Joseph Parker: record, next fight and profile →
WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (24-0, 18 KOs) is very confident that he would score knockout victories over both WBC champion Deontay Wilder (39-0, 38 KOs) and IBF, IBO, WBA champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs). All three champions have been trading words in recent weeks, exchanging jabs at one another in interviews and on social media.
Joseph Parker has drawn his financial line in the sand with Eddie Hearn and Anthony Joshua. The unbeaten WBO champion won’t accept anything less than a 65-35 split for a heavyweight title unification fight against the British superstar. His handlers are pushing for a 60-40 split to secure a Parker-Joshua fight for either March or April.
WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (24-0, 18 KOs) is very confident that IBF, WBA, IBO champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) will never make it to a unification with WBC Deontay Wilder. Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn has already begun discussions for a potential unification bout with Wilder - to take place at some point in 2018.
Since becoming heavyweight champion in April 2016, Joshua has fought at four different British venues – London’s O2 Arena (16,000 fans), Manchester Arena (21,000 fans), London’s Wembley Stadium (90,000 fans) and Cardiff’s Principality Stadium (78,000 fans) – and filled out each one.
According to David Higgins, promoter for WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (24-0, 18 KOs), he's received word from Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs), that their side is willing to budge on their position with respect to the financial terms.
WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (24-0, 18 KOs) is hoping to face IBF, IBO, WBA champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) in a unification encounter in the first quarter of 2018, but he doubts the contest will happen because both sides are so far apart on money. Earlier, Parker's promoter David Higgins claimed that he was furious because they were offered far less than what Charles Martin was paid to stake his title against Joshua in April 2016.
Joseph Parker's promoter suspects the "greedy" Anthony Joshua camp are dragging out negotiations for a unification fight as they fear the Brit would lose his heavyweight titles. Duco Events director David Higgins this week said that Joshua's promoter, Eddie Hearn, had made an insulting offer for a bout with WBO champion Parker. Higgins said they would accept a 60-40 split in IBF, IBO and WBA strap-holder Joshua's favour, but revealed the two parties are a long way from reaching an agreement.
A few days ago, Joseph Parker's promoter was furious after receiving a "ridiculously low offer" from Anthony Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn. According to David Higgins, promoter for WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (24-0, 18 KOs), he was shocked at the "low" offer that was presented to him from Hearn, who promotes IBF, IBO, WBA world champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs).
HUGHIE FURY is totally convinced Joseph Parker will do everything possible to swerve a world heavyweight title rematch because he already knows the result – he’d lose his WBO crown. Fury slipped to his first career defeat against the New Zealander in September with the scoring wildly different as two judges had Parker winning by eight rounds while the third scored it a draw at Manchester Arena.
As reported last week on BoxingScene.com, a heavyweight world title unification between Britain's Anthony Joshua and US rival Deontay Wilder moved a step closer after promoter Eddie Hearn, who handles Joshua, sat down with Wilder's managers Al Haymon and Shelly Finkel to discuss a 2018 encounter. WBA, IBF and IBO world champion Joshua and the WBC title-holder Wilder want the match-up as part of efforts to unify the heavyweight division.