgy crooked officiating and a hometown gift"

It it happened to a British fighter in Germany, Argentina or USA, you'd all be outraged.
It would be considered a scandal.