Joseph Parker has criticised the choice to cease his battle with Fabio Wardley and mentioned that he ought to have been allowed to proceed.
Referee Howard Foster halted Parker on his ft within the Eleventh spherical as Wardley set about him.
Parker seemed to be on his technique to victory in a battle which had been intensely contested all through and the previous WBO heavyweight world champion is satisfied that he ought to have been allowed to hold on.
“I felt fine when they stopped the fight,” Parker mentioned afterwards. “I wanted to carry on.
“I believed I used to be wonderful however I am not the ref,” he added. “We went on the market and gave it our greatest and he received.”
Foster was additionally the referee within the first battle between Carl Froch and George Groves, that turned well-known, or notorious relying on the way you have a look at it, for an allegedly untimely stoppage.
When the stoppage got here within the Eleventh spherical of the Wardley battle, Parker was leaning again into the ropes. He seemed damage and crucially the New Zealander wasn’t throwing again.
He and his staff although felt Parker was managing to dam a variety of large incoming punches. Nonetheless if, in that second, the referee thought it was solely the ropes that had been holding him up, leaving him trapped and open to pictures, that may be a harmful place for a boxer to be in.
Wardley in truth noticed the incident fairly otherwise and argued that Foster ought to even have intervened sooner.
The Ipswich man did admit that when he was pushing for that end he did see it as a “now or never moment”.
“Maybe the ref could have called it a couple of shots earlier,” Wardley urged of the battle.
“I knew that if I caught him I could keep the gas on, keep the pressure on. I’ve trained extremely hard for this. I’m extremely well-conditioned. I knew all I had to do was get my shots off and stay in front of him, keep landing punches.
“I used to be in between staying composed and letting my fingers go however I believed it was a little bit of a now or by no means second. I knew I in all probability wasn’t up on the playing cards but it surely did not faze me, it did not trouble me, I did not thoughts that in any respect.”
Wardley thought the battle may even have been stopped sooner.
He identified that earlier within the battle, within the second spherical, he had Parker beneath actual strain, which was solely relieved when Parker’s gumshield fell from his mouth. That paused the competition so the mouthpiece may very well be rinsed and restored.
Wardley mentioned of Parker: “He’s 40 fights in, you pick up little cute tricks like that, little ways to save yourself and buy yourself some extra time.
“Within the second after all it is aggravating. However it does not deter me, it does not put me off, if something it spurred me to know that you just wanted a breather there, you wanted a break and I damage you.
“All that did was spur me on to know that through the fight all I have to do is get to you and I can get you out of there.”
Parker desires to resolve the controversy with a rematch.
“He’s a tough man,” Parker mentioned of Wardley. “He showed that he’s a warrior. All I can say is congratulations and wish him all the best for what’s next. Hopefully we can have a rematch.
“Now he is shifting on to an even bigger battle,” he continued. “I will proceed to go on.
“I felt I had him many times but he showed character. He showed his toughness and he kept coming back. So I give credit to him for being able to take those shots and bounce back.
“I wish to go once more.”
