Nope - it was put up for appeal, and possibly laughed out. Tua's got more problems than trying to get his belts back.
International Boxing needs legitimacy and so does NZ boxing. This is not the way to go about it.
They should just have a Parker vs Williams match, so that Parker can end his Boxing career then and there.
Or better yet - Messam vs Williams.
Parker? Surely you mean Williams?
Tua will probably get the rematch. The thing that really annoys me about Tua, is I genuinely think he could have been regarded as a great boxer. He had so mach talent, probably the best left hook of all time in my opinion, and his record suggests that he has deserved many more shots at a ***le. But he's a victim of his own arrogance. He retires after losing a legal dispute with one of the best trainers in the world in Kevin Barry (which Barry rightfully had two years left on his contract). He then goes from owning one of the most expensive properties in Auckland to owing $3m in cash to Inland Revenue.
He gets called out by Cameron and trains extremely hard to get back in good shape, gets in good shape and destroys Cameron only to fight a couple of nobodies in which he doesn't train hard for, and he eventually draws and then loses to Barrett, a 40 year old with no extreme talent. Had he kept in touch with his manager, prior to his second loss, he would have been told that if he won he'd get a ***le shot against Vitali Klitschko. Instead he intentionally stays out of touch with Kushner and once losing the fight, ends his contract with him. After not paying his new trainer again, they end their contract. This is also not to mention Inga Tuigamala's poor promotional work which had
Demitrice King not paid weeks after the fight. He just comes off as this selfish and irresponsible fool.
It's so frustrating. You have a guy who essentially is the only boxer New Zealand and Samoa have ever really cared about, and yet there is just a poor attitude and work ethic which has stopped him becoming what Manny Pacquiao is the Philippines, to New Zealanders.
Boxing in New Zealand just is not healthy. Joseph Parker is probably the next best thing to come along since Tua in terms of boxing. Maybe he will become a good professional.
