Joshua vs Parker

[sambajustice]

Is this a real fight then or a hype job to sell tickets and PPV?

Last week was built up to be a genuine fight and turned into an ok boxer smashing Mr Blobby.

To the proper.boxing people in here, what do you think?

[CallumLaidlaw]

Is this a real fight then or a hype job to sell tickets and PPV?

Last week was built up to be a genuine fight and turned into an ok boxer smashing Mr Blobby.

To the proper.boxing people in here, what do you think?

Real fight to me. Parker looks a lot leaner than he has in his last 2/3 fights. He’s quick so is a different type of opponent for AJ. I’m looking forward it.


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[Mon Dieu4]

Is this a real fight then or a hype job to sell tickets and PPV?

Last week was built up to be a genuine fight and turned into an ok boxer smashing Mr Blobby.

To the proper.boxing people in here, what do you think?

On paper it's a good fight, two unbeaten heavyweight champions but both are relatively untested in the grand scheme of things, both have decent amateur pedigree as well so it's not a total mismatch, as ever with heavyweight boxing it could be over with one punch, it's really interesting as we will find out a lot about both of them in this one

the rest of the card is decent on it too so I'm more than happy to pay £20 for it

[Pretty Boy]

I think Joshua wins.

It's a decent test for him but I've never been blown away by Parker, he didn't look at all impressive v Hughie Fury and looked laboured v Cojanu; albeit he must have have been a nightmare to look good against. Parker is pretty quick but Joshua coming in as light as he has will counter than to an extent. I'm sure it's just talk from Parker and an attempt to get the red mist to come down but I don't think Joshua is as chinny as he is sayig. He took a monster of a punch from Klitschko and whilst he went down he got back up, survived the crisis and won the fight. Not many guys get hit like that by WK and get back up.

Joshua late stoppage or UD with Parker putting in a good showing I reckon.

[H18 SFR]

Similar to the Klitchko fight for me, both to how the canvas and AJ to win.

[Lancs Harp]

Parker can hit and in that respect he has a chance but i'd be surprised if he won this one. Ive got AJ middle round stoppage.

[lord bunberry]

I’m surprised at the boxing people I respect on this forum calling this as a close fight. AJ will win in whatever style he sees fit imo. This fight is nothing more than a stepping stone for AJ. Is Parker a true heavyweight? I don’t see it myself, he’ll have the speed, but not the power.

[Onceinawhile]

I’m surprised at the boxing people I respect on this forum calling this as a close fight. AJ will win in whatever style he sees fit imo. This fight is nothing more than a stepping stone for AJ. Is Parker a true heavyweight? I don’t see it myself, he’ll have the speed, but not the power.

A stepping stone to where though? Deontay wilder is a bum with an inflated record per the boxing experts.

[Mantis Toboggan]

Parker was poor in his last fight albeit against a late stand in. He's tough but doesn't even have a punchers chance

[Navids Numpties]

Is this a real fight then or a hype job to sell tickets and PPV?

Last week was built up to be a genuine fight and turned into an ok boxer smashing Mr Blobby.

To the proper.boxing people in here, what do you think?

It may well be a hype job as Eddie Hearn could sell me my own skidmarked undies.

[MagicSwirlingShip]

Definitely a test for AJ, but anyone looking for the real threat to his belts should look to the undercard.

Alexander Povetkin will demolish Price and is in line to face AJ next. Dangerous fella.

[Navids Numpties]

Definitely a test for AJ, but anyone looking for the real threat to his belts should look to the undercard.

Alexander Povetkin will demolish Price and is in line to face AJ next. Dangerous fella.

Povetkin is a beast, reminds me of Mike Tyson somewhat, priceys chin is made of glass and has already been knocked out by 2 drug cheats and Hearn has went and thrown him in with someone who’s already been charged with drug abuse. Hearn is trying to make price go into early retirement. Hope he does well though as he seems a good chap.

[lord bunberry]

A stepping stone to where though? Deontay wilder is a bum with an inflated record per the boxing experts.
A stepping stone to unification. Parker isn’t in the same league as AJ. Wilder is the obvious big fight, but like you I’m not convinced by him, especially if the fight happens in this country. AJ could find his biggest test comes from one of the domestic heavyweights, Fury, Whyte and Price are all potential fights that would capture the imagination.

[Nameless]

AJ in the 5th, 6th or 7th.

Looking further forward, I think Whyte will fight Wilder and beat him. AJ will have a couple of lower key mandatory defences, then Joshua-v-Whyte II will happen at Wembley in summer '19.

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[nellio]

Proper fight 100% WBO is a decent belt and Parker is a good fighter.

You don't get proper unification fights very often so looking forward to this.

Wasn't overly impressed with Parker against Fury. I think AJ will beat him. Could go the distance or AJ mid to late stoppage.

[Tobias Funke]

AJ in the 5th, 6th or 7th.

Looking further forward, I think Whyte will fight Wilder and beat him. AJ will have a couple of lower key mandatory defences, then Joshua-v-Whyte II will happen at Wembley in summer '19.

