Anthony Oluwafemi Joshua vs. Joseph Dennis Parker - THE *OFFICIAL* POLL

parker by ko

 

AJ on points UD

 

I think Joshua edges Parker on points.

 

Been saying AJ by KO all along and ive just changed my mind. Joshua on points. After Parker tries to take full control from the very 1st bell Joshua will wrestle control from him and his reach advantage and the jab is what will be the biggest thing, Parker will try and try to get round that jab and have some success but not enough just moments of promise here and there while AJ picks off the rounds, Parker is gunna get wobbled and maybe dropped but he is guna work hard on not getting tagged so the Joshua big shots may struggle to land.

 

AJ stoppage .. I think it’ll be ref stopping the fight rather than Parker getting knocked out cold

 

AJ by stoppage inside 6 rounds

 

An Early to Mid Rounds British stoppage is more likely, if Parker doesn't find a way to Keep Joshua of him early on, then he will get jumped and the Ref might step in if he is not out on his own...

Anthony Joshua wins by KO inside Eight rounds or he gets stopped himself...

 

AJ gets a close UD

 

I think Joshua is going to gas and Parker isn’t going to let him off the hook. Parker stoppage 11th

 

Joshua by mid/late stoppage. Parker is hopefully a live dog in this, and this is not the outcome I want by any stretch but if I have a gun to my head and going to have to pick something then that's going to be it.

Parker has shown flashes of the potential needed to match or beat AJ throughout his career, but hasn't pulled together all of the bits he needs in a single fight and realistically - when stepping up like this we shouldn't be hoping for them all to come together for the first time, so much as seeing him settling into them all coming together and refining it.

I think he has the potential to really turn this into more of a fight than most seem to be expecting but the reality is that I view Joshua as more disciplined, having the better physical attributes (aside from speed) and having really worked harder on his game and those combined with the fact that Joshua is a unified champion already - Parker essentially has to "take" the belts, meaning he can't just maybe edge close rounds to take a points win... he has to really forcibly take them.

I think for Parker to win by KO he will have to do it by accumulation, and AJ is just such a capable and powerful counterpuncher that it seems that Joe will have to either be very careful about combination throwing (which defeats the purpose of his vaunted speed advantage) or risk being clipped.

For Parker to win this I think he needs to wear Joshua down and go for a late-round KO, which is not something we've ever seen him do before so makes doing it against something like AJ seem like a huge ask, while AJ has done it against Wladimir Klitschko of all people. For Parker to work towards that means being in the ring with a guy who landing a clean punch can derail otherwise good progress, and I just haven't seen enough to suggest Joe can get into the late rounds without something like that getting through and hurting him.

 

I'm guessing Parker's chin is an unknown?

 

A Joshua UD is a risky bet. In the UK it just takes a single flurry of punches against a tired opponent for it to be stopped. Look at the Klitschko fight. The bout was stopped during a flurry where nothing
really landed at all. Klitscko was dead tired and was on his way to be stopped sure. But it doesn't seem like Joshua needs to land anything with authority before a ref calls the fight off. Same with Takam.

 

AJ KO round 8