BGM #2 Joseph Parker stuns Deontay Wilder, boxing world with one-sided victory

BGM #2
Joseph Parker stuns Deontay Wilder, boxing world with one-sided victory

Forget Deontay Wilder vs. Anthony Joshua. Wilder could be finished as an elite fighter.

Joseph Parker did a brilliant job of avoiding Wilder’s vaunted right hand and more than enough offensively to win a one-sided decision in a battle of former heavyweight titleholders Saturday night in Saudi Arabia.

The official scores were 120-108, 118-110 and 118-111. Boxing Junkie scored it 118-110 for Parker, 10 rounds to two.

“Coming into this fight, everyone had other plans, but this is God’s plan,” Parker said. “Today, what a win. Merry Christmas to us.”

Parker hurt Wilder only once — the result of an overhand right last in Round 8 — but his inability to put him down or knock him out didn’t detract from a dominating performance.

Wilder gave kudos to Parker afterward.

“He did a great job avoiding a lot of my punches,” Wilder said. “We make no excuses tonight. It was a good fight, and we move on to the next thing.”

The victory was one of the biggest in the career of Parker, who has won four consecutive fights since he was stopped by Joe Joyce in September of last year.

He’s now in a strong position to fight for a major title in the coming year.

Meanwhile, Wilder (43-3-1, 42 KOs) had fought only one round in the past two years, his first-round knockout of Robert Helenius in October of last year. That followed back-to-back knockout losses to Tyson Fury, which might’ve taken something out of the 38-year-old.

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