Boxing: Lance Revill resigns from WBO-affiliated organisation following Joseph Parker's title win

NZPBA president Lance Revill has resigned from the WBO-supported Professional Boxing Commission International. Photo / Photosport.

Lance Revill has resigned from a WBO-affiliated organisation as the bitter slanging match between the former Kiwi heavyweight champion and Joseph Parker's management continues.

Revill has quit his post at the WBO-supported Professional Boxing Commission International, after being heavily criticised for his controversial assessment of Parker's heavyweight title win over Andy Ruiz on Saturday.

On Sunday, Revill sparked a war of words with Duco Events promoter Dean Lonergan, when he claimed the Mexican had been "ripped off" by the judges at Auckland's Vector Arena.

Lonergan returned serve, dismissing Revill's comments and labelling the 63-year-old an "idiot".

Revill stands by his comments and Fairfax media report he sent a resignation letter to WBO vice president Leon Panoncillo, detailing his frustrations and reasons for standing down.

"I'm resigned from that association as of today. I don't want any part of it," Revill said.

"I don't like the way they operate. They have inexperienced people doing officiating jobs. I've resigned because of the fallout and the way this whole tournament was run.

"Any Joseph Parker fights in New Zealand I don't want a part of it.

"I don't want to be criticised for having my opinion.

"I'm looking at taking legal matters for all these comments coming my way. It's childish behaviour from someone like Dean Lonergan."

Revill remains adamant Parker was not deserving of a majority decision win, after one judge scored the fight as a 114 draw, while the remaining two scored it 115-113 in the 24-year-old South Aucklander's favour.

"I'm telling you right now again 118-11Ruiz wins the fight. That's the way I saw it. Just get over it and live with it.

"I'm not going to change my decision. I shoot straight from the hip and I stand by my decision. I've watched the fight twice since. If you don't like it lump it. I've rattled the cage of Duco.

"Look at what [Muhammad Ali's biographer Thomas] Hauser had to say."

The New Zealand Professional Boxing Association president remains upset the national body had been shut out from organising local events after his relationship with Parker's management had deteriorated.

"We started off with Dean Lonergan and everything was going smoothly but then things between Kevin Barry and myself seemed to fall apart so our association was dropped from participating with Duco Events and they started to go through the NZNZF [New Zealand National Boxing Federation], who are a pack of people who don't know what they're doing.

"Leon Panoncillo got so embarrassed about operating through these guys that he formed a new association called the PBC.

"I've known Dean Lonergan a long time and I've supported him a long time. I've helped him through challenging times; helped him put fights on he couldn't do. It's beyond reason what he's done.

"I've served my time as an amateur boxer. I've represented my country. I won three titles as a professional heavyweight and served as an international referee so I don't have to answer to anybody in boxing."