This would be a great fight, I really hope it happens. I hope Chris can reverse the decline but he looked totally shot, so I'd make Spilka a slight favorite. Spilka is on his way to having a fantastic resume against formerly top contenders just as they get shot. McCline, Adamek, and if this goes through, Arreola would all have destroyed Spilka if they had fought him about 12-18 months before they actually did.
Parker is now a big solid dude who has serious power and while this probably still to be proven to a degree but being Samoan and the fact no one has shown anything near dropping him it can be assumed he probably doesn't have a fragile mandible, probably two of his biggest assets would have been all but eliminated in amateurs versus where and what he is in the pros. What Parker is to amateur boxing and what he is to professional boxing is not really going to be the same thing.
Interview with Laron Michell:http://www.*****.net/2015/08/18/news/laron-mitchell-aims-for-9-0-on-carlson-v-melo-undercard
Interview with Johan Duhuapas:http://www.*****.net/2015/08/18/news/duhaupas-edges-closer-to-wilder-test-fights-off-ko-predictions
Wilder has a press conference in Birmingham, Ala., tomorrow to annouce the fight. My understanding is that the agreement was already reached a few weeks ago but the venue was still up in the air, but both have opened training camps.
Hoping Duhaupas can pull this off.... But he's not got the best style here, he needs to be aggressive. None of that laying on the ropes, and moving backwards countering/potshoting that he usually does. If he comes out guns blazing he'll have more of a chance than doing that.