Boxing: Joseph Parker Prepares To Fight Fire With Fire

Joseph Parker speaks of his reputation as a pure fighter after being accused of not having "bastard" in his loss to Dillian Whyte.

If his next opponent, Alexander Flores, resorts to the dubious tactics that the Englishman Whyte was allowed to evade during his unanimous victory against Parker in London in July, the New Zealander will answer for the same way.

Whyte clearly hit Parker on the back of the head, tried to attack him over the ropes and constantly pushed him down. Even though Parker does not need to counter such tactics against American Flores at the Horncastle Arena in Christchurch on Dec. 15, he will be ready if homework.

"Being nice outside the ring and being nice in the ring does not work, so if I have to hit him down, I'll do it, if I have to nudge him in the face, I'll do it," said Parker to Las Vegas putting the finishing touches to his side. "Now it is not a matter of talking about it, I will talk about it.

"Come fight at night if he tries to do dirty tricks, I'll fight them with dirtier ones.

"Many people have asked me if I could be a bastard with Dillian Whyte's fight, so with this training camp, if you ask the training partners, I hit them here [points to groin], tripping them, throwing them around the ring. "

Parker, grazing his nose after a workout, added, "I think it's something we need to do – you do not just have to box smart, you have to be ruthless in the ring."

His coach Kevin Barry said that he had apologized to Parker's coaching partners, but that it was necessary to train in all scenarios.

"We all knew that in the last fight against Dillian Whyte, he was a tough guy, but I do not do it. [think] we realized how far and how far he would go, "Barry said. And also what the officials would let him go.

"Joe and I sat down and we had this in mind and I told him …" This camp is flawless. "And I told the partners before we started" just so you know that sparring is going to have a little physical ".

"I saw Joe hitting his training partners on almost every part of their body.I took him to take some guys to the ground, I had him with his before- arms that stifled – things we had never done before. "

"To be quite honest, a lot of things that I've taught Joe over the years and in which I'm training at the gym – he's never felt it was part of his After Whyte's fight, he felt compelled to add that to his game, that's "I have to make it" … and we saw in Whyte's fight that He just did not do it.

"Nobody will ever treat him like that again."

Parker, after two successive defeats, wants to return to Whyte, but Barry has questioned the level of arbitrage in the UK and fears that some boxers do not wish to fight there.

"The UK is becoming old Germany," he said. "People would never go to Germany because they could never make a decision and because the tactics adopted for years were illegal." The UK pushes things to the extreme by allowing fighters to use this dirty tactic. "

Patrick McKendry traveled to Las Vegas with the help of Flooring Xtra, one of the main sponsors of the Parker v Flores fight that took place at Horncastle Arena in Christchurch on December 15th.