Unfortunately for Parker, his final punch was a body shot thrown when Dimitrenko had a knee on the canvas and it sent his opponent rolling dramatically in the apparent hope of a disqualification. "I said, 'I'm sorry, I'm not a dirty fighter, I didn't know you had a knee on the canvas', but he said 'why, why would you do that?'. In training for Dimitrenko I did 93 rounds of sparring over eight weeks, and it was some of the best sparring I have done. Ruiz Jr, who is 5cm shorter than the 1.93m Parker, would also suit him. A fight between Parker and Ruiz Jr would be for the WBO title.

Source: New Zealand Herald October 07, 2016 04:07 UTC