Ridiculous scoring, home field advantage.

So are you trying to tell me that my ears are lying when i heard parker say the best man won??, yeah parker may not have like the ref but how many fighters have lost and complained about the ref? Unfortunately happens all the time and will do, thats how boxing works a lot of the time, house fighter and all that, ive seen plenty of refs that separate fighters when they even look like they might start grabbing, even a little bit, i like to see inside fighting so i think the ref should let them at it now and then but parker would not have won that fight even if he handpicked his own ref (imo)

 

If Parker beat Joshua then Fury beat Parker.

 

So would you agree that using just compubox to score a fight is disingenuous?

 

easy not to gas never stepping out of first or second gear. AJ found out though that if he doesn't step it up, he'll go to decisions and that cannot continue if he wants to keep the money train going at the maximum level.

 

Maybe not. But with an honest ref, it would at least have been a fair fight.

 

very true but parker fought a cagey fight and joshua would have had to do what he did v klitchko in the 11th

come out / walk through the opponent / not worry about anything coming back and go for it.

i would like to have seen him do that when he had parker near the ropes / but he fought saftey first.

if the opponent is not wilder next / we will have to see if the public still rush to fill a stadium.

i suspect in the uk as long as he is undefeated he will sell out / but its not a given

as you indicated ko artists put bums on seats.

 

i happened to type in bad referee in boxing and the marin v agbeko fight came up in vegas
i must have missed that fight.

robin reid v ottke was terrible but the ref in this fight was married to marin1s sister/ had a huge bet on marin to win / and had persuaded marin to elope and get married to him after the fight

meanwhile agbeko had to have surgery for his swollen balls to which the police promptly arrested him while under anesthetic for indecent exposure

it was as blatant cheating at boxing by a ref and fighter combined as you will ever see .