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Video live updates: Joseph Parker Vs Jason Pettaway

  • Breaking
  • 05/03/2015

FIGHT CARD:

Main Event:  Joseph Parker v Jason Pettaway - Parker wins by technical knockout

10 Rounds – Heavyweight – for the WBA PABA & WBO Oriental Titles

Brown Buttabean v Finau Maka - Buttabean by TKO

4x2min rounds – Corporate World Championship Heavyweight fight $15K knockout bonus

Joe Blackbourn v Friday Nwaiwu - Draw

6x3min rounds– S/Middleweight Bout

Bowyn Morgan v Ivana Seau - Morgan by decision

6x3min rounds – Middleweight

Izu Ugonoh v Thomas Peato - Ugonoh wins by knockout

6x3min rounds – Heavyweight

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- Check out the video above to see the highlight's from Parker's fight.

Round Four: Parker comes out working the body of Pettaway with left and rights and DOWN HE GOES AGAIN! He won't be able to get up before the count and that's it! Parker gets the knock out in the fourth round! 

Round Three: Pettaway is struggling to deal with the speed of Parker and looks like a frightened fighter. He's copped some of Parker's power and isn't in the mood for anymore of that. Pettaway is still off with his timing, looking a little off-balanced while throwing punches. Hard body shots from Parker and DOWN GOES PETTAWAY! Some smooth body work leaves the American gasping for breath on the deck. He gets to his feet...and sees out the last 20 seconds, barely. Wow did Parker show his dominance in that round.

Round Two: Interesting start to the second round as Pettaway wraps up Parker around the waist/upper thigh, almost like he was going for a UFC style takedown. The referee doesn't like that, neither does the crowd. Parker works his way into the body of Pettaway, plants one, then retreats to avoid a possible counter from the American. CRACK! Parker opens up with the right hand and lands a few hard shots. Stinging blows and Pettaway has been hurt this round. He's happy to see out the second round and get back to the corner. Another Parker round.

Round One: Here we go...Parker lets right hand fly early and hits Pettaway early. He sizes him up, then comes with the left. Pettaway not interested in chopping away in the early running, just measuring Parker while keeping a distance. BAM! Parker lands a heavy right on Pettaway's left ear as he backed him into a corner. Pettaway loads up the right hand, but Parker anticipated it and stayed on his back foot. Pettaway isn't offering a lot up, looks a bit like a deer in the headlights. That's all for the first round, which was definitely a Parker round.

10:07pm - Long hype video for Parker keeps Pettaway waiting in the ring, as the American circles his corner...And here comes Parker strutting to the ring in red and black, getting a great reception.

10:05pm - And here comes The Technician Jason Pettaway, who is 17-1 in his professional career. He is on a hot-steak at the moment winning his past six fights with ease.

10:01pm - It must be said that Pettaway is confident in himself, yesterday flashing a betting slip at the weigh-in. He placed $1K on himself to win (who knew you could bet on yourself in professional boxing...) with odds of 9-1. What's Parker's odds you ask? Well he is paying just $1.05 and $1.15 to win by knockout.

9:56pm - Both fighters going through last-minute warm-ups in the locker rooms. Parker looking sharp and his gloves a blur, we shouldn't be too far away from the main event.

9:47pm - Buttabean moves to 9-0 and credits his team for all the work they put in with him. He finishes off by calling out Sonny Bill Williams. "SBW, where are ya?"

Round One: Wild start from Maka who comes out wanting to brawl, throwing shots all over the shops. Brown Buttabean wants none of that and DROPS MAKA with a left hook! He's up before the referee counts to three. Another brawl starts and DOWN GOES MAKA AGAIN! He's just walking into these punches and Buttabean has his arms aloft after knocking him down a second time...and the referee calls an end to it! That's it, technical knockout win by the Brown Buttabean! The referee wasn't getting a response from Maka and that's all she wrote.

9:37 - Out comes Maka, the former Tongan rugby player, who is joined on his way to the ring by David Tua, who looks keen to keep his head down and hides behind a cap. This might be the best athlete the Brown Buttabean (6-0) has fought, but can he box?

9:32pm - Next up we have Dave Letele, AKA Brown Buttabean in action against Finau Maka. These two had a terribly staged 'fight' at the weigh-in yesterday, which basically involved a choke hold and wrestle to the ground. First we have some rappers in the ring entertaining the crowd. Not sure exactly who they are, but one of them is wearing a Yasiel Puig Dodgers jersey, so there's that.

