Hearn: I've been contacted by Wilder and Parker's camp about a Bellew fight

Oh I think he does. Especially Washington but each to their own. Guys like Ruiz and Takam are more accomplished than Washington. Duhaupa is ok but lost badly to Povetkin. Carlos was having a close even fight with Povetkin before Carlos got dropped late in their fight. I do acknowledge Duhaupa was a late replacement in his fight with Povetkin.

Joe has been doing it tough. We can use lowly ranked Washington again as an example and compare him to who Joe is fighting which is his mandatory challenger Hughie Fury. Joe actually deserves a break cos his opposition levels just go up and up!

 

Is it just me?
But
When did bellew gas in that fight.?

Like wtf are you talking about? #confuse #ydksab

 

As soon as Haye injured himself. Bellew went wild with power punches and gassed himself within 30 seconds. Same in the following round. It wasn't until the 8th that Bellew calmed down a little and started boxing for rounds instead of going for the KO.

 

This ^^^. Sky commentators were pointing out Bellew gassing and breathing hard too.

 

Charr got KO'ed in the 7th round after being destroyed by Povetkin for most of the fight.

He's sort of known for an iron chin, although to be fair I reckon it's compromised after taking too much damage against Vitali and Povetkin. Still, Briedis got him spectacularly with one big uppercut that turned Charr's lights off, which always speaks well for power.

 

Bellew gets stopped against either one.

 

Bellew needs to get out of HW.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if Parker out boxed and/or KO'd Wilder. Parker is a big guy and has decent speed, power, skills etc. Wilder isn't the most skilled himself and hasn't got the sturdiest of chins. Wilder does have explosive power though so I wouldn't be surprised if he KO'd Parker either. Good match up

 

Washington has fought some good names like you mentioned, Id even add Ray Austin and Sherman Williams to Washingtons credit.

Ruiz had a 29 and 0 record before he fought Parker but thats not why Id rate him over Washington, its the boxing ability. Washington doesnt box properly, you can tell he wouldnt have done well in the amateurs (if he does indeed have an amateur background). If Ruiz and Washington fought, ideally it'd make for a good fight stylistically but I honestly think Ruiz would take by knockout.

 

This is a good discussion. I'll bite, if we exclude Tyson Fury (out of boxing) and Povetkin (doping) the top 10 isn't that great.

On Boxrec, I think Parker has a very good shot at KO'ing:
#6 Charles Martin (he's not really #6, but whatever lol! How is he above Parker on boxrec???!? Anyway I expect he'll quit as soon as he gets into trouble against Parker)
#8 Christian Hammer (is not that good, doesn't have that good a chin, and beating Price doesn't make you top 10 quality)
#9 Dominic Breazeale (yes, he's a tough guy, but Ugonoh probably would have got the KO were it not for his own chin problems)
Maybe #10 Erkan Teper as well, he's a doper and looked terrible last fight.

I realize that none of those are true top 10 HW quality fighters now of course, so I'm essentially agreeing with you.

I just think that KOs are always a possibility in the HW division, even if it's not the likely outcome. Just an honest question, if a top 20 HW with decent power gets a clean, flush hit with his full weight behind it on a top HW with a good chin, does the guy go down or even out? I'd tend to say yes, especially if that HW doesn't see the punch coming.

 

Wilder and Parker would be interesting, wilder has the power to KO Parker with 1 punch but hasn got great skill compared to Parker who has better hand speed and footwork to open wilders defence and has good power but not on wilder level, if it becomes a shootout wilder wins due to having more power but if Parker uses his hand speed and footwork to keep out of wilders range then I could see Parker winning by points as wilder defence isnt very good hasn't got grear head movement so would be susceptible to constant jabs from Parker. If Parker boxes smart I can see a Parker points win but if it becomes a shootout then wilder by KO