This fight was actually Joshua's best win and best performance. He's never performed as well as Fury did against Wlad, that's the truth. He probably never will. Yeah, heavyweights are often boring. That's always been true. Joshua's actually becoming less exciting due to the fact he's stepping up and improving. Excitement means almost getting knocked out by an old 41 years has-been. Of course, his fans like to go on about how great that was vis-à-vis Fury-Wlad, but Joshua and his trainer McCracken sure as hell know it's not the way to go to stay undefeated. They're not stupid. Credit Joshua for actually being good enough to defeat a boxer like Parker. Problem is, his "fans" spent so much time telling us he'd destroy Parker easily, there's some confusion over the fact he actually put on his best performance against his best opponent to date.
Fury thst fought Chisora in 2md fight and who fought Vlad was a different league to any version of Joshua we have seen so far. Joshua beat Parker but I had it pretty close and if ref let Parker get close to AJ then he wouldnt have had to stay on outside falling short with most of his shots.