Parker-Takam - Winner gets AJ - Sky Sports 3 - 11am UK

[palmerq]

Just watched it on youtube, pretty good fight.. Really good learning experience for parker, I had him winning 115-113. Takam isn't going to win a world title but he is strong, tough, fit and at 240lbs he isn't going to be easy to bully and push around. I think parker showed some good potential and some weakness, takam was catching him pretty easy with the left counters early on. Parker was also close to punching himself out in round 8(i think ), he did well to come back after looking exhausted. He certainly needs to tighten up his defence, pace himself a bit better and try to clinch and lean when he it would benefit him(although it is hard to do that against a very strong guy like takam in my opinion). Parker certainly answered a lot of the standard questions about prospects, he seems to be able to take a punch and fight for twelve rounds, he did look tired at times but recovered well against an in shape contender.

I don't think parker is ready to fight for the title, I hope he takes on another two or three really good contenders before going for a title. I think taking on Duhaupass then pulev would be the best bet for him(if possible :S), duhaupass isn't great but has proved his toughness, is tall and seems to pack a punch going from his recent win over helenius, Pulev is also another really good contender and would provide brilliant experience before a title fight.. I think he will go for Joshua next and probably get ko'd but whatever he is still young at 24 so he can come back after that



also takam v chisora would be a really fun fight, someone should make that happen !