Joseph Parker vs Fabio Wardley winner to face Oleksandr Usyk next

Unless Uysk vacates, or retires, or gets an exemption.

It's not as if these alphabet belt organizations follow their own rules. They change their minds and rules for that matter, with the weather.

I hope Parker gets his shot just to watch Usyk school him.

 

Usyk is praying for a Wardley victory. A low skilled British opponent like Wardley is tailor made for him instead of a durable faster super heavyweight like Parker and god is on Usyks side here

Wardley wins by KO.

 

Wardley takes this, by KO. Parker's had a washed up Wilder, struggled against Zhang and beaten an unprepared Bakole.

Usyk is streets ahead of both Wardley and Parker. Either is an easy night for him.

 

Good, the world is healing, people are back to saying that Parker is overrated and going to get smashed by Wardley. I was a bit worried for a sec there with most people saying Parker was going to win easily.

But wasn't this already the case before the fight was announced? Parker was already the mandated challenger for Usyk that Usyk had to fight next?

Just seems like a pointless thing to say to sell the fight and justify Usyk's injury holiday.

 

IBF gets **** on constantly for being ridiculously strict with their mandatories. Have we forgotten how Dubois ended up with the IBF belt?

And WBO will most likely strip Usyk, if Parker is not next. This is the final exemption.

I have no defense for the WBA or WBC. I hate them, and everyone who works for them. They should all rot in a prison somewhere.

 

WBO should have already stripped Usyk, and had Parker-Wardley for the full WBO

 

They should have really made Parker V Kabayel if they were going to make such an eliminator.

 

Huni toyed with Wardley until Wardley knocked him out by sheer luck, I don't even want to imagine how Usyk would crush him...

 

Wardley struggled to KO Huni and drew with Clarke. Parker has beaten bigger punchers before and he'll use his experience to do a demolition job on Wardley.

Parker KO 7.

 

He ain't fighting Usyk, and if he did he'd get sparked in 4.

 

I don't think Kabayel was keen. By the sounds of it Parker's team has asked everyone in the top 10 at least for a fight and Wardley was the only one who was keen to actually get it done.

 

My first reaction upon reading the title of this thread: Well, I should hope so.

Usyk facing the winner of Parker-Wardley is the only proper next move for him -- unless he's retiring. A trilogy vs. Fury might bring in more $$ but, please ... enough already.

 

Zhang and Wilder both ranked in the top 5 when Parker beat them, but suddenly, when Parker wins, they're "washed up' - Wilder was a 1/6 favourite going into that fight. Changing the narrative after the event is disingenous. What's so good about Wardley? He was getting picked apart by Huni for nine rounds and went life and death with Clarke.