Joseph Parker plan on showing Flores his mean side this Saturday
Former WBA champion, Joseph Parker (24-2, 18 KOs) plans on showing his mean side of his psyche when he faces Alexander Flores (17-1-1, 15 KOs) this Saturday night, December 15 at the Horncastle Arena, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Parker, 26, is hoping he will use this to end his 2-fight losing streak.
Parker isn’t happy about his recent 12 round unanimous decision defeat from the hands of Dillian Whyte (24-1, 17 KOs) last summer on July 28.
Parker could have won the fight, but he allowed Whyte to rough him up, and foul him without responding. The referee Ian John Lewis showed early on that he was going to let all the fouls go, and let the two fighters fight in an MMA type of style. Things got a little out of hand when Lewis gave Whyte credit for a knockdown in which he lowered his head and ran forward and collided into Parker that caused him to fall down on the canvas. Lewis shockingly scored it as a knockdown. That ruling set the tone for the entire fight with Whyte getting away with fouling and Parker doing nothing to check him on it.
Despite Whyte getting away with murder with his roughhouse tactics, he still barely won the fight in winning by the scores 114-111, 115-110 and 113-112. Parker put Whyte down on the canvas in the 12th, and had him hurt as the fight ended.
“Listen, it’s good to be the nice guy, but nice guys don’t always get the job done,” Parker said to skysports.com. “Now it’s time to be the guy that’s going to put on the pressure, the guy that’s going to be rough and tough. It’s time to maybe change my demeanor going into fights,” Parker said.
