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Watch Parker go backwards, getting pummeled and knocked out.Quote:
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Probably, which is one reason I hate Barry.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterWatch Parker go backwards, getting pummeled and knocked out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha
I know you hate Hearn but you need to start listening to him so you can see what's happening. AJ won't be fighting Wilder next.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterYou are wrong, watch AJ beat Parker and Wilder beat Ortiz. Followed by AJ knocking out Wilder to unify the titles.Quote:
Originally Posted by east end bob
AJ will unify eventually that is for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron SwansonI know you hate Hearn but you need to start listening to him so you can see what's happening. AJ won't be fighting Wilder next.Quote:
Originally Posted by MasterYou are wrong, watch AJ beat Parker and Wilder beat Ortiz. Followed by AJ knocking out Wilder to unify the titles.Quote:
Originally Posted by east end bob
AJ has brought Takam over as a sparring partner as he wants some "World Class Sparring"
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxin...onent-12142150
Takam's hard as nails and if you want a brick wall he's ideal. A bit more height and mobility would be better I reckon.
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Was thinking that too, Parkers only hope is to be mobile and fast so you'd hope Mcraken has got some slicker sparring partners in as well which i'm sure he has but from what i'm hearing AJ has already shifted some bulk, is looking lean/fast and training his ass off.
If Josh comes in at low 17 stone for this then Parkers getting banged out very early.
I think everyone who saw his last fight said he needs to drop at least a stone before his next fight.Quote:
Originally Posted by smashup
It'll be interesting to see just how much he has shifted at the weigh in
Very tough fight, Parker will be well up for it and could shock the world.
Anthony Joshua SHOULD, pump the jab, move lightly, drop the 1-2, tie up on the inside, break early to punch on the break (kind of illegal, but only if the ref calls it), and end combinations off the hook to put himself in a solid defensive position. Do those things and he wins easy.
Parker has to find a way inside, watch for the jab to come back low and fire a right over the top of it will be his best bet and that being the case left hooks to the body to try and drop that lead arm could be useful. He's going to have to be strong on the inside, keeps his hands free, and be accurate with his punches.
I'd love for this to be a close fight so that way there's action after AJ-Wilder hopefully happens. The heavyweight division could really have some fan friendly style matchups coming up.
I’m assuming that Wilder vs AJ will happen next, but the good thing about Parker winning is that Parker vs Wilder would for sure happen next.
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Josh seems different in this video, comes across with more bad intentions than iv'e seen him before maybe, or is his nervous?
Parker struggles to string two words together and Joshua doesn't want to. Makes for great TV.
Neither wanted to be there, it was pathetic and i think the Human Coconut said more than both fighters put together ;D
Yeah, neither guy wanted to be there. That was clear enough.
Parker is a big guy, bigger than I thought. He is a typical Samoan Kiwi, humble and a man of few words. I think he is embarrassed by the antics of his team but couldn't admit it.
Joshua looked very focused and is now finally showing that he likes to hurt people. He had a lot of clothes on and a hat, but his face was really thin. He has lost some weight and I think he will come in a lot lighter for this fight.
In think he is a bit fearful of Parker, which is a good thing. Interesting that he said more than once that he can't afford to lose, so he does feel the pressure.
I thought he looked a bit drawn in the face, he's definitely coming in lighter for this fight which is bad news for Parker.
Could be an early AJ KO win :cool:
Really liking what i see here from Josh.... Looking slick, fast, dynamic and light on his feet :cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23O7oyxMkcc
Team Parker press conference from this morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uis1u3aQfI0
- Tuesday March 27th: Final press conference 12pm UK time (media only)
- Wednesday March 28th: Public workout for the public at David’s Hall, The Hayes, Cardiff (doors 5.30pm UK time – starts at 6pm).
- Thursday March 29th: Undercard press conference (featuring Alexander Povetkin vs David Price plus others) 12pm doors, 1pm UK time start.
- Friday March 30th: Weigh-ins: Motor Point Arena, Mary Ann Street, Cardiff. 12pm doors open to the public, 1pm UK time start.
So AJ is coming in lighter for this fight...it'd be interesting to see when this advert was filmed.
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...x9_AJ-1984.jpg
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incomin...b/16x9_AJ-.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skBarh0JhoM
Today's Final Presser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twK-VDaVAY0
Parker looks too small to compete with AJ. The size disparity will be the deciding factor. Parker better move and use his speed to survive in this fight.
Sky hyping this fight is way over board.
Joseph Parker will fade between round eight and nine, says Anthony Joshua
As the pounds have slipped off Joseph Parker during 11 weeks of hard training in Las Vegas, so the pounds have come in on the WBO champion to spring a huge upset when he faces Anthony Joshua in their heavyweight unification fight in Cardiff on Saturday.
But Joshua, who likes a punt himself and made £650 at the weekend when his former opponent Dillian Whyte stopped Lucas Browne in the sixth round, is convinced the smart money is on Parker’s fire raging and then fading around round eight or nine.
