Parker is going to destroy Whyte.

Honestly, I don't really know how good each fighter really is based on their past opposition. I'd lean towards Parker because of his awkward style, but it should be worth watching to find out

 

I think you're certainly in the minority though. I do agree that neither really landed much in the way of meaningful punches, but when scoring a fight on effective aggression, landed punches and ring generalship, I find it difficult to give Parker more than 4 rounds. Neither guys aggression was particularly effective, but Parker pretty much had zero aggression, was out-landed despite throwing a lot more and was fighting Joshua's fight. Okay, the ref played a part in that by breaking them, but I honestly think that favoured Parker more, as Joshua is a much better inside fighter.

 

Parker by close decision. Whyte has tightened up his boxing skills since the Chisora fight but beating a deflated Browne made him look way better than he really is.
Parker will run away it by stick n moving and potshotting. Whyte has to land body shots early and drag him into a dog fight if he is to win

 

I never watched the parker aj fight twice but i remember i was routing for parker and thus trying to give him any round i could, all i remember is thinking it wasn't even a close fight, i had AJ winning easily.

 

AJ for sure won

Which is why Whyte will lose.

Very motivational

 

Scoring is subjective to a degree, you could massively outland your opponent with power punches, but done over 3 rounds it wont win you the fight. There were a lot of closer rounds on paper in terms of landed shots, with AJ generally landing at a higher connect %, therefore to me if the connects are close, I'd lean towards the more accurate fighter (I'll caveat that with, unless the less accurate fighter is clearly landing much harder and telling blows).

Either way, the fight was a big let down, I'd thought Parker would have had a plan B, but I think he came in, got a taste of the power and his plan B became his plan A. His team must have known he was well down on the cards and needed to light a fire under his ass, but there was no impetus to take the fight to Joshua. To me that says Parker was all too wary of his power and would rather take a points loss than go out on his shield. He seems a genuinely nice guy, but that niceness is in the ring too. Guys like Joshua and Lewis always come over well outside the ring, but make no mistake, in the ring they genuinely seem to enjoy hurting people. I think to be a champ you need that killer instinct.

I have a question mark over Parkers heart, if Whyte's power he feels is enough to stop him at some stage, he could just go into his shell and Whyte cannot cut the ring off. We'll end up with a stink fest.

 

if it turns out to big a stinker and goes to points I doubt Hearn will want to give either a rematch with AJ

usually these big fights turn out to be disappointing and don't live up to the hype, I hope I'm wrong though

I'm rooting for whyte but I think parker has the goods to get him out of there late

 

IMO: AJ won the fight because he used his jab very effective especially in the second half of the fight.

He landed 93/270 jabs (34,4%) while Parker landed only 49/316 jabs (15,5%).

Of course it was a close fight because both didn't land any significant and no one was really hurt during the fight + the ref was doing a terrible job at the inside so Parker couldn't do much damage there but landing 15% of the throwing jabs is a weak number and if we are considering there was not much fighting at the inside the jab was one of the main reasons why Joshua won clearly.

 

FWIW - AJ won for me but way closer than official scorecards

Anyway, I think and HOPE Parker wins. I really cannot stand Whyte

 

I had it 116-112 for Joshua, and I favor Parker over Joshua all day. All the rounds were very close though, no way do the official scorecards reflect how close of a fight it was. When Parker beats Whyte, im most definitely interested in Joshua vs Parker 2.

 

This all depends on how Parker approaches the fight, it really does.

Parker will have to win rounds clearly, I mean very clearly because in my opinion any round remotely close (even if Parker edges it) will go to Whyte.

Or Parker will have to actually go for the stoppage, Whyte is game and somewhat tough but has been hurt before, Chisora hurt him badly and I don't regard Chisora as much of a puncher so Parker winning by stoppage is not out of the question.


When the fight was made I went with Parker, that was my initial thought, as time has gone on I'm less confident because of what I've heard from Parker, he is talking about using his boxing skills and believes he fought a "smart fight" against Joshua.

I am getting the feeling Parker will box more than fight and I have seen too many Matchroom hometown decisions to be confident Parker will get a decision on a PPV card, in the UK against a UK fighter who is being lined up for AJ.