Review by AllTheBestFights.com: 2016-10-01, some good exchanges but with a disappointing finish: Joseph Parker vs Alexander Dimitrenko gets two stars.The undefeated Joseph Parker entered this fight with a perfect boxing record of 20-0-0 (17 KOs=85%) and he is ranked as the No.8 heavyweight in the world (currently the #1 in this division is Tyson Fury). He has already fought three times in 2016 winning over Jason Bergman (=Parker vs Bergman), Carlos Takam (=Parker vs Takam) and Solomon Haumono (=Parker vs Haumono).
His opponent, Alexander Dimitrenko, has an official record of 38-2-0 (24 knockouts) and he entered as the No.47 in the same weight class. He suffered his last loss when he faced Kubrat Pulev in 2012 (=Pulev vs Dimitrenko), since then he has won six bouts beating Drazan Janjanin in 2016. Parker vs Dimitrenko is valid for the WBO Oriental heavyweight title. Watch the video and rate this fight!
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Date: 2016-10-01
Where: Vodafone Events Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
Division: heavyweight (over 200 lbs, 90.7 kg)
Title: WBO Oriental heavyweight title
Parker’s previous fight: Joseph Parker vs Solomon Haumono
Parker’s next fight: Joseph Parker vs Andy Ruiz Jr
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I also think this should be ruled a NC. Better to delete the fight from the annals of boxing history.
Total candidate for worst fight of the year.
It was a good fight but with an sloppy ending no quite professional but most likely unintentional and just because the way the Russian was grabbing. Parker, a technical and faster boxer, did quite right connecting very accurate right hand head punches in all the rounds with successful results in front of a rival bigger than him with a very reasonable record.
Problem with Dimitrenko is that he’s got no answer to Parker’s body shots other than grabbing the latter’s head. Should be a NC though. Not the first time Marlon B. Wright is involved in a strange decision like that.
Dimitrenko just can handle himself, what a shame, but to be fair, that was difinitely a NC, I regretted was this video in the first place!!