Joseph Parker has fulfilled his dream of becoming a WBO boxing world champion but says he's already looking ahead towards heavyweight domination. [Click Here To Read More]
I hope Parker's team realises he's still got a lot of work to do and goes for a couple of soft fights first. At 24, no reason he couldn't pack those in very quickly and still take on one of the other guys within a year.
I don't think the fight was as entertaining as the article suggest... However, I hope unifications do start to happen. Wilder, Joshua, Parker, Wlad, and Ortiz need to start fighting each other.Throw Povetkin and Fury (when he gets back) in there too. It's dragged on wayy too long as is... There are only 2 or 3 fights between these 7 guys. Terrible...
I hope Parker's team realises he's still got a lot of work to do and goes for a couple of soft fights first. At 24, no reason he couldn't pack those in very quickly and still take on one of the other guys within a year.
Parker turns 25 next month which means he will be 25 at his next fight.
He'll have to fight David Haye next and I'd have to take Haye in that fight.
Haye has only really had two HW fights against opposition rated anywhere at the time he fought them, Klitschko and Valuev, both over 5 years ago.
The Valuev fight was notable in how bad a fight it was, and Haye never built a record of fighting rated heavyweights at or near their prime.
Given 5 years of relative inactivity on top of all that, Haye's a bit of an unknown against any of the top guys these days. Only thing certain is that he won't be as sharp as he was 5 years ago.
Haye has only really had two HW fights against opposition rated anywhere at the time he fought them, Klitschko and Valuev, both over 5 years ago.
The Valuev fight was notable in how bad a fight it was, and Haye never built a record of fighting rated heavyweights at or near their prime.
Given 5 years of relative inactivity on top of all that, Haye's a bit of an unknown against any of the top guys these days. Only thing certain is that he won't be as sharp as he was 5 years ago.
Haye still has speed and power that the other opponents Parker has faced do not have.
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