Bob Jones says Joe Parker should retire:

While Bob Jones hasn't been infrequent with his criticism of New Zealand heavyweights Joe Parker and David Tua his latest seems unfair. Jones claims that Joe should have never taken the fight because Joe Joyce is a fighter in the style of George Foreman. I think that it is true and that it took a then aging fighter, Muhammed Ali, to stop Foreman with his "rope a dope" trick on the big man by covering up against George for most of the round before ending with a flurry of scoring punches before the bell sounded. While Ali took a battering to his body and arms he eventually caught the big man and sent him down,

This isn't to compare Joe to Ali apart from Joe in the past has shown a very quick jab and spoke about that the week before the fight. One of my criticisms of Joe is that he spoke too much when he should have been going over and over in his mind what his strategy would be and how he would change it if needed. He may have fooled himself by Joyce asking for a guarantee for a rematch before Christmas if he lost, or his lack of fights. By the middle rounds when Joe's trainer was telling him to step forward which, while promising, was still resulting in Joe taking heavy punishment albeit while scoring with a long right off his jab. That bothered Joe Joyce somewhat but he seldom stopped coming forward in a neat and compact way with quick heavy punches. Although we may have never seen Joe bob and weave that was always effective for Mike Tyson against big punchers until he got his left hook in.

Joyce was never deterred from his direct attack which is probably the point Bob Jones was making but that didn't mean Joe could not have adopted going left and right before stepping in and mixing his offense up a lot more even employing the rope a dope now and then. If Joyce's attack was predictable Joe should have looked to mix things up like getting in and pushing Joyce back in the way Evander bullied Tyson. As it is, there may still be the next time as Joe has come back and beaten fighters that have beaten him, he has a great coach and he might be more circumspect now about counting his chickens before they hatch. He also would have a sound plan against a fighter he learned a lot about last Sunday morning.

Boxing: Sir Bob Jones calls for Joseph Parker to end his boxing career after latest defeat - NZ Herald