“The difference is I know how to counter-punch,” said Joshua, who puts his WBA Super and IBF titles on the line, with Parker putting up his WBO belt. “I haven’t seen Parker counter-punching anyone. I’ll punish him when he’s throwing at me, and I’ll punish him when he’s thinking of throwing
“Rounds five to eight, it’ll be a tough night. But, if everything goes to plan I think Parker will fade between round eight and nine.”
After two ferocious and lengthy stare-downs between the pair at their final pre-fight conference Joshua revealed that he is trying to absorb and implement some of the lessons he learned from fighting Wladimir Klitschko last April.
“When I was facing off with him, he was saying: ‘OK, we have done this before and we turn to the front in five, four, three, two’,” Joshua said laughing. “I thought: ‘This motherf**ker is experienced.’
“That was all about control. He was trying to out‑man me a bit. I thought I could look at Parker for 10 minutes but I decided no. When I was facing him off, it is about showing no fear but at the same time I thought: ‘How long will I stand here for?’”
There is something else that Joshua wants to learn from Klitschko – the capacity to stay always hungry and to improve. “I chat to Jonathon Banks, his old trainer, a lot,” he said. “I use the conversations as a way to speak to Klitschko. I ask how he continued to improve. Even in these good times we’re not satisfied.”
Joshua was also tempted to bid for a USB stick that Klitschko had sewed into his robe containing his pre-fight prediction for their contest at Wembley in April last year, which raised £160,000 for charity when auctioned in December.
Joshua said: “My auntie called me a week later: ‘I’ve got this flag from the Olympics, I*was thinking about auctioning it off.’ I was cracking up. I didn’t bid for it. I thought 10 grand would be enough, thought I could be the silent bidder.”
Parker has looked unimpressive in his past three fights – winning decisions against moderate opposition. But he looked trim and noticeably less fleshy around the face – the result, he said, of having resolved elbow problems with “a couple of surgeries”.
“We had restrictions with the elbow in the past,” Parker said. “It didn’t allow us to train at 100%. But this time there are no excuses. If I win this fight, I’m the best in the world; if I lose this fight, then he is the best. The speed is back, the power is back and it is just about executing it on fight night.”
Parker was also dismissive about Joshua’s previous claim that no human can beat him, saying: “You can say it’s arrogance but it’s not realistic. Of course he can be beaten. He is not a god, he is a human being, and I will show on Saturday night that I am going to beat him.”
He insists that, if he has Joshua in trouble, as Klitschko did at Wembley last year, he won’t need a second invitation to put his opponent away. “I have prepared for 12 rounds hard with my coach,” Parker said. “But I know if I catch him clean, he’s out. I am not going to give him a chance to recover. I am going to chase him hard and get him out of there.”
When it was put to Parker that he had got under Joshua’s skin, he nodded. “He looks angry and nervous,” he said. “I am here to win and that is what I am going to do.”
The intensity in his voice suggested Parker meant every word of it.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/boxi...cid=spartanntp
Wilders response to Eddie Hearns views on why he won't be ringside on Saturday night
Eddie Hearn responded exactly the way Deontay Wilder expected.
Wilder figured Anthony Joshua’s promoter would use his decision to not attend the Joshua-Joseph Parker fight Saturday night in Cardiff, Wales, to make it seem as though Wilder won’t fight Joshua if the heavily favored Joshua gets past Parker.
The unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion also assumes boxing fans, even many of Joshua’s strongest supporters in the United Kingdom, won’t buy that false narrative.
“I expected Eddie to do that because he needs something to fool the people,” Wilder told BoxingScene.com on Wednesday. “He needs something to tell them. He’ll tell them anything but the truth. Everybody knows I’m not scared. Everybody in America and half of the people over there in England know Deontay Wilder ain’t scared of no man. I just beat the most craftiest, skillful guy in boxing [Luis Ortiz]. We know who’s scared here. We know who’s been trying to get this fight done.
“Joshua ain’t even mention my name, but I’ve mentioned his name. They don’t want this fight, and so they needed something to fuel their fans up with the excuses, to continue to keep this going. But a lot of the UK fans are waking up, seeing the type of person he really is. They ain’t feeding into the bullsh*t that he’s selling.”
Wilder was supposed to serve as a guest commentator for Sky Sports’ coverage of the heavyweight title unification bout between England’s Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs), the IBF/IBO/WBA champ, and New Zealand’s Parker (24-0, 18 KOs), who owns the WBO title. Once Joshua and Hearn publicly stated that they wouldn’t allow Wilder to confront him in the ring Saturday night, the knockout artist from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, decided his transatlantic trip wouldn’t be worthwhile because it’d only enable Hearn to use that platform to push the fight Hearn really wants to make next – Wilder versus Dillian Whyte.
