Former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker is now a promotional free agent, according to his manager David Higgins.
Parker's career has been guided for the last few years, for the most part, by Eddie Hearn's Matchroom Boxing.
Back in December, Parker headlined Matchroom card in Manchester, where he picked up a dominant twelve round unanimous decision win in his rematch with Derek Chisora.
Higgins explains that Parker is open to working with Hearn again - if the right fight comes about.
"Where we left it was, we work well together, and they're good to work with, there were no arguments or anything like that," Higgins told Newshub.
"It's good because if there's a Matchroom fight that makes sense, they know we're good to work with and we can quickly make a deal."
Parker is exploring options in the United States and UK.
The preference, details Higgins, is to fight a top name in America.
"Effectively, that means he can fight anywhere with any TV network and work with any promoter - which is a good thing," Higgins said.
"When you're younger on the way up it's helpful to have a big promoter, but it can be limiting in that some of them [promoters] don't get on with each other and are tied to certain TV networks. It's basically all options on the table, and I think we'll land something quite big in that window between April and June. With Joseph, now he's got a worldwide profile and a proven pay-per-view draw, he doesn't really need that.
"So right now we're free to have discussions with say Frank Warren's team about Joe Joyce, who's been breathing down our neck. Joseph's a household name in New Zealand, Australia, parts of Asia, the UK and parts of Europe. America's kind of next. Tyson Fury's probably the only one of the current crop that's gone (there) and strung together some wins. The holy grail of boxing is to be on a pay per view card on both sides of the Atlantic."