9:25pm - Former Tall Black and Breakers forward Dillion Boucher with Parker in the sheds before his fight. Parker looking very calm and keeping it loose.

Round Six: Can't imagine Blackbourn will find his knockout tonight, he will probably just box out the fight. Good shot to the body catches Nwaiwu, but nothing more than a pop. BOOM! One hits the ground...but that one is the referee! The crowd cheers and I hear someone call out "Taxi!" as the referee gets back to his feet after tripping in the corner. We'll go to the judges...they are taking their time and there is plenty of discussions...Judge one scores it 59-55 Blackbourn, judge two scores it 59-55 Nwaiwu, judge three scores it 57-57. We have a draw!

Round Five: Big left hand from Blackbourn buckles Nwaiwu's knees. That will wake him up! Nwaiwu is trying his best to land some sneaky shots, but you got to wonder what he can do without much power behind them. Blackbourn throws a big swing that sways him off-balanced as Nwaiwu swiftly gets low and out of the way. End of the fifth and a bit of claret from Blackbourn's nose is flowing, but he doesn't look to bothered by it.

Round Four: Big left hook from Nwaiwu knocks the mouth guard from Blackbourn's mouth clean out. We'll take a short break as the Kiwi gets another one. Both boxers looking more fiery, Blackbourn showing power and Nwaiwu flashing his speed and counter-punches. Blackbourn backs him onto the ropes and lands a couple of nice body shots on Nwaiwu. Good round, I'll edge it Blackbourn's way.

Round Three: Blackbourn fighting in one tempo, which Nwaiwu has handled. He barely throws more than one jab at a time before trying to unload and it's not working. The Kiwi fighter has never been past the third round, he's never needed to winning all his fights by KO at this stage. Improved round for Blackbourn who lands some better shots in the third. Nwaiwu looked controlled, but he didn't land much.

Round Two: Nwaiwu is ducking and swaying away from a lot of Blackbourn's punches. He throws a three-punch combo, but barely clips with one. Nwaiwu steps away holding his head, it looks like they might have knocked heads, but nothing is showing. Nothing between the two fighters in the first two rounds.

Round One: Blackbourn might be 7-0, but this will be his first real test in the ring. Both fighters feeling their way into the fight and you can already tell these guys are more experienced than the previous Morgan-Seau bout. Blackbourn tests out Nwaiwu hitting him downstairs, but not a lot is given away in the first round. Debatable as to who won that one! Blackbourn was more clinical, but Nwaiwu threw more punches (not all hitting, of course)

8:50pm - Next up is Friday Nwaiwu and Joe Blackbourn scrapping it out in a Aussie vs Kiwi bout. Nwaiwu, a Nigerian from Adelaide, is 3-5 in his professional career, while Blackbourn, from Wellington, is 7-0 (all by knockout!), and heavy favourite.

8:45pm - I don't think many people saw that one going the distance after Seau copped a few shots in the first two rounds. He did well to battle on and walks away with his swollen head held high. Morgan moves to 2-0 in his professional career.

Round Six: Into the final round and Seau loses his mouth guard again! Is he spitting it or has he got the wrong size? Morgan comes out fluttering and once again the mouth guard comes out from Seau. I'm thinking it was the former, and the referee has words with him and his trainer, warning him he'll be penailised if this carries on. Fight restarts for a second time and Morgan is all over him and looking to finish him off. He won't get it, but lands a few solid shots. No knockdowns in the fight, but I think it's academic that Morgan is the clear winner... Morgan takes it by decision.

Round Five: Nice right hook from Seau catching Morgan on the way in. I'm surprised Seau can see to be honest, his face is starting to show the scars with the swelling and his left eye is almost closed. Fatigue factor is definitely prominent and the referee calls a halt as Seau's mouth guard drops out of his mouth. Shorter shots on the inside from Morgan to end what feels like a quick round. Not sure if they stopped the clock while Seau got another mouth guard...

Round Four: Morgan's obviously got the word in the corner and is throwing a couple more jabs now. Seau is staging a little bit of a comeback and is still trying to walk Morgan onto his shots. Things are starting to settle down a bit as both fighters tire. These guys will be feeling it tomorrow, I can tell you that! After four rounds I would have Morgan taking three, the other a debatable draw/Morgan round.