London’s Whyte (23-1, 17 KOs), who knocked out Australia’s Lucas Browne (25-1, 22 KOs) in the sixth round Saturday night, will be ringside for Joshua-Parker. Hearn’s company, Matchroom Boxing, also promotes Whyte.
Hearn vehemently criticized Wilder’s decision to skip his trip to Cardiff during an interview with iFL TV following the final Joshua-Parker press conference Tuesday (https://www.boxingscene.com/hearn-wi...joshua--126637). Wilder considers Hearn’s reaction to his decision nothing more than propaganda to distract fans and media from the fact that Hearn and Joshua don’t want to fight Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) anytime soon.
“My whole decision of not going to the fight was definitely a team decision, my decision at the end of the day,” Wilder said. “But it was a turnoff when Joshua and his people said that I wouldn’t be allowed in the ring, that he would have extra security and a restraining order and all that stuff. He’s on record saying that. It’s a turnoff to me. The point is why be there if you can’t hype up the biggest heavyweight fight in a long time? They say they want me to hype the fight up, they want me to raise the profile of the fight. What better way than free advertising? That was free advertising. Nobody had to pay for that.
“But they don’t want this fight. They don’t wanna fight me, and that proved it. For that reason, we felt like we didn’t need to go. Because [Hearn’s] whole focus, his whole, main concern, is about another fighter [Dillian Whyte]. It ain’t got nothing to do with me and Joshua. That’s his whole high right now. He’s not trying to make the Joshua fight. He’s trying to make another fight that we don’t want.”
https://www.boxingscene.com/wilder-e...-truth--126645
This public workout is a bit weird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyNPl_L_xU
So Wilder bottled it.Quote:
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It does seem that Wilder wants AJ next but AJ may want an easier fight after Parker and then face Wilder 2019.
Wilder may have face Whyte anyway so best to get that out of the way.
Ha David Price is about to start his public workout now, the big lummox looks in better shape than his last few outings anyway
Well old Pricey is showing here that he will never become a professional skipper
What Josh is doing right now is what Wilder needs to learn from, spending hours with the fans, signing gloves, shaking hands and taking selfies for them all.
The arrogant wanker should be in Wales already Hyping the fuck out of himself, gatecrashing AJ's party and bringing the noise.
Foolish move by team Wilder and his Team not to grab this chance with both hands.
Ffs! I cannot believe my eyes. I am currently watching Hearn and Parker’s promoter (David Higgins) doing a “Gloves are off” style programme on Sky. Fucking Pathetic!
This fucking bird on Sky is all over the Boxing coverage. Anna Woolhouse. Fair play, she’s fucking tidy. I’m off to see if there’s any porno shots of her on the net!
So Wilder refuses to attend the fight because Hearn will not allow him to enter the ring???. Isn't that the whole point of storming the ring. Or at least stand up and be heard in the mans presence. Besides aren't ring interviews not allowed so it's done ringside? Will not allow me so I'm not going ffs, round 1 to AJ and Hearn. That sounds like a cop out.
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Just flicking through this... Pricey either hasn't skipped before or bottled it (he wobbled at one point when the rope flicked his ear), Parker and especially Crolla mugged him right off with the skipping.
Booth, Burnett and Kelly are seemingly oblivious to how camp/bender-ish they look doing that synchronised pad shit, two boy band members and Simon Cowell with mitts.
There are none. I have looked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Primo Carnera
Yup, I'm all for selling a fight but that was pretty embarrassing throughoutQuote:
Originally Posted by FensterQuote:
Originally Posted by Batman
Just flicking through this... Pricey either hasn't skipped before or bottled it (he wobbled at one point when the rope flicked his ear), Parker and especially Crolla mugged him right off with the skipping.
Booth, Burnett and Kelly are seemingly oblivious to how camp/bender-ish they look doing that synchronised pad shit, two boy band members and Simon Cowell with mitts.
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Originally Posted by BatmanYup, I'm all for selling a fight but that was pretty embarrassing throughoutQuote:
Originally Posted by FensterQuote:
Originally Posted by Batman
Just flicking through this... Pricey either hasn't skipped before or bottled it (he wobbled at one point when the rope flicked his ear), Parker and especially Crolla mugged him right off with the skipping.
Booth, Burnett and Kelly are seemingly oblivious to how camp/bender-ish they look doing that synchronised pad shit, two boy band members and Simon Cowell with mitts.
Speaking of Embarrassing................ When the fuck did Sky start doing the Gloves are off with promoters? ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QFof75vX_A
I just watched a programme that was on last night showing all Joshua’s KO’s. It’s so noticeable how much more mobile and how quick his hands were in the early days. Ok , he was raw, and his defence wasn’t great, but I just think he needs to go back to that speed and mobility.
There’s a lot been said about him being lighter this time round. As far as I’m concerned, he has to come in as close to 17 stone (238lbs) as possible. Ideally he’ll be 240lbs, but for all the talk, I still reckon at best he will be about 17 stone 10lbs. (248lbs).