PARKER vs WARDLEY - Do You Expect a BeatDown??

Eventually Wardley will drop Parker and hurt him very badly, but unlike Zhang, he isn't running on fumes from the 2nd round on. So he'll have more than enough in his tank to finish him off in brutal fashion. I really like Parker, but people really are starting to delude themselves. Wilder is decrepit, Zhang isn't hard to outbox and Bakole hopped off the couch and jumped into the ring out of shape and jetlagged. Parker isn't a pressure fighter like Huni, he's a backfoot counter puncher. Who'll give Wardley plenty of chances to catch him clean with his relatively quick hands. Parker isn't a new fighter, he's the same guy that struggled with Joyce and Chisora, It's simply a case of Wilder and Zhang's styles playing right into his hands. Speaking of Huni, he'd probably dominate Parker from bell to bell as well, and actually win. By no means am I saying this to overrate Wardley, I think Wardley is as average as average gets, but he has solid power, which he bails himself out with, kind of like Wilder. I think Parker is slightly improved from the Joyce match, but still fundamentally has most of the flaws he had then. Zhang has power, but as Forrest and Hrgovic shows, isn't that hard to outbox. Wilder, if you can't outbox him until he catches you, then you should hang em up. Most didn't think Wilder was as degraded as he was, and would eventually catch Parker. But clearly Wilder's power is also waning the older he gets, along with his confidence. So sure, I fully expect Parker to outbox Wardley for the vast majority of the match, until he eventually gets tagged.

 

He's not exclusively one, but that's hardly an exaggeration. He's versatile, but against guys like Tabiti and yes, against Wardley, he brought the pressure. Only they froze up and hung out along the ropes, so all he had to do was stand there and beat them down.

 

Did you notice the part where I said that Wardley is as average as average gets? And that I had no intention to overrate Fabio? Then I said he had solid power. Nowhere did I say mythical. Parker got brutally knocked the **** out by Joyce who does not have mythical power either. Dropped by Chisora, who does not have mythical power and couldn't even KO Gerald Washington. Then he got dropped by two glancing blows from Zhang. Parker's chin is far from granite anymore, quite frankly I'm not sure how solid ever was. It wasn't like AJ was landing flush on him all that much, now was he? I'm merely saying, Fabio has solid power, he carries it late, his hands are faster than Wilder's, far faster than Joyce, and Chisora. He'll land aplenty, and flush. Will Parker be able to stand up to it for 12 rounds? I'm not sure.