Fight at a super fast clip in those early rounds, use lots of feints. Like others have said, avoid getting on to the back foot at all costs, use the double jab and go to the body! If he can do 50% of that without taking too much punishment he has a shot in the mid to late rounds to take a gassing Joshua out. Realistically Parker has to fight the perfect fight and Joshua has to have a slightly off night. But if you've watched boxing often enough you've seen that happen plenty of times in the past.
I would bet my life that it's not 28%.
If and when the split is finally officially revealed, I guarantee you it'll be approximately halfway between 30-35, just as Higgins said.
Hearn repeatedly offered 30%. Yet you believe Higgins then somehow negotiated Hearn down to 28%? Doesn't make any sense.
You are correct. I DO know someone at Duco and while they wouldn't confirm the exact amount to me it was not the 35 that they wanted and more than the 30 Hearn was publicly offering although his opening offer was a flat fee paltry $3 million USD, LOL. Can't blame Fast Eddie for throwing out a softball offer just to see what happens.)
So you'd have to say they met somewhere in the middle, and 'yes' it is a % of the total pot.
I never said the article said 35%. 30-35% is the number Higgins gave. :dunce:
From what I understand out of that camp they didn't quite get the 35% they were after but they got more than 30% Hearn was offering at one stage, so I would guess they probably ended up splitting the difference and Parker will be getting around 32/33% of the whole pot. The key to this is the 'whole pot' part. Eddie Hearn's preference was to give them a flat fee which they turned down straight away. So, that being the case I would suggest that the figures supplied in this article are probably a 'guesstimation' and not something posters in this thread should get too wound up about.
I must say for a small outfit with a barely known fighter they really negotiated Hearn into the ground on this one. Joshua is a HUGE name and realistically could've fought anyone yet due to their amateur shenanigans and constant callouts they managed to get under AJ's skin enough that he basically demanded this fight.
Throw in the rematch split which sits at 55/45 in Parker's favour and should he pull the upset he would be able to retire should he lose the rematch.
He can outfox Rigondeaux but can't outfox Salido, A journeyman who has lost over a doesn't times and has been knocked out several times? It seems people will buy anything these days.
I don't know but these guys just quitting without sustaining any injuries or being hurt once in the fight is a little suspect to me.
Dude that was like his 2nd pro fight. Who would you have out your money on if it was salido and not Rigo in there on Saturday?
I love troll threads like this one that start with 'I think we can all agree' as if what the TS is about to post is the most natural thing in the world, something like 'when the suns shines brightly it gets hot.' But instead goes on to make an outlandish statement like the one above.
I must admit it did give me a good chuckle.
Floyd Boys=Soy Boys
Literally all those guys you mentioned had a better record than Loma does now. I've never seen a fighter with a 10-1 record get the praise Loma is getting. That fight wasn't even exciting at all but certain people are saying it's exciting because they were watching a guy who looked like them pull off an easy victory. Loma only landed 16 percent of his punches on Rigo, never dropped him, never hurt him, never wobbled him. And STILL people want to praise that performance. It's absurd.
It was amazing to see someone out fox and dazzle someone of Rigo's pedigree to the point that Rigo flat out quit. That was shocking in itself, especially as he was able to do the same thing to another elite fighter in Walters.
And if anyone brings up Rigo's 'injury' for the stoppage, ask yourself this, would james Toney or Evander Holyfield ever quit with an injury such as that one?
I’ve read 6 pages of this thread and no one can tell me who Vitality beat. Golovkin beat a very impressive Danny Jacobs and drew with a fighter who will end up going down as an ATG in Canelo Alvarez, a fight that the majority of fans and boxing experts believe Golovkin actually won. Now all that being the case, can someone, anyone tell me who of note Vitali actually won against?
Except that that wouldn't make sense; Apollo Creed was a long retired fighter, looking to come back and make a bit of coin fighting a novice pro in an exhibition.
If Creed beats Wheeler, he'd basically be the light heavyweight kingpin just peaking as a pro.
Maybe Drago could be like Loma some Olympic type freak ready to challenge early in the pros. Release the 3rd Creed movie 2 or so years after the 2nd which allows Creed some defences and Drago to fight 15 times and call out Creed after every fight he wins on the way up. Mocking his deceased father and turning it into a grudge match and super fight.
Would rather not validate the IBO belt in film, but that would seem to be the only way you could pull off the story; the only way you keep a fighter as talented as Ivan Drago's son from going global would be to hide him out, fighting for a prize that the world doesn't really value just yet
Or at the end of the movie you could have young Drago winning Olympic gold and announce that he is going to go pro and target Creed the way his own father did.
Wilder carries his power into the late rounds. That's a unique skill in the heavyweight division.
Yes this. And that right hand has so much power he realistically only needs one opening per fight. Modern HW's don't possess the type of skill and defensive techniques that fighters did in the past, hence Deontay will always get the one opening he needs. In some respects he can be a little bit like David Tua; behind on the scorecards, not showing much and then boom! the other guy makes half a mistake and that's all he needs.
He will lose one day as his own defence is leaky and while his chin may be better than first thought I don't think it is an iron chin either. No-one can deny though, he's exciting to watch and makes the division a lot more fun.
This coward went 2 weight above and look heavy ass hell tonight salido will tax that ass again this dude likes to beat up little fellas.
