Comments Thread For: Joseph Parker will now fight Martin Bakole following Daniel Dubois withdrawal

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I smell a rat. Is Daniel really unable to fight?

[Lefty0616]

Turki is doing his part to bring fans back to the sport of boxing, and the boxers and not doing theirs. We are witnessing a sad state of affairs.

[4truth]

I hope Bakole is in decent shape and gives a good account of himself. With a full camp I'd lean toward him beating Parker.

Either way it turns out, I'm sure Bakole is going to be happy with his check.


Poor Frank Warren

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[Slip jab]

Nice. I’m loving the new bscene format. Looks great

[hogey]

Decent last minute replacement but I’m not having all this Bakole mega hype he has only fought one real top level fighter Mike Hunter and got outboxed and stopped. He has not wanted to go anywhere near Hunter since for good reason. Bakoli does have fast hands, painfully slow feet, decent power and most worrying for this fight even after full training camp not great stamina. Turning up on the day before the fight completely out of shape his only chance is to come out swinging to try and catch Parker which is not likely to happen. Can see Parker boxing him at range for 3-4 rounds before Bakole is totally out of gas then he will step it up and stop him in the 5th.

[champion4ever]

Joseph Parker should win this fight hands down. He's faster and is the overall more scientific, skilled and fundamentally sound of the two. While Bakole can punch like mule; However at the same time he is still very slow.

If Parker can manage to not trade with him, avoid the exchanges, move, box and keep the fight in the center of the ring then he should be successful. However, if he ever gets caught then it's a wrap.

Preparation and conditioning should play a major factor in this fight. Fighting a guy as a late replacement on just a 2 days notice is going to be very tough.

48 hours is such a small window in order to prepare for a fight of this magnitude.

[nghtmr111]

Joseph Parker deserves a lot of respect. I will still be rooting for him as I already was, had he fought Dubois.

[crimsonfalcon07]

Joseph Parker should win this fight hands down. He's faster and is the overall more scientific, skilled and fundamentally sound of the two. While Bakole can punch like mule; However at the same time he is still very slow.

If Parker can manage to not trade with him, avoid the exchanges, move, box and keep the fight in the center of the ring then he should be successful. However, if he ever gets caught then it's a wrap.

Preparation and conditioning should play a major factor in this fight. Fighting a guy as a late replacement on just a 2 days notice is going to be very tough.

48 hours is such a small window in order to prepare for a fight of this magnitude.

At least Bakole and Dubois have similar strengths. Both hit hard, have high volume early, and like to fight on the front foot. Neither is known for being evasive. They both fight orthodox and Bakole has an inch shorter reach, but almost an inch more height. I would expect Parker to fight both with the same gameplan. And I'm not convinced Bakole will be in better shape than Dubois would have been.

Parker has the quality to show if Bakole is legit at the world level, just as Bakole was enough to show that Anderson is more hype than substance. If Bakole can dismiss Parker in style, he'll certainly be hard to deny for a title shot, especially as the WBO is due, and Parker has the WBO title shot. I think WBA Pulev would be next, and nobody cares about that.

[Honest]

Dubois...or dubious if you want...
Once a quitter, always a quitter! No way he was ill, he was bat**** scared and scarred! Mentally! He fought and beat a low mobility robot, Joshua and an overrated nobody, Hrgovic. That's all about dubious Dan....
Shame on him

[hitmanjosh]

Joseph Parker has balls if nothing else because Bakole is one dangerous MF'er! In fact short notice, notice if it were I, I wouldn't notice because I'm not fighting him!