{"id":7911,"date":"2017-09-24T01:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/24\/hughie-fury-denied-wbo-heavyweight-title-but-joseph-parker-flattered-by-score\/"},"modified":"2017-09-24T01:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T23:08:18","slug":"hughie-fury-denied-wbo-heavyweight-title-but-joseph-parker-flattered-by-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=7911","title":{"rendered":"Hughie Fury denied WBO heavyweight title but Joseph Parker flattered by score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 New Zealand champion takes split decision, 118-110, 118-110, 114-114\u2022 Tyson Fury remonstrates with officials over margin against his cousinHughie Fury had a chance to bring the WBO version of the world heavyweight title back into the family fold here on Saturday night but the young Mancunian let the champion, Joseph Parker, rumble to a victory that owed more to persistence than the dominance reflected in two of the scores.The 114-114 returned by one judge was way closer to reality than the two scores of 118-110 that ensured the title would return to New Zealand \u2013 even though the unbeaten champion will remain in the UK to campaign for a shot at Anthony Joshua\u2019s titles. From this vantage point, Parker won the first round and the last six, sharing one, and just giving up the other four. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2017\/sep\/23\/hughie-fury-wbo-heavyweight-title-joseph-parker\" target=\"_blank\">Hughie Fury denied WBO heavyweight title but Joseph Parker flattered by score<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 New Zealand champion takes split decision, 118-110, 118-110, 114-114\u2022 Tyson Fury remonstrates with officials over margin against his cousinHughie Fury had a chance to bring the WBO version of the world heavyweight title back into the family fold here on Saturday night but the young Mancunian let the champion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}