Derek Chisora’s trainer Buddy McGirt claimed that Joseph Parker’s own trainer admitted the Briton had won their fight on Saturday night.
Parker won on a split decision at the AO Manchester Arena, and McGirt told the DAZN Boxing Show that his trainer - presumably Andy Lee - came over after the bout to claim he thought Parker had lost.
“The trainer walked over and said, ‘You guys won that fight. And if he said it to me and [another team member], and said you guys won that fight...and he said ‘you can hold me to it’,” he said.
McGirt thought that Parker had enjoyed a kind of home advantage due to the presence of a judge from New Zealand, and hoped for a rematch.
He said: “I knew that when they said it was a judge from New Zealand... there was no way he was going to lean to Chisora.
“Of course, my opinion if you want to go out saying you beat this guy, you’ve got to give a rematch: ‘I’ll prove it to you a second time.’”
Saturday’s fight was the first that McGirt had overseen for Chisora, and the coach was impressed with his determination in the ring, and in training.
“His willingness to give it his all,” McGirt said was a defining quality.
“I’d never seen him fight before training, and he just wanted to go out there and put it all on the line and you very rarely meet people like that.
“In the gym if he did something I didn’t like he’d apologise. You don’t go to apologize, you gotta focus on the task at hand!”