Comments Thread For: Joseph Parker explains why he's rolling the dice against Fabio Wardley

[Joseph]

I think Parker is going to have little issues with Wardley...

Same, but Wardley's size, speed, and power might prove otherwise. His boxing skills certainly won't.

This is an intriguing, dangerous fight for both guys. I am excited.

[TMLT87]

Honestly I dont think this is going to be the mismatch some are expecting. It could backfire for Joe.

[hugh grant]

Honestly I dont think this is going to be the mismatch some are expecting. It could backfire for Joe.

I think it will be a war. Parker barely beat zhang. All i.can say i d pick parker to win. There will be nervous moments though. Fabio wont necessarily be as bad as in last fight, it was a wake up call, and Fabio.mightve got act together.

[joe strong]

Same, but Wardley's size, speed, and power might prove otherwise. His boxing skills certainly won't.

This is an intriguing, dangerous fight for both guys. I am excited.

Wardley has wins over Clarke, Adeleye & Huni. Totally unproven in my eyes. Huni beat Kevin Lerena & nobody else. Huni was clearly outboxing Wardley from my understanding until he got caught. I won’t be shocked if Parker takes him out early. I will be picking him to beat Wardley…

[pollywog]

I would back Anthony Joshua 1000% to completely laser out Joseph Parker, in a rematch 'And decimate him' etc.

lol...the only reason Parker hasn't annihilated Joshua in a rematch is because the giant glass jawed robot has had duck fever since 2018 when the ref helped job a naive Joe out of his belt.

The Mighty Oilskin Parker has met, faced and overcome every challenge the powers that be have cöckblocked him with since, even though he got splattered by Prime Juggernaut in a fight for the ages!

Fury made him his best bud as an excuse to duck him. He totally negated Wilder, and the faceplanting b-boy AJ doesnt deserve a shot at 2025 Prime Oilskin.

Joshua doesn't deserve a shot at anybody unless he avenges the loss to Sniffles Dubois who also developed Duck fever at the thought of facing Parker.

Face it bruh, your heavyweight mountains are brokeback losers who never grand unified to become undisputed as they were too busy playing a-side bullshït until they couldn't get it up anymore.

...and now no one gives a flying fück about them while Parker is flying high and should be cruising to an inevitable date with Usyk...Inshallah.

[joe strong]

Calm down people, with all the praise for Joseph Parker 'he has been a professional fighter, for a longer period of time than Anthony Joshua. But since 2018? He has been a non-factor in the Heavyweight Divisions until very recently. Those are the facts'.

For the better part of half a decade, during the peak years of the Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder heavyweight reigns. Joseph Parker was doing nothing much in the sport, accept being beaten by fighters like Dillian Whyte and smashed up by Joe Joyce. Yes of course? Joseph Parker as always displayed fairly commendable efforts against those fighters, but guess what? He was still beaten. Still smashed up.

So let's all clam down with this over exaggerated praise for Joseph Parker, like he is the boxing version of Conan the Barbarian 'as I see some people comparing him to Tyson Fury. Whether people like fighters such as Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder the facts of this heavyweight era are? That they have been the premier champions, the Heavyweight Mountains of this era. The main characters of this boxing era if it was being made into a cinematic piece.

Joseph Parker has not been one of the premier champions, and neither is he one of the main characters of this heavyweight era. He has only just very recently, decided that he wants to play around at top level in the sport

Note: What I am saying is real? In 2018 Anthony Joshua beat a unbeaten Joseph Parker easy, without getting out of second gear. In December 2023 Joseph Parker beat Deontay Wilder, in a extremely underwhelming fight. Great win for Parker, but skill for skill? The fight was nothing special. So that is 5 years, at the absolute peak of this Heavyweight era where Joseph Parker was a non-factor in the game'.

And this was not because all of those fighters like Fury, Joshua and Wilder 'were all avoiding him. It was because, when the going got tough? Joseph Parker was beaten, and smashed up again and again'

Anthony Joshua has been living at this level since 2017, and I don't see certain folk praising him 'Fabio Wardley is a domestic level fighter, a fighter with zero amateur experience. Yes he is a solid and game fighter, but? As a fighter that is how I would best describe him now at this point in his career'.

But even still, I think Joseph Parker's fans should not get too ahead of themselves 'there is a big difference, between losing at elite level in the sport. Like the way Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua have, compared? To losing against fighter like Dillian Whyte, Joe Joyce and some people even say he lost against Hughie Fury. I personally don't think Parker lost against Hughie Fury, but the very fact that enough respected people in the game? Can all share a common opinion that Hughie Fury beat Joseph Parker, shows you that Parker has never been on the level of Tyson Fury, Anthony Joshua or even Deontay Wilder at his peak'.

Joseph Parker should really beat Fabio Wardley, but as the fight draws closer 'the chances of Fabio Wardley winning are increasing. When you really check the resumes of Parker and Wardley. Then Fabio Wardley has arguable been fighting and beating the more in form fighters. Frazier Clarke twice, and then Justis Huni. All of those fighters were well prepared for their fights against Wardley, and they came to win'.

Joseph Parker in comparison has fought, Deontay Wilder, Zhilei Zhang, and then Martin Bakole. Wilder was miles outside of his peak, Parker still was unable to deck him. Zhilei Zhang? It is a solid win, but in my opinion an overrated win. Big deal, Anthony Joshua smashed up Zhang during his 2012 Olympic tournament win'.

And then we have Martin Bakole, here we go 'I will make a new paragraph for this one. You can all sit down and listen to this? Martin Bakole is not super talent heavyweight fighter. The man was for a professional athlete, grossly out of condition for his fight vs Joseph Parker. Bakole did no event turn up to win vs Parker; he was just taking a good business opportunity. Billy Nelson a boxing coach who I respect, has in his own words stated this? Martin Bakole has come a long way in the game, from when he first started being trained by Nelson. Sometimes fighters, just have to take opportunities when they are presented to them'.

So I personally don't rate Joseph Parker's win over Martin Bakole very highly, he beat a fighter who was operating at around 20% of his full game. And even if Martin Bakole was 100% conditioned. Skill for skill he is not a super talented fighter, and he never shown any real clutch game. The last time Bakole was in a fight, where the going got tough vs Michael Hunter, a former Cruiserweight fighter who has never been renowned for his brute strength or power. Michael Hunter was still able to beat up and force the stoppage vs Martin Bakole.

To conclude: So overall, like I stated at the beginning of my post 'people all need to calm down, with this recent over exaggerated praise of Joseph Parker. If he wins vs Fabio Wardley, I would like to see him ether fight Oleksandr Uysk in a title fight or Anthony Joshua II in a rematch'.

I would back Anthony Joshua 1000% to completely laser out Joseph Parker, in a rematch 'And decimate him' etc.

You could probably shorten your post by just saying you have your AJ poster on the wall & your Joshua PJs on 24/7...