Parker vs Flores

[diehard]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/combat-sports/109384857/joseph-parker-knocks-alexander-flores-out-in-heavyweight-clash

[Ibeabuchi]

(12-16-2018, 12:16 AM)mippy Wrote: Can Flores contest that decision? He was clearly hit low before the first knockdown, and never recovered.

wasnt low at all, open your eyes. Joe finally shows some mongrel and people arent happy

[Ibeabuchi]

(12-16-2018, 12:21 AM)Kiwi Wrote: Sounds like a fairly woeful fight

What really was the point? Browne or Whyte rematch next - we hope

do you watch boxing? after the year hes had thats the perfect confidence builder. All fighters have them mate

[Ibeabuchi]

and if Fa had signed the contract that would have been him on the canvas. If those two ever meet I worry about Juniors health

[diehard]

Parker looked strong and put his combos together well. Very different fighter from before. Be interested to see if he can do it against better competition.

That said, Joe hit him low at least three times, and was warned by Rebel each time. The last low blows were two low blows followed by the knockout. So the low blows set up the KO. I'm sure Flores will protest, and it could be ruled a DQ and no contest, or a DQ against Joe and Flores wins. Boxing being boxing, I'm sure it'll be ruled a KO win by Parker.

Bad look for Joe. If it were reversed, and Flores did it to Parker, I'd be royalty pissed. Even KB still complains about Whyte's headbutt costing Joe the fight.

I think Parker set out to prove he's not Mr Nice Guy, and as he and KB said, they've been practicing it on sparring partners. And he took it into this fight. It's one thing to retaliate, another to just be a dirty figher. Tonight, Joe was a dirty fighter.

[Ibeabuchi]

look closely nowhere near low

[Ibeabuchi]

and everyone in here after the Whyte fight said he needed to stop playing nice and get a little mongrel in him...which is it?

[diehard]

Boxing: Joseph Parker knocks out Alexander Flores in the third round victory

Joseph Parker knocks out Alexander Flores. PhotosportJoseph Parker knocks out Alexander Flores. Photosport
Patrick McKendry

He promised to bring an edge, a little mongrel if you like, and Joseph Parker certainly did that when knocking out Alexander Flores in the third round of their fight in Christchurch tonight.

There will inevitably be some controversy attached to this stoppage by Parker because it came soon after a low blow, the second of the short fight, and Flores had dropped his hands when Parker's right hand knocked him to the canvas.

Flores beat referee John Conway's count and the official immediately called a time out and warned Parker for hitting below the belt. Once the action resumed Parker went in for the kill in a savage burst which had his Mexican-American on the floor and in some trouble.

It was Parker's first knockout victory in just over two years and it was just what he needed as he starts his comeback from two consecutive losses.

He entered the ring looking physically superior to Flores and the power part of his training has clearly paid dividends – as did a harder and more ruthless attitude.

After being on the end of some questionable tactics in his points defeat to Dillian Whyte, Parker, now 25-2 as a professional, has clearly decided to dish out a bit of his own rough stuff.

Apart from the two low blows, Parker occasionally held and hit Flores, which is illegal, as well as going in with elbows raised.

Flores said in the ring afterwards: "He hit me with a low blow. I felt it and I put my hand down… he hit me low three or four times. I think the ref warned him once. It is what it is – I'm fighting in his home town."

When asked about the low blows, Parker said: "I'm the fighter. There's a ref who does his job, and the judges. All I do is throw the punches and make them land.

"We finished the year on a high and now it's time to have a break.

"Alexander seems to think I hit him low three or four times. I know I hit him low once but that's the fight game.

"We had two losses this year and this is the fight we wanted to end the year with – a bang. We wanted the kockout and we got it.

Parker's trainer Kevin Barry said: "We were badly looking for a knockout to end the year with and I thought Joe looked tremendous tonight.

"There's a lot of frustration in Joseph Parker tonight… we had a big year but… came up short and Joe really wanted to let his hands go and get the knockout."

Flores looked technically good in the first round but only his head movement kept from being hit by several right hands.

Parker was prepared to wear a couple coming in and his speed and power were clearly on a different level.

It was a similar story in the second round as Parker loaded up his right hand; it was just missing, but a low left to the body late in the round didn't, and Flores, scoring occasionally with a sneaky right hand over the top, was given a short time out to compose himself.

In the main undercard fight, Junior Fa retained his WBO oriental heavyweight title and extended his unbeaten record to 16 wins when demolishing Argentine Rogelio Omar Rossi in the first round.

Former Kiwi and Warriors league player Manu Vatuvei got his professional boxing career off to the best possible start with a 28-second stoppage of Dave Letele.

Heavyweight Vatuvei was caught with a right hand early but responded with a three-punch combination, including a massive uppercut, which knocked Letele through the ropes. Letele beat the count but the referee called it off.

Cruiserweight David Light stretched his undefeated record to 11 wins with an impressive second-round stoppage of Lance Bryant.

[diehard]

(12-16-2018, 12:43 AM)Ibeabuchi Wrote: look closely nowhere near low

Read the article. Even Parker said he hit him low, as did commentators at ringside.

[Ibeabuchi]

(12-16-2018, 12:47 AM)diehard Wrote:

(12-16-2018, 12:43 AM)Ibeabuchi Wrote: look closely nowhere near low

Read the article.  Even Parker said he hit him low, as did commentators at ringside.

after all the shit he put up with in the Whyte fight and the way he was hammered over here for playing nice I dont give a fuck if he hit the man high on the hip bone, it was nowhere near a golota/gatti low blow. When Joe puts it on guys they want an out