Zach Parker was convinced once the final bell rang Saturday night that he had beaten Joshua Buatsi and changed his family’s fortunes.

An exasperated Parker was left to figure out what went wrong in his locker room after Buatsi was announced as a majority-decision winner of their high-stakes, 10-round light heavyweight fight at Co-op Live Arena in Manchester, England. Parker pointed to the reactions ringside as evidence that he did more than enough to out-point Buatsi, but none of the judges scored their fight for the British contender.

Judge Grzegorz Molenda, a London-based Pole, scored Buatsi-Parker a draw, 95-95. The two other judges – England’s Marcus McDonnell and Spain’s Salvador Salva – credited Buatsi with a 96-94 victory.

“I should be [WBA International] champion now and change my daughter’s life,” Parker told IFL TV in his dressing room. “You know what I mean? It’s a hard game as it is.”

CompuBox counted more connections for Parker, who unofficially out-landed Buatsi by 24 punches overall (100-of-326 to 76-of-368). Parker landed more power punches (66-of-174 to 31-of-157), according to CompuBox, but Buatsi hit him with more jabs (45-of-211 to 34-of-152).

“[Carl] Frampton and everyone said they gave him one round,” Parker said in reference to the retired two-division champ and DAZN analyst. “I can’t even think, mate. Just fuming. I put my whole life into this and then I get bad decisions like that. It was a bit scrappy at times, but that’s how you win fights. You don’t win a fight with him inside. You just out-box him. His legs are so slow. Like, I don’t know, mate.”

A perturbed Parker (26-2, 18 KOs) was particularly bothered by how the second half of their DAZN main event was scored.

Salva gave four of the final five rounds to Buatsi (20-1, 13 KOs), who won each of the last three rounds on Molenda’s card. McDonnell scored the ninth and 10th rounds for Parker, but Buatsi won six of the first eight rounds according to him.

“I thought I won easy,” Parker said, “and it gets taken away from you. I don’t know. A lot of people are saying you should appeal it [with the British Boxing Board of Control] and whatnot. But I’ve seen other people who get robbed before and it never goes anywhere, does it?”

The 31-year-old Parker probably will have to hope another 175-pound contender agrees to fight him while watching Buatsi advance toward fights for bigger purses, perhaps a title shot at some point.

The 32-year-old Buatsi dismissed Parker’s complaints and criticized his opponent for holding too much and continually falling to the canvas. Parker believes Buatsi knew he lost, though, based on his body language before the decision was announced.

“You seen my reaction and his reaction,” Parker said. He had his head down. I knew I won. Everyone at ringside, like Talk Sport and everything, they’ve all said that I won that. I’m just fuming. I wanna get back to my daughter [Sunday] and like I just wanna change my life and, like I said, if I could get paid doing something else … it’s a hard game as it is – I can’t even think, mate. It’s so fresh, isn’t it?”