If he is such a coward why is he so keen to get Salido into the ring again?
I agree. But he's no more of a "scumbag" of other fighters I mentioned who beat women, traumatized young children (beating their moms), say hateful things about other races and are intolerable of others choices. Or a guy that used a young mans injury to promote his show and then not follow trough.
I am pointing out to hypocrisy.
Where is the hypocrisy? Beating a woman is despicable, racism is despicable. If you want others to be equal in their condemnation then you too need to practice what you preach. Having had a quick scroll through this thread I haven't seen you come out and condemn him for his racism.
He said what a lot of posters here subscribe too that black is superior.
It's not like he made racist comments about another race, made sexist comments in addition to homophobic comments and also beat up women or backed Trumps actions like a fighter that's worshipped about these places that's a scumbag.
Or another one who used a brain injury of a young fighter to sell a fight and promised everything and did nothing but leave the kid to suffer like another fighter that's worshipped.
Or like Wilder who choked out and beat up a woman and assaulted another fighter in front of that fighters family including young kids.
Why are they not scumbags? Why do your condone that behavior but say Joshua is a scumbag based on allegedly typing "superior race" afterall you clearly believe the superior race thing.
I can't say he's a scumbag or not. I don't know the guy doesn't seem like he's done anything as bad as those others fighters who are angels.
Also Hopkins said he'd never lose to a white boy but then got his ass kicked nobody critisized him. A convicted thief.
I like how you've had to bring up a bunch of other boxers in order to give what Joshua said a pass.
We are discussing what Joshua said and what Joshua said alone. Pointing out what other fighters have done/said is a completely different conversation/thread.
When you are talking about 'the superior black race' you by very definition subscribing that other races are inferior to that race. That's racist. Just turn it around and see what sort of blowback a white fighter would get if they said they are 'the superior white race.' They would cop a lot of sh1t for it, and rightly so. Racism is racism whichever way you cut it.
I've long suspected that the public image of Joshua is somewhat manufactured. he was a scumbag drug dealer before and just because he has become a successful fighter doesn't mean his personality has necessarily changed. I'm looking forward to seeing the facade crumble and find out what sort of dude AJ truly is. We might be treated to a Mike Tyson car wreck over the next few years which would be awesome :lol1::lol1:
Not giving him a pass I'm just stating it's funny how the one poster (and a number of others) who are up in arms over something they live by (black is better) yet worship and defend actions like women beaters, sexists, racists, homophobes and fighters who go back on their words to help others.
fair enough, but if Joshua really did put this on his twitter feed (and it seems that he did) it's A) Pretty dumb B) pretty unsavoury and C) Should not be tolerated by the media.
On the live stream of Parker whooping Fury's roiding ass, Khan was broadcasting and is beginning to slur. Sounds like he has too much spit in his mouth between words and you cant see him struggling to put words together. It's kind of hard to tell because of his accent but compared to how he sounded a year ago its real obvious.
Interesting as I noticed this too. he did sound a little punchy to me and obviously I'm not the only one that picked up on it.
Prime Jones at 168 embarrasses Ward. Toney and Calzaghe too. I might favor Benn and Eubank as well. Hopkins would out-dirty him in a very ugly fight.
I agree, Ward was lucky to fight in a solid but not spectacular division. If he had been fighting in the era you've mentioned he takes some losses for sure.
Crawford is almost certain lock for FUTURE p4p champ but his resume simply doesn't warrant it right now. he'll get there no doubt but when Postol and a serial underachiever in Gamboa are your best wins you can't claim that spot just yet. Luckily there is a bunch of super fights available for him to prove his mettle.
As of right now Keith Thurman has some better wons than Crawford (although I believe Crawford to be the better fighter.)
Sauerland seems like he really needed a line there at the end. Was getting a lil antsy & moving his mouth all weird.
Jesus can you imagine if he and David Higgins from Duco ever co-promote a fight together? It would look like a scene from Scarface.
Sure, he got my respect. He is an excellent fighter,
much improved in the last 3 years.
he lost though... no shame in losing to gennady.
This is how I see it too. He fought well, tons of courage, he has my respect, he didn't win though.
Canelo beat ggg and made him look like a bum.
But canelo haters are strong they will never give him credit even if he stops ggg in the rematch
Wow, must be that there is a ton of ex champions plus current fighters really hate Canelo as practically the entire professional boxing community had Canelo losing.
After watching Pac get done over by the refs, now Golovkin get done over by the refs I'm also looking at some hometown cooking for this one. I think Parker probably wins the fight but expect Hughie to win the decision. the appointment of Terry O'Conner to ref this one points to it going that way.
ur all just saying what hbo said word for word. not saying u dont have ur own opinion just seems like what hbo narrates people follow
Nope, I watched every minute of that first fight and I wasn't watching the HBO feed and I was shocked when Choco didn't get the nod. I was also shocked to see the change in dynamics between the 2 fighters from the previous fight considering (my opinion only) that the wrong guy won and the wrong guy lost the previous one.
I really thought that Chocolatito won the first fight and fairly handily. However even though he got a bad rub on the scorecards it's like the loss and losing his '0' sapped the mojo right out of him. And as for Rungvisai it appears the opposite, even though he must know he got a lucky decision he has somehow grown in confidence and couldn't be denied in the rematch. It's really strange.