Tagged with: Joseph Parker
After defying the odds in blunting and then dominating Deontay Wilder in December, Parker has defied the odds in blunting (sort of) and then dominating (on the cards, at least) Zhilei Zhang less than three months later
Joseph Parker, former heavyweight world title holder, fights Deontay Wilder, former heavyweight world title holder, on Sunday NZT over in Saudia Arabia. The second headliner of the so-called Day of Reckoning
It wasn’t exactly Millennium Stadium with nearly 80,000 fans roaring on. Joseph Parker’s thirty-fifth professional boxing bout was a subtle affair that didn’t at all compare to the heights of his career. A Wednesday night scrap in Melbourne against a local Aussie heavyweight…
Joseph Parker had a decent wee victory on the weekend. The kiwi heavyweight took on Englishman Jack Massey in his latest bout and took him out over ten rounds via a comfortable unanimous points decision
Joseph Parker has lost fights before... but never like that. Joe Joyce was always going to be a tough opponent, an undefeated prospect with a powerful amateur record and a distinct size advantage in the bout. Joyce was also somewhat of an unknown prospect
Joseph Parker came in for his rematch with Derek Chisora weighing four and a half kilograms more than he had in their initial fight back in May. 113.9kg: the heaviest he’s ever been for a fight by a comfortable margin, topping his 111.9kg against Andy Ruiz in 2016
Fighters say all sorts of wild things in the lead up to their bouts, particularly when those bouts are on pay per view broadcasts. Gotta take all of that chat with a grain of salt...especially when it’s Joseph Parker.
After his win over Junior Fa back in February, Joseph Parker spoke about getting back to his old rhythms of fighting 3-4 times per year. Something he felt contributed to his rise up the rankings around 2016.
Just eight weeks after the Junior Fa fight, on the opposite side of the world working with a brand new trainer... Joseph Parker was able to dish up a split decision victory over Derek Chisora in Manchester and that W is by far the most important thing.
It wasn’t all that long ago that Joseph Parker was sitting at a press conference in Auckland, Kevin Barry to his side, answering questions about his unanimous decision victory over Junior Fa. It was pretty much just two months ago.
Two things were clear as Aotearoa’s most significant ever clash of heavyweight boxers took place last weekend. One was that Junior Fa was being seriously underrated by a lot of people. The other was that the respective strengths of the two fighters was always going to make a knockout victory for either dude extremely unlikely.
We’ve been through the intricate negotiations, we’ve been through the injury delay, we’ve been through the promotional yarns, we’ve been through the niggly back and forth between camps (mostly), and on Saturday night the hype becomes reality as the most consequential local heavyweight clash in history takes place.
In two weeks’ time there’s a rather significant boxing match gonna take place. Joseph Parker versus Junior Fa, you may have heard about it?
It’s the biggest heavyweight fight we’ve ever seen between two New Zealand boxers and it’s a fight that never would have happened if everything had gone to plan. Two pugilists whose rivalry tracks back more than a decade to their amateur days.
After the crisis comes the recovery, the picking up of the pieces and getting back to something equating normality. For Joseph Parker that means getting into the ring and fighting.
You can’t do a whole lot more than to knock a fella out, right? Joseph Parker and Kevin Barry always talk about how Joe’s gonna knock a bugger out before every fight but here he actually did it.
Joseph Parker’s found himself something to do. Three weeks’ time, away in Texas. He’s gonna be fighting American heavyweight Shawndell Winters in his first fight since coasting past Alex Leapai in Philadelphia exactly eight months earlier.
Things came kinda easy for Joseph Parker early on in his professional career. He made his name in Aotearoa beating up on pensioners in front of drunk corporate crowds and then just as he was winding the corner into actual relevance, the lineal champ Tyson Fury was going through a complete breakdown which would lead to him vacating his belts.
It took all of about fifteen seconds for Joseph Parker to take control of his scrap with Alex Leapai. He came out looking sharp, throwing those quick hands around and looking to hit in combinations. Parker trapped Leapai on the ropes later in that first round and copped him with a few mean hooks while his jab was a constant force from the opening bell.
It was supposed to be a clash with Eric Molina, Joseph Parker getting into it on his first Matchroom Boxing card with a scrap against a fella who has fought (and lost) to both Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder. Not the toughest opponent of his career but a respectable one, a solid win for the resume as he looks to build himself back into contention under his new promoters.