Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua vs. Joseph Dennis Parker - THE *OFFICIAL* POLL

Hey, give him a break, he's just following his t-shirt's instructions. Besides, do you have any idea how many bomb takeaway curry shops there are in Watford? How's a man to resist?

 

This is an excellent breakdown from @Mendoza, which is actually the OP from his own separate thread entitled "What Parker must do to win on March 31st", but since this is the main repository for all things J vs. P it seemed worth sharing here as well:

That's as succinctly (yet still pretty thoroughly) as the salient points regarding a Parker game plan can be explained.

 

Avowed faith in Parker is a diminished numerator, hovering at just above 16%, down from a touchstone 18-and-change maintained for most of the first 24 hours the poll was up.

104-20 (72) in favor of Joshua, now.

 

The only result that is yet to have its cherry popped is the draw - one I happen to consider highly plausible.

 

Great minds. Guess I'd better take one for the proverbial team.

In all seriousness though, I'm not just voting this way to be edgy - I actually do think we're going to get a distance fight with lots of hotly contested & fiercely debated rounds.

 

Eh, not sure about that, Parker doesn't have the pop of even a winded 41 year old Dr. Steel-hammer (which isn't a knock on Parker, almost nobody has that kinda pop, let alone what a prime Wlad had) and Joshua was still eating the odd flush shot in rounds 9/10/11 and while pretty gassed himself didn't succumb past the one knockdown he suffered in the 6th. I fail to see how Parker, even if he gets more touches in than Wlad did in the late going, is going to finish a guy that Wlad couldn't.