Did Frank and Dubios duck Parker?

The concern I have with Kabayel is the way he sticks his chin out. He is a viscious uppercut waiting to happen against a more refined, mobile opponent. I think Usyk, Fury, Dubois and Parker would be a huge test for him.

He is a Top 5 fighter hands down. But I think Zhang and Chisora are his two legit wins against quality opposition.

 

How sure? Did he **** on you and you're a testing stick and you went positive?

 

Its the kind of style and defense that works well until it suddenly doesn't.

 

We'll never know unless someone whistle blows because promoters and managers are basically all liars.
He could have been very sick and so they cancelled the fight.
He could have been a little under the weather but able to fight but it was too risky since Parker isn't a can.
He could have been not really sick but didn't prepare properly and they got worried.

I think it's probably a combo of two and three.

I remember the time Fury was a no show at the press conference for Wlad II and Hennessey/Frank covered for him and claimed his car had broken down on the way. In reality Fury was being an obese AWOL weirdo and probably threatening to kill himself at the dump while taking his bins there.

 

Of the big four he is the least tested.

 

Obviously not. There's a weird legion of Parker fanboys suddenly coming out the framework painting this "woe is me" narrative that Parker is being ducked, Parker is being denied a title shot etc.

He's already WBO interim champion, why all the complaining and moaning? He can wait his turn for Usyk like everyone else has, like Dubois did as WBA Regular champion in 2023, like Kabayel is doing now as WBC interim champion.

 

I feel refusal to fight short notice by itself should not constitute ducking. Bakole just showed us the consequences of unwisely taking a challenge.

 

No.

 

Yes. If it wasn't a duck, Dubois should fight Parker next.

But I think he doesn't want to risk losing the IBF belt, and neither does old Fish Eyes.

Parker should be ahead of Dubois for a Usyk fight now -
1) Parker has been interim WBO champion for a long time,
2) Usyk has already decisively beaten Dubois,
3) Usyk gifted the belt to Dubois, it wasn't earned.

 

I think part of the issue here is Usyk any fight can be gone and once he is Dubois can never rematch him.

 

I definitely don't think he ducked Parker at all.

But I'm not blind to the possibility that maybe they had the opportunity to secure the Usyk fight and decided to withdraw under a cloud of plausibility.

Or maybe it was a 50/50 call whether he fought or not.

But if Dubois has a run of fights which goes Usyk, Miller, Hrgovic, AJ, Usyk then he hasn't ducked a single fighter.

Ducking Parker is facing someone like Chisora in place of him, not facing someone like Usyk in place of him.

But if the poll was "do you believe Dubois was too ill to fight" it might well be a lot more one sided.

 

Maybe but on paper he shouldn't have took this fight

Same way Usyk shouldn't have fought Dubious when he was in line to fight Fury

These types of high risk fights historically have never happened in boxing, normally it comes in the way of a real upset but Dubious bellying Usyk or Parker KO'ing Dubious has a much higher probability than people seem to realize. Even AJ Dubious, It felt like they were lining up for Fury in the future and treated Dubious like they were ahead of him only for Dubios to outjab, outbox, outgun and outsex the bodybuilder.