When the ref gives a fighter an unfair advantage

I think Crawford is too far above Horn for the ref to be a factor.

 

For years Wlad was criticised for just leaning on opponents.

Now that option has been taken away from Joshua fans complain still.

 

It was Parker who benefitted from the referee not allowing inside fighting.

 

AJ would have ended the fight with an uppercut had the ref not prevented them from in fighting. Shocking ref.

 

What point? The ref didn`t do AJ any favours with breaking the fighters all the time. There is another point?

 

The referee in the Joshua/Parker fight was awful, did step in too many times.

But it didn't favour one fighter over the other. Joshua was having success at times as well on the inside only for the ref to intervene. Like at the end of the 8th, he lands a solid left hook, right hand, then an uppercut as Parker tries and smothers him and the ref jumps in. They were not clinching, Joshua was having a good spell and ref spoils it.

If anything I think Joshua would of liked to work more on the inside when given the chance. Joshua tried to create space inside as he usually does by using his left forearm to push Parker away but Parker would just duck under the forearm and then force a clinch with Joshua leaning down on Parkers neck, ref would of course then step in. It honestly was the smart thing for Parker to do as he would of been squared up with Joshua levering him into position for that uppercut. But it doesn't change the fact he was the one causing a lot of the clinching by coming underneath the forearm.

 

And if Joshua was able to clinch for 12 rounds?

 

True it's hard to know for sure who would of truly benefited from allowing the fight to be fought more in close, we can only hypothesis.

But it's clear there was one guy looking to fight more on the inside than the other and that was AJ. He was the one coming forward, he was the one looking to engage more and it was Parker who was ducking under AJ's left forearm to initiate the clinch.

Most of the exchanges started one way. Joshua gets in close, unloads, Parker fires back, ref steps in before they can really get to work. Joshua was initiating the inside work the majority of the time while Parker was content to let him come and fire back counter flurries.

 

there is no other point. he was hoping the AJ haters would jump on and complain. but non did.
the real fans actually realized that the ref didn't benefit either AJ or Parker. he just made it a cleaner fight