By Frank Warren
What a shame our man Hughie Fury sustained the untimely back injury that prevented him making the trip to New Zealand to challenge for the WBO world heavyweight title held by Joseph Parker.
Had he stayed fit I am convinced we would now still be celebrating a new heavyweight champion and the second from the Fury family.
However, contrary to what the commentators would prefer you to believe, it is still only a matter of time before Hughie can prove he has got the beating of Parker.
Parker’s limitations were exposed by his lowly-ranked sparring partner Razvan Cojanu who, without carrying any obvious threat, managed to make the Kiwi look ordinary.
Despite his current status, Parker isn’t living up to his early promise and I truly believe Hughie will have too much for him.
There was a lot of name-dropping going on during the Saturday morning transmission on Sky, but you can forget about the likes of Tony Bellew or Dillian Whyte jumping the queue to fight Parker.
The WBO have made very clear that Hughie is the mandatory challenger and will be fighting Parker next – there will be nothing in-between.
The financials for the fight can remain as they are or, if Parker’s team want to change it, we can negotiate or go back to purse bids.
We’ve got 30 days to negotiate if they want to give up their previous purse bid and if terms cannot be agreed then the bidding process will start again.
The fight has to take place within 120 days.
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