John Wayne Parr Controversy Over Loss To Preacher

A few weeks ago i practically said John Wayne Parr was going to wipe the floor with Bruce “Preacher” Macfie’s pastel coloured hair. Looks like I’m eating my words right about now. The results were in from last nights Evolution 21, one of Australia’s premiere fight promotions. As i scanned over the quick results i noticed something strange under the JWP vs Preacher results. Split decision going to Preacher? No, must be wrong. I check some other sources of results. Everyone has it wrong, i quickly switch to denial. How can this be? How can John Wayne lose to his fluorescent haired opponent?

No one will argue that this was a close fight. Although it never seemed to come out of 3rd gear, the only time we saw both fighters explode with rapid flurries of punches and kicks was in the dying seconds of the last round. There was no dominant performance coming from either man but John Wayne Parr seemed to have more control over the entire fight.

It seems there’s some dispute among the Muay Thai community and more importantly straight from John Wayne Parr himself to the outcome of the fight.  John Wayne Parr stated

” Found out after my fight from the 3 judges own mouths that two of them awarded me the fight, one called it a draw, yet I lost?? Why didn’t anyone add up the score sheets??”

Will JWP take further action? That’s yet to be seen. We are going to have to sit back and see how this unravels over the next few weeks.
With only a month to go before he meets Yodsaenklai for the third time, lets hope John Wayne Parr brings us a more enthusiastic fight for a more compelling decision.

Born in Australia, training in martial arts since the age of 9. My first trip to Thailand was back in 2007. Since then i have made numerous visits back to the "land of smiles" to feed my addiction of Muay Thai. During the month of November in 2010 i had to decide between working a 9 to 5 job back home for the rest of my life, or sell all my worldly possessions and move to Thailand to live and train for the next few years. Thankfully i chose the latter. I now spend my time training Muay Thai, meeting new and interesting circles of people, sipping coconuts under palm trees on the beach and measuring the cost of everything on how much Pad Thai i could buy with that money.

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