Top NZ Officials says Ruiz was ripped off
By Ray Wheatley — World of Boxing
Leading New Zealand boxing official Lance Revill has showed his disapproval with the majority points victory his countryman Joseph Parker scored over Mexico’s Andy Ruiz on Saturday in Auckland New Zealand, proclaiming that Ruiz was “ripped off” against Parker
“Joseph Parker didn’t win that fight,” Revill told the New Zealand Herald. “Get real New Zealand. We haven’t got a New Zealand heavyweight champion. We got ripped off. It was a lopsided fight and I feel sorry for Andy Ruiz. Something stinks about this fight, something stinks about the whole set-up. There wasn’t a bad word said about Joseph Parker. The whole press is on his side, he’s been given a dream ride right through.”
Parker’s promoter, Dean Lonergan of Duco Events responded, “I can’t believe that Lance Revill, a man who has been involved in boxing all his life, would come out and be as negative and disrespectful as he has been. Lance Revill is nothing but an irrelevance and he should crawl back into his hole of obscurity and lock the door with the key of irrelevance because, bottom line, the guy’s an idiot!”
Revill is the President of the New Zealand Boxing Association.