Parker

edabomb · Apr 1, 2018

Brighton bomber said: ↑

Yes I said the same after the Fury fight. His defence is much better than before he uses head and upper body movement to be elusive, he totally took away Joshua's right hand. I think Joshua landed 2-3 decent right hands last night he simply wasn't there to be hit by the right hand most of the time.

And yes you hit it exactly on the nail with Parker's deficiencies last night. He can make guys miss but can't make them pay for it yet. He needs to work on his counter punching and most improtantly being in positions to counter after he slips a shot. Usually when he slips a shot he isn't in the right position to fire back, he had to take a punch to land a punch all too often last night.

He struggled to get inside, he was on the end of Joshua's jab most of the night, when he did have success it was after Joshua had come in and hit him allowing Parker in range to let his hands go in response. But when Joshua was keeping it long he just couldn't land. Parker needs to either learn to do what Povetkin does and cut off the ring and get off first by rushing taller opponents or learn to slip into counter punching positions when he does slip so he can counter. If he doesn't do one of these things he'll always struggle to mount any meaningful offense which is why he's had so many close fights.
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Completely agree. His current method of slipping is largely by transferring his weight back which is never going to give him a foundation to counter.

It will take some real courage to start slipping side to side in the SHW division - but the rewards would be there. One thing is for sure Barry won't be the trainer to show him that.

Barry being the manager of his team would make sense though as he is great with media.

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