Boxer Hughie Fury has been urged to drop his father and find a new trainer if he is ever to be a world heavyweight title force.
That was the brutal but honest assessment from specialist boxing site BoxingNews24 on Thursday as Parker's majority points win over Fury in Manchester last weekend continues to be debated.
Writer Scott Gilfoid said the fight was "an easy one to pick a winner" and, like two of the judges who scored it 118-110, he felt Parker won 10 of the 12 rounds and” was the only one trying to fight".
He suggested Fury wouldn't beat "any of the talented contenders" and faces a long road back to get another chance. He listed Carlos Takam, Dillian Whyte, Dominic Breazeale, Luis Ortiz, David Haye and Jarrell Miller as fighters all capable of easily beating Fury unless he changed his one-dimensional tactics of being elusive and then clinching.
"I hate to say it but Hughie is little more than a tall spoiler," Guildford wrote and then suggested the unthinkable for a family as tight as the Furys.
"Hughie needs to think seriously about getting a different trainer. There's no way that a quality trainer like Virgil Hunter or Freddie Roach would have allowed Hughie to run around the ring for 12 rounds without throwing punches in the Parker fight the way that Peter Fury did. The fact that Hughie was even fighting like that in the first place against Parker suggests that he wasn't well trained.
"If Hughie doesn't have the physical ability to fight at a prominent level, then that needs to be found out so he can move on to some other type of occupation. But Hughie at least needs a good trainer to teach him how to throw punches properly, and stand his ground.
"Hughie wasn't doing either of those things against Parker. That was just awful to look at. The power isn't there for Hughie, but worse than that, he doesn't have the ambition to even try and throw power shots. That's the sad thing. You'd expect a lot more for a guy related to Tyson Fury. Hughie should have absorbed knowledge in how to fight by this point in his life. He didn't look like he had clue one in how to fight against Parker."
BoxingNews 24 said the interesting thing now would be how hard the WBO hit Fury in terms of his ranking after he was surprisingly given the mandatory despite not having fought for almost 18 months.
"I see the guy as basically getting a title shot against Parker based off his last name in being connected to Tyson Fury in being his nephew. If not for that, Hughie would be little more than a bottom feeder in the heavyweight rankings. I think he'd still be rated, but more towards rock bottom of the WBO's ratings at No 15."
With the third judge calling the fight a draw at 114-114, the Fury camp has been outraged by the loss, from the moment Parker's hand was raised in victory.
They have called for an investigation, suggested corruption, and screamed for a rematch - none of which are likely to happen.
Peter Fury told BoxinghScene that if a rematch wasn't ordered, a likely path forward for his son was a clash with rugged Australian Lucas Browne who is managed by UK great Ricky Hatton.
Browne had been quick to call out both Parker and Fury in the aftermath to their fight.
"I know that Lucas Browne thinks he can knock out the two of them on the same night, so that's a fight we'd like to make next for Hughie in April," Peter Fury told BoxinmgScene.
"I hope that 'Big Daddy' reads this because we'll offer him good money and would take that fight next, we'd be happy with that.
"Browne is not anywhere near Parker's level, so it is a good fight to ease Hughie back with. Lucas is a nice guy, he says what he thinks and we respect that, so if [Browne's promoter] Ricky Hatton gets in touch we'd like to see if we can get that one on if we don't get the rematch."
Meanwhile, former world cruiserweight champion Glenn McCrory felt the right man won though believed the cards should have been closer.
"Myself and the majority of the press had Parker winning against Fury, but not as widely as two of the judges had it at 118-110. But nevertheless the right man won," McCrory from Britain wrote in his regular boxing column in The Sun.
"Boxing, unlike most sports, is subjective. There is no net or goal or basket where you can clearly define a point or a winner. If there is no knockout after the contest finishes it is left to judges
"I do think that judges have to be very experienced and must be held accountable for their decision, as there is so much at stake in big fights.
"But remember boxing is big business and big money so admitting to a loss makes no financial sense if you can get another big fight or a rematch, or in so many of the great boxing match ups, a trilogy.
"Remember controversy still sells."
Photo by: REUTERS (Caption: Hughie Fury's tactics under the tutelage of his father and trainer have been slammed by an American boxing critic)