And scored it like the 1st time - 117:111 for AJ. It wasn't an exciting fight, but still a good learning experience for both fighters, AJ has faced his quickest opponent to date and had to deal with speed of Parker. AJ's first 12-round fight that went full distance and his stamina was OK. Obviously losing 12 lbs was right decision for AJ. Parker will learn a lot from this fight too, he's only 26 and has no speed/chin/stamina issues, still he has the things to work on. Maybe he'd try to hire a new trainer with whom he can improve. If you rewatched this fight post your scores too.
I'm not watching that again, but I thought it was pretty close, and so many rounds were essentially even which you could score whichever way your bias took you.
I rewatched it again and scored it the same, 117-111. Second time around I noticed Joshua's jab was even more dominant than I expected. Joshua also did better in those rounds he lost in the middle when Parker tried to rallly and put some pressure on AJ. Another thing I notice was how Joshua consistently worked the body, especially with the jab. He actually landed more body shots than Parker. Will be interesting to see how Joshua's body work effects Wilder as everyone so far has just tried to head hunt vs Wilder.
First time around, and watching with a **** stream, I scored it 116-112 to Joshua. Second time around in HD, I realized Parker didn't land as much as I thought, and so I scored 117-111 funny enough.
Depends whether you score Parker landing....or just throwing. That's the difference between a close fight and a comfortable/wide UD. Joshua's guard > Parker's, which won the 'jab battle'.
Here's the thing..... How can anyone claim who won if they don't actually count the punches? Parker won 2 rounds...that was 7 and 9 and that was minimal as most rounds were. Jabs are not considered important punches unless its a close fight, judging criteria will add the effective power shots first and head shots before body shots. I personally only count power body shots which is not just jabbing with the lead hand BC I call that tag. Also holding and hitting is not counted. Either way Joshua did land the less SIGNIFICANT body shots but controlled the fight with out jabbing Parker, pushing him back and was NEVER out landed in head shots in any round. Replays show this like round 6 , where Parkers shots miss, many judges miss this BC of crowd reaction...the hard truth is Parker barely touched AJ . Claiming this fight is even close to a draw is nonsense and laughable, the total punch count of clear shots landed to the head isn't even close. You don't count grazed or blocked shots! I think ppl forgot how to score fights, ring generalship and effective aggression are a major criteria. The fight wasn't remotely close when you add up the actual rounds won. This was Joshua's lowest punch output but credit to Parker for making him hesitant but AJ coasted this one in a fight he was staying just ahead of Parker one round at a time, he felt no need to try and end it.
I would disagree about Parker not having stamina issues. He was moving his head and disrupting Joshua's jab while countering Joshua in the middle rounds. However, in rounds 10-12 his mobility went way down and he stopped throwing as many punches. Parker should definitely be around 220-225 max, since he was clearly out of shape at 236 and gassed because of it. Joshua also still looked really green to me. He telegraphs his uppercut too much and his jab was too predictable. He also still doesn't move his head, which is why he got dropped in the Wlad fight. But, he did pace himself much better than he did in previous fights.