Round Three: I think Morgan's corner feel that Seau is starting to fade and he relentlessly tracks him round the ring. Morgan crashes a left onto the ear of Seau, but a lovely uppercut catches Morgan and knocks him back. Morgan isn't throwing many jabs, he's just concentrating on getting inside and swinging the big ones. Needs to at least fake a few because he's walked into a few hits from Seau. Better round from Seau, as even as we've seen, but I think Morgan takes it just.

Round Two:  Morgan is throwing punches with mean intentions, but Seau is making him pay every once in a while. Plenty of energy flying around from both fighters and we're only in the second of six rounds. Seau looking a little shakey as we come to the end of the second round and he has a bit of claret coming down the nose. Seau will see out the round, but Morgan certainly threw a lot of clinical punches.

Round One: Morgan comes out firing with a lovely left hook. He's tapping away with it to the body, not dropping too much power just yet. A slapping left hook from Morgan catches Seau and is met with "ooohs" from the crowd. Nice combination body shots from Morgan, but he is catching a few the other way from Seau. Both of these fighters are new to professional boxing and are taking are absorbing a few too many shots for my liking, got to be careful without the headgear of amateur boxing. Morgan will be happy with his first round.

8:14pm - Small technical issue but we're back in time for the second fight of the night between Bowyn Morgan and Ivana Seau!

8:01pm - Ugonoh looks like a beast and the 28-year-old picks up his 9th knockout in 11 fights. He thanks Barry after the fight for his great training and apologies to the crowd for finishing the fight so early. What a good sort.

Round Two: Ugonoh did all the scoring in the first and is starting to find his range, backing Peato back onto the ropes. SMACK! Ugonoh nails Peato in the liver with the left and he knocks him down wincing. You can feel that one as he drops over the bottom rope. He's on one knee slowly getting up...but he won't make the 10 count and the referee waves it off as Peato remains hutched over. Ugonoh takes it by knockout.

Round One: Peato taking a few shots in the first round, maybe showing a little jitters as he leaves his shoulders square and Ugonoh sneaks in and hits him in the body with the right hand. Ugonoh is looking to work the body and throws his body into shots like a piledriver! Ugonoh, who is born in Nigeria and raised in Poland, has a 5cm reach advantage and it's showing early. Ugonoh rocks off the back foot and catches Peato around the eye, but didn't quite knock him clean.

7:51pm - Barry comes out with Ugonoh in his classic silky sleeve top. Going with a shirt underneath it tonight, though. Boxers touch gloves and we are set to go. 

7:47pm - Here we go! First boxer of the night coming out as Thomas Peato makes his way to the ring to take on Izu Ugonoh, who is Parker's training partner in Las Vegas and is also trained by Kevin Barry. Ugonoh (10-0) is a heavy favourite in this fight paying just a $1.10 with the bookies, while Peato is out of $6.

The first fight is scheduled for 7:40pm, in the meantime you can watch a preview of the Parker-Pettaway fight in the video above.

7:44pm - We're already behind schedule here and I think someone forgot to turn on the air-con. Kaino's madly fanning a letter on him to cool down as he chats with some of the Rugby Sevens guys. Beaver is also in the house for this one. Not to far way now...

7:26pm - Captain of the Blues is in the house for tonight's bout. Both Kaino and Luatua were at yesterday's weigh-in at Ellerslie chewing the fat with Parker, so it's a no-brainer who they're rooting for tonight! Maybe the action they see tonight will inspire the 0-3 Blues into some fight in the Super Rugby season??

7:09pm - Joseph Parker looking very relaxed ahead of tonight's bout, posting this message earlier on Twitter.

Pre-match banter:

Joseph Parker has rubbish talk from his opponent Jason Pettaway that he is overlooking their fight and focusing on the future.

Parker is scheduled to spar with world champion Wladimir Klitschko next month and has hopes of fighting Kali Meehan, but the 23-year-old insists he isn't looking past tomorrow night's bout.

"I'm definitely talking Jason seriously," said Parker.

"With every fight that I have I treat it like fighting a world champ, the fighter you look past is going to be the one that gets you.

"There is the Klitschko thing and other fights out there, but I'm just focused on tomorrow night's fight."

Pettaway says he is determined to be more than just a marker stone in Parker's journey.

"They're looking kind of past me I think, about sparring [Wladimir] Klitschko and whatnot," he said.

"I'm coming here to fight. They're going to see that on Thursday, it's not going to be that easy."

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