Former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker is eager and ready to face amateur rival Junior Fa - hoping to set the record straight on which of them is the better fighter.

The teams behind Parker and Fa are in deep discussions to face each other in the fall.

At the moment the financial details are being worked out, but the fight is closer to being a reality than it has been in the past.

The boxers met four times in the amateur ranks - and they are 2-2, according to Parker.

Parker has a faced a much higher level of competition with fights against Anthony Joshua, Andy Ruiz, Dillian Whyte and others.

"We fought four times in the amateurs and are 2-2, but things have changed a lot," Parker tells The AM Show. "The level of opposition I have fought is of a much higher calibre.

"Hopefully we can make a deal. I think it will happen - we have given them what they've asked for. If they don't want to sign, then we are prepared to walk away and fight someone else who is keen to fight - we are talking about a lot of money. I am ready to go. I have been training twice a day. I just want to get back in the ring and give someone a beating."

Parker, 28-years-old, has taken some heat from his critics, for facing soft opponents after suffering back to back defeats to Joshua and Whyte in 2018.

"David [Higgins] has tried his best to get top opponents," Parker tells The AM Show.

"People say the quality of my last two opponents has been poor, but we have been trying to fight top-10 guys since my loss to Dillian Whyte - who I have been trying to get a rematch with. It is hard, because those top guys see me as high risk with low reward, so they would rather take fights that are low risk."