What is Joseph Parker’s career best performance against a world level opponent?

Zhang Ruiz Bakole Chisora Wilder. Don't get to just pick and choose out what you don't like just because it wasn't a peak prime vs prime fight with no mistakes made. Those are the fighters, and men, you should judge based on their bad AND good days.

People who think only prime fights count are a discredit to the sport. They're elite athletes, their entire job is to be better than their man, on their worst day, when their opponent is at their best. An L is an L....

 

They really should stick him in with AJ again and see if he bites down on his gumshield this time and comes to fight instead of feeling some power and jib jabbing around to survive against a chinny bodybuilding bum.

 

Some wins are more impressive than others, based on their current state, of course. Saying only 2 of his big wins "count" because excuses, and doing that for every single fighter alive, isn't completely insane to you? That's the nature of sport.

 

Yes. It's significantly worse

 

How can a guy who has beaten three top 10 guys not have an impressive career? Compared to ATG fighters, it's not, but Fury's career isn't impressive either, minus the Klitschko insomnia curer; Wilder has a thinner resume than Parker. If we analyze any of the current crop closely nobody really looks good aside from Usyk.

 

Wilder. Very few backed Parker to outbox him (ironically Parker is the first fighter to outbox Wilder).

Parker has also only ever been stopped once unlike AJ and Dubios. You think Dubios would have ducked Parker if he thought he wouldn't lose?

The sad fact is that Parker's opponents are suddenly no good once he's beaten them. Yet AJ gets praised for scraping by a 41 year old Wlad who hadn't fought in two years, or folk praise Dubios for being the best heavyweight despite his embarrassing stoppages via jab.

OP must be getting paid by Fwank

 

Wilder. It is doubtful that Parker ever looks like that again. While that wasn't a title fight thats the fight that got people ranking Parker the 4th best guy of the duck era.

The Zhang and Bakole fights were not impressive wins. Zhang only lost because hes a statue and Bakole was fighting him on short notice. Not that Parker would have otherwise lost but the win did nothing for me.

 

Yet both fights people still thought Parker would lose.

Bakole was the "boogyman" and Parker had as much notice as Bakole did, not his fault Bakole wasn't going to the gym.

Zhang was somehow shot when Parker beats him, but Kabayel deserves a shot after beating an even older Zhang? Just doesn't make sense to me.

 

I hate to say it but old Wlad is better than old Wilder by a long shot, also who said that. Parker and Kabayel fought the same Zhang and Kabayel stopped him

 

Wilder was only deemed to be "old" after Parker beat him, and notably still far younger than Wlad.

 

Wilders only good win is an old Ortiz, was already 38 by the time Parker got him, had power based on speed and explosivness which has clearly left him and he got brutally beaten and knocked out by Fury.

Parkers win over Zhang has to be far better than Wilder. Zhang literally sent Wilder to the shadow realm and blew Joyce away twice. Do you honestly think Parker will still be a top 10 heavyweight by 38 ? There's no way

 

Thats great, Parker won hes a champion. Zhang might have gifted Parker his belt that doesn't mean we have to pretend we're amazed by his performance or elevate him above other champions.

Kabayel would beat Usyk in my opinon. Kabayel and Parker were regional champs at the same time in the mid 2010s and Parker got his shot and Kabayel had to wait nearly a decade. The idea of Parker being ahead of Kabayel in any queue after Kabayel had to wait an extra decade to be granted entry to the world level is absurd. Parkers got 3 Ls in that decade and almost lost to Zhang. Kabayels undefeated. Kabayel should be interim champ A.

Kabayel beat Zhang 1 year after Parker. Kabayel clearly beat Zhang. Parker was knocked down twice. Zhang has no one to blame but himself for losing a fight where he had 2 KDs and I'm not disputing the outcome but Parker shouldn't be elevated above Kabayel because of that.

 

Klitschko was 41 and inactive for 17 months, Povetkin was 39, Ruiz had already knocked AJ out, something he didn't do against Parker, infact, didn't come close to, Whyte is garbage anyway and blatantly cheated against Parker, so it's not as good as AJ fans make it out to be when you include context into it.