{"id":240586,"date":"2025-10-26T04:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240586\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T04:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:05:16","slug":"joseph-parker-fumes-at-fabio-wardley-stoppage-as-undisputed-heavyweight-title-shot-slips-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/240586\/","title":{"rendered":"Joseph Parker fumes at Fabio Wardley stoppage as undisputed heavyweight title shot slips away"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Joseph Parker<\/a> has raged at the referee\u2019s stoppage after his 11th round defeat to Fabio Wardley<\/a> at The O2 in London.<\/p>\n

The New Zealander lost his WBO interim heavyweight title<\/a> after Wardley\u2019s barrage of shots in the penultimate round forced Howard Foster to step in.<\/p>\n

Wardley is now in line to fight the Ukrainian for all four belts in 2026, with the undisputed heavyweight champion recovering from injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t feel like it [got away from me]. The ref stopped the fight, I felt like I could keep going on, he saw enough, but I have to accept the result. Two shots hurt me, but I was still aware and wanted to carry on,\u201d Parker told Seconds Out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, I was hurting him, he was good, took a few shots here and there, he\u2019s a warrior. He won the fight, he\u2019s onto another big event and fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to carry on, if I can get a rematch, then awesome, it\u2019ll be great to run this back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite accepting a fight with Wardley, instead of waiting for Usyk to recover, Parker remains defiant over his decision and has no regrets. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe caught me with a few shots, he put on a good performance, but when you get caught, it\u2019s boxing,\u201d Parker adds.<\/p>\n

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(Steven Paston\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt fine when they stopped the fight, but I\u2019m not the referee, I wanted to carry on, of course.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt sucks to lose a fight, not pretending I\u2019m happy, but life goes on. Boxing is what I do, but I\u2019m blessed with kids and a family, regroup, then see what comes next.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t regret anything I do, boxing is just part of what I do, I\u2019m blessed with a family and a wonderful team. It\u2019s just a bump in the road. I felt good out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

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While Derek Chisora defended the stoppage, warning that Wardley could have inflicted serious damage with just a few more seconds.<\/p>\n

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Fabio Wardley celebrates victory following the WBO World heavy weight championship bout against Joseph Parker (Steven Paston\/PA Wire)<\/p>\n

\u201cWardley is my guy, I\u2019ve had more rounds with Wardley than anybody else in boxing,\u201d Chisora tells Seconds Out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI called it, I said Wardley wins this. Parker had to lose weight, he had too much weight, he was chubby, not fit enough. He needed to do more. The reason why he won this fight, Parker let him, Usyk won\u2019t, he\u2019ll make you work when you don\u2019t want to work. So many breaks in there.<\/p>\n

\u201cUsyk doesn\u2019t let you regroup, totally different. The ref is the only person in the ring watching their eyes, we cannot say anything, I\u2019m happy they stopped it at the right time so he can go back to hid wife and kids. The ref did exactly what he\u2019s meant to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-240586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}