Heavyweight contender Junior Fa is more than willing to face former WBO world champion Joseph Parker, if the money is right.
A few weeks ago, Parker took down Shawndell Winters in the fifth round in Frisco, Texas.
In the aftermath of the fight, Parker's manager David Higgins explained he's very interested in exploring a potential all-Kiwi cracker with Fa.
Mark Keddell, the manager for Fa, says the Parker fight was offered back in 2018, but they felt the money was very low. Parker would instead fight and easily beat Alexander Flores.
According to Kendell, Fa is slated to headline a card in the United States on a date in June.
But he makes it clear that his boxer is willing to face Parker if the financial terms are in line.
"Junior wants that fight and we look forward to that fight," Keddell said to News Hub.
"David Higgins has been on the phone to me a couple of times this week and we've let him know that Eddie Hearn needs to deal directly with Lou DiBella (Fa's US-based promoter). Yes we want the fight but let's make it worthwhile.
"Higgins has been on the record saying Parker is getting NZ$2 million a fight, so I look at the maths. When Joshua and Parker fought to unify the titles, Joshua brought two belts, Joe brought one - the split was 66 percent to 34 percent. So I look at number two in the WBO against number six and that's probably a 66-34 percent split.
"So if Parker gets $2 million from a $3 million purse, 33-odd percent of that is NZ$1 million - that's what we want. They asked us for the fight two years ago and we said yes for NZ$500,000, which we thought was a fair number based off where everyone was at - at that time. That's the number that would have got the deal done. They offered NZ$75,000 and we all had a bit of a laugh amongst the team and said 'thanks but no thanks'.
"It's very expensive to build up heavyweight boxers. Promoters spend millions of dollars to get these guys to the level both are at now, so when you do take those tough fights, there needs to be some sort of balance in the investment from promoters."