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No way is Whyte beating Wilder, he will get cleaned out early doors by Deontay.

[Nameless]

No way is Whyte beating Wilder, he will get cleaned out early doors by Deontay.Whyte is a banger with a good chin, as is Wilder, so it would likely come down to the better boxing brain. As yet, Wilder hasn't shown if his is any better than Whyte's.

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[JimBHibees]

Anyone know when Joshua fight starts?

[Pretty Boy]

Anyone know when Joshua fight starts?

Ring walks expected at about 10.30.

[MagicSwirlingShip]

No way is Whyte beating Wilder, he will get cleaned out early doors by Deontay.

I wouldn’t write off Whyte. He gave AJ plenty problems and had improved markedly since.

[hibs#1]

I wouldn’t write off Whyte. He gave AJ plenty problems and had improved markedly since.

Yeah plenty to like about Whyte.

[Pretty Boy]

Price has boxed well thus far. Working his jab well and wobbled Povetkin at the end of the 1st. Povetkin getting some success to the body.

[Mon Dieu4]

Id love Price to do this

[Pretty Boy]

Ooft big counter and Price goes down. Got into a swinging match.

[CallumLaidlaw]

Ooft big counter and Price goes down. Got into a swinging match.

Big punch there. Glad he got a count.


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[Pretty Boy]

Povetkin almost goes, what a shot by Price.

Great round.

[Mon Dieu4]

Mon Dave!!!

[Pretty Boy]

Tony Bellew sounds like he's about to explode.

[Pretty Boy]

That's that then.

Price chin is always going to be an issue.

[Mon Dieu4]

****ing shame, game performance from him, Povetkin shouldnt even be allowed to box, cheating ****

[Pretty Boy]

Seeing that KO again, not sure many could have taken that. Hit right on the temple and was out on his feet. The finishing shot was brutal.

[David_D]

****ing shame, game performance from him, Povetkin shouldnt even be allowed to box, cheating ****

This. Shouldn’t be allowed to fight after two failed drugs tests.

[JimBHibees]

Ring walks expected at about 10.30.

Thanks

[JimBHibees]

This. Shouldn’t be allowed to fight after two failed drugs tests.

Why didn't he get a 2 year World drugs agency ban?

[hibs#1]

Shame for big Price.always liked him he's had some rotten luck but his jaw always betrays him.

[Hibs90]

That last shot was a belter

[Mon Dieu4]

Why didn't he get a 2 year World drugs agency ban?

In boxing it's normally up to the governing bodies what the ban is or the sanctioning board

[IGRIGI]

The ring walks could be longer than the actual fight.

[hibs#1]

I'll say AJ inside 3 rounds.

[Pretty Boy]

Both look very relaxed walking in. You can normally see if someone is tense but they bothe looked genuinely calm.

[IGRIGI]

She's top trolling with this national anthem fest :greengrin

[Pretty Boy]

Fight will start this time tomorrow at this rate.

[Hibby70]

GSTQ, Superbowl style

[hibs#1]

The world's longest national anthem.

[H18 SFR]

Parker inside 7 rounds is my new predication.

[Hibee87]

Fight will start this time tomorrow at this rate.

Haha how long is the NZ anthen

[Pretty Boy]

Joshuas round without doing a lot. Owned the middle of the ring and landed a couple of nice shots. Parker looks comfortable enough.

[Pretty Boy]

Joshuas reach advantage is the issue for Parker, he can't get close.

[H18 SFR]

Rubbish fight.

[Pretty Boy]

Rubbish fight.

It's been good watching AJ box so well, showing great discipline and doing everything right.

[Hibs90]

Guff fight.

[Mon Dieu4]

Good to see AJ using the jab and not constantly try and detonate the right hand yet

[Pretty Boy]

Better round from Parker.

[Hibs90]

Better round this.

[Pretty Boy]

Getting interesting.

[Frazerbob]

This ref is worse than Clancy.

[IGRIGI]

Ref thinks they've paid tickets to watch him.

[David_D]

That ref was horrendous.

[H18 SFR]

Worst unification fight ever.

[Hibs90]

**** paying hundreds to go see that.

[matty_f]

That ref was horrendous.

:agree: Ruined it.

[Pretty Boy]

I think Joshua wins.

It's a decent test for him but I've never been blown away by Parker, he didn't look at all impressive v Hughie Fury and looked laboured v Cojanu; albeit he must have have been a nightmare to look good against. Parker is pretty quick but Joshua coming in as light as he has will counter than to an extent. I'm sure it's just talk from Parker and an attempt to get the red mist to come down but I don't think Joshua is as chinny as he is sayig. He took a monster of a punch from Klitschko and whilst he went down he got back up, survived the crisis and won the fight. Not many guys get hit like that by WK and get back up.

Joshua late stoppage or UD with Parker putting in a good showing I reckon.

.....I'm pretty sure I'm right here.

[hibs#1]

Parker much better than I thought,deserves to be at world level.clever performance from Joshua used his jab well but not the usual fireworks we expect from him.

