Joseph Parker: record, next fight and profile →
Frank Warren, co-promoter of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, indicates that his boxer will never face good friend Joseph Parker, who previously held the WBO strap.
Tony Yoka is prepared to revisit an old rivalry from his amateur days. BoxingScene.com has confirmed that Paris’ Yoka—a 2016 Olympic Gold medalist and current rising heavyweight contender—has accepted an invitation from the IBF to enter talks for a final title eliminator versus Croatia’s Filip Hrgovic. His decision comes just before the three-day deadline to decide whether to pursue such a fight. “Tony Yoka has formally accepted tonight in writing the challenge to fight Filip Hrgovic in a final IBF Final Eliminator for the heavyweight world championship,” Nisse Sauerland of Wasserman Boxing, Hrgovic’s co-promoter announced Thursday afternoon via social media. “’El Animal has found a dance partner.”
David Higgins, the manager of former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker, explains that an IBF final eliminator with Filip Hrgovic makes no financial sense. Parker won a tough fight last month in his rematch with Derek Chisora.
Promoter Kalle Sauerland, who represents heavyweight contender Filip Hrgovic, wants the IBF to throw down the hammer at their top contenders - because top rated fighters are refusing to take part in a final world title eliminator with Hrgovic.
Eddie Hearn feels Joseph Parker has earned another heavyweight title shot. The former WBO champion has won six consecutive fights since he lost back-to-back 12-round unanimous decisions to Anthony Joshua and Dillan Whyte in 2018. New Zealand’s Parker hasn’t participated in a world championship match since he lost his WBO belt to Joshua in their title unification fight in March 2018 at Principality Stadium in Cardiff, Wales.
This past Saturday night in Manchester, heavyweight contender Derek Chisora once again lived up to his nickname as he went to war with former WBO world champion Joseph Parker.
Eddie Hearn has seen many of Derek Chisora’s grittiest performances from a front-row seat. Even Hearn marveled, however, at the veteran heavyweight’s remarkable resilience Saturday night. Like virtually everyone else who watched Chisora’s immediate rematch with Joseph Parker
Parker, Chisora Rematch Photos Gallery - Manchester - In a heavyweight rematch, former WBO world champion Joseph Parker (30-2, 21 KOs) dropped Derek Chisora (32-12, 23 KOs) on his way to a unanimous decision win in a wild heavyweight fight. (photos by Mark Robinson)
Joseph Parker repeated his victory over Derek Chisora, but there was no controversy this time, instead all there could be was admiration for Chisora’s remarkable resistance as he withstood a battering from Parker for nearly the entire 12 rounds in Manchester.
Parker, Chisora Scorecard BoxingScene Live - Live on DAZN this Saturday from AO Arena, Manchester, JOSEPH PARKER and DEREK CHISORA get back in the ring to settle the score once and for all, after the New Zealand heavyweight won their first clash by split decision in May 2021.