‘Most one-sided heavyweight fight I’ve seen’: Joseph Parker hailed after win over Deontay Wilder

Certainly one of world boxing’s main promoters has referred to as Deontay Wilder’s upset loss Joseph Parker as “essentially the most one-sided heavyweight combat I’ve ever seen”.

Eddie Hearn, Anthony Joshua’s promoter, pretty much as good as admitted Parker’s unanimous factors victory in Saudi Arabia on Saturday (Sunday NZ time) had thrown a spanner within the works for Joshua’s proposed combat with Wilder in March.

“It was essentially the most one-sided heavyweight combat I’ve ever seen, it’s ruined our plans,’’ Hearn stated in a ringside interview after Parker’s win and earlier than Joshua’s fifth spherical victory over Otto Wallin within the headline bout on the ‘Day of Reckoning’ card.

Revered boxing author Donald McRae urged in The Guardian that Parker could possibly be Joshua’s subsequent opponent.

“Joshua might want to show that he can produce a efficiency of comparable authority towards far superior opposition to Wallin,” McRae wrote.

“Parker is the apparent subsequent step however that potential rematch between the 2 males would once more be a threat for Joshua.”

McRae stated: “Drama and hubris, these acquainted staples of boxing, returned to the ring in Riyadh when the closely favoured” Wilder misplaced to Parker.

“In an embarrassingly one-sided combat, with Wilder wanting a shell of his former self as his technical flaws have been accentuated extra graphically than ever earlier than, Parker boxed with composure and perception to obtain the unanimous verdict by overwhelming margins of 118-111, 118-110 and 120-108.”

Ladies’s world featherweight champion Amanda Serrano took to social media to say: “Horrible efficiency by Wilder. I gave him NOT a single spherical.”

The Every day Mail reported that some social media posters have been stunned by 38-year-old Wilder’s skinny legs, with one writing: “Wilder’s legs are like 2 McDonald’s straws’’.

The DAZN sports activities streaming platform stated there had been stories of Wilder and Joshua “lastly doing battle subsequent 12 months’’ if each “emerged victorious in Riyadh”.

However, the Parker consequence “not solely throws a spanner within the phrases there, however casts an enormous shadow over the assertion made by some that Wilder and Tyson Fury have been a degree above Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk within the heavyweight pecking order”.

DAZN praised Parker for executing “the proper gameplan to neutralise Wilder’s punch energy and go away the American struggling”.

Parker “dominated all through the combat,’’ claimed the Every day Mail, “and almost regarded to deal Wilder his first stoppage defeat since Tyson Fury in 2021 after an enormous flurry within the eighth spherical”.

“The New Zealander didn’t maintain again as he charged ahead and threw a mixture of left and proper hooks in direction of Wilder, who stumbled backwards in hope of surviving.

“It’s honest to say that Parker’s dominance was coming, after dominating the prior seven rounds towards the American.”

The BBC felt Parker’s success was not shocking, saying the Kiwi was “on a run of three straight wins and two knockouts” and was “demonstrating simply why many pundits tipped him for the win’’.

Parker, it claimed, was “the busier, extra correct boxer, comfortably profitable most rounds’’ and felt Wilder was “telegraphing his proper palms’’ whereas Parker “continued to land extra cleanly because the combat entered the championship rounds”.