[Steve-O]

The world's longest national anthem.

It was the Samoan AND NZ national anthems.

[lord bunberry]

Joshua did a very professional job on Parker. It wasn’t exciting to watch, but he won’t be bothered about that. The question is, how good is Joshua? It’s hard to see anyone out there that’s likely to overly trouble him. Whyte would be a good fight, but I don’t see why he would have anymore of a chance than the last time, and Fury as a lot to prove.

[JimBHibees]

It was the Samoan AND NZ national anthems.

The disrespect shown by the crowd was appalling.

[Pretty Boy]

The disrespect shown by the crowd was appalling.

It's always the case at these events. A huge gathering of pissed up 'lads' with no real regard for the sport. I remember being at the Braehead when Curtis Woodhouse was TKOd by Willie Limond, he was a bit unsteady for a few minutes and a bunch of guys next to me were screaming he was an 'English poof' and 'I hope you ****ing die ya ****'. Classy. The same guys were making monkey noises at Wadi Camacho the same night.

I've never understood how difficult it is to stand quietly for an anthem and show a bit respect to anybody brave enough to actually get in the ring in the 1st place.

[patch1875]

Pretty awful fight. AJ lucky it’s a pretty weak division just now.

[Steve-O]

The disrespect shown by the crowd was appalling.

Same thing happened at the previous fight v Hughie Fury. I don’t think many are aware it’s two anthems. The NZ one also has a Maori verse followed by an English one so it does last quite a while! Still, booing is poor form.

[Pretty Boy]

I don't really understand the reaction to AJ after the fight, not really on here but across social media and some of the media.

A few years back when Joshua was blowing away journeymen it was 'wait until this guy from NZ Parker gets a hold of him'. The fight is made, Joshua shows a more than decent level of boxing skill and beats a live opponent pretty comfortably and it's 'that was boring', 'look how poor he is when in with a real boxer'.

I think the mists of time make everyone believe there was never a bad (tactical?) heavyweight fight pre 2005. Ali, Frasier, Foreman et al were in a few stinkers and had their share of points wins. Lennox Lewis was a master at keeping distance with the jab and throwing the big right sparingly; he was booed out the ring for doing exactly that to another famous Kiwi many moons ago.

Though they won't admit it I actually think Fury, Wilder, Povetkin etc will be more worried seeing Joshua box to a plan and show some skill behind the jab than they may have been if he had gone in and tried to blast Parker out.

I thought both boxed well, Joshua used his attributes well and was the better boxer over the piece.

[Tobias Funke]

I don't really understand the reaction to AJ after the fight, not really on here but across social media and some of the media.

A few years back when Joshua was blowing away journeymen it was 'wait until this guy from NZ Parker gets a hold of him'. The fight is made, Joshua shows a more than decent level of boxing skill and beats a live opponent pretty comfortably and it's 'that was boring', 'look how poor he is when in with a real boxer'.

I think the mists of time make everyone believe there was never a bad (tactical?) heavyweight fight pre 2005. Ali, Frasier, Foreman et al were in a few stinkers and had their share of points wins. Lennox Lewis was a master at keeping distance with the jab and throwing the big right sparingly; he was booed out the ring for doing exactly that to another famous Kiwi many moons ago.

Though they won't admit it I actually think Fury, Wilder, Povetkin etc will be more worried seeing Joshua box to a plan and show some skill behind the jab than they may have been if he had gone in and tried to blast Parker out.

I thought both boxed well, Joshua used his attributes well and was the better boxer over the piece.


:top marksExcellent summary.

[Steve-O]

I don't really understand the reaction to AJ after the fight, not really on here but across social media and some of the media.

A few years back when Joshua was blowing away journeymen it was 'wait until this guy from NZ Parker gets a hold of him'. The fight is made, Joshua shows a more than decent level of boxing skill and beats a live opponent pretty comfortably and it's 'that was boring', 'look how poor he is when in with a real boxer'.

I think the mists of time make everyone believe there was never a bad (tactical?) heavyweight fight pre 2005. Ali, Frasier, Foreman et al were in a few stinkers and had their share of points wins. Lennox Lewis was a master at keeping distance with the jab and throwing the big right sparingly; he was booed out the ring for doing exactly that to another famous Kiwi many moons ago.

Though they won't admit it I actually think Fury, Wilder, Povetkin etc will be more worried seeing Joshua box to a plan and show some skill behind the jab than they may have been if he had gone in and tried to blast Parker out.

I thought both boxed well, Joshua used his attributes well and was the better boxer over the piece.

Agree mostly but I don’t think many were saying “wait till Parker gets hold of him”. Parker’s career has followed a similar, if less spectacular, trajectory to Joshua. Certainly nobody in NZ thought of him as the favourite in this match. If anything, he’s proven a few people wrong who thought he was nowhere near Joshua. Probably me included, if I’m honest.

[Tobias Funke]

Wilder confirmed today he is willing to fight AJ in the UK this summer, 60/40 split agreed apparantly. I really hope they get this signed off as soon as possible and before any mandatory fights are set in place.