On promotions he's managing; Warren said all along it didn't affect him. Now Saudi are starting to go their own way with Ring promotions and the TKO partnership, the UK promoters will be back in their boxes soon.
Great fight for Wadley - slightly strange one for Parker - all risk little reward. Parker has found a bit of confidence and dog he was missing and he's on a good run but I think he might just have a bit to much experience and craft to weather the storm BUT Wardley can crack and he will be in the fight all the way.
Showed more dog against joyce than ever in career and still got flattened. ran away from two old men his biggest wins, then beat a two days' notice, overweight, two or three flights and no sleep Bakole.... what's he really done that's impressive Fabio Wardley is a nutcase and he will probably belt Parker
One reason why Parker is wanted to win by so many is his wins prop up the reputations of their favoured fighters, whereas Wardley hasn't left his mark on boxing yet. It's the same in every era, there's always a contingent who blindly want the "old guard" to win. If Parker wins, Joshua looks better because he took Parker's 0. Povetkin also looks better because he did better against all of his Parker mutual opponents (Takam, Joshua, Hughie, Whyte), even though Povetkin was 39+ against three of them. And because Joshua and Povetkin look better, Wlad looks better. Which means the K2 era looks better relative to this one, maybe previous eras relative to that etc. etc.
You could ask what's anyone done that's impressive at heavyweight really? Usyk beat a fat Fury twice (a guy that barely got split decision against Ngannou) and beat Dubois who was stopped by Joyce as well. Usyk couldn't even knock Joshua down. Joshua was destroyed by Ruiz and ran away for a points win in rematch, and Ruiz is a fat joke. The standards are low.
Dubois was up before giving up against Joyce with an apparent broken eye socket. Parker threw the kitchen sink at Joyce, threw more punches than any time in his career bar only one or two matches (against lower level opposition) and he still come out of it looking like he was hit by a bus and reversed over. Usyk done plenty impressive and Dubois had impressive performances against Hrgovic and Joshua. Kabayel has done what Parker can't do and knocked out Zhang and has been winning every time by KO. He has been more impressive than Paint Dry Parker
Cheapest tickets nearly £70. **** that for a laugh. I'll hope it struggles to sell and then pick up some freebies.
That says more about the quality of the judging than Daniel's performance. Joyce was using him for target practice and he had no answers.
Not really. Lots of people here had him up also. Dubois out landed Joyce 146 to 125 over the match. Boxing isn't scored that way but according to compubox the rounds were split 5/5 in punches landed. Power punches landed per round heavily in favour of Dubois, and that's my recollection of the match also. R1: Dubois 4 Joyce 0 R2: Dubois 11 Joyce 2 R3: Dubois 8 Joyce 3 R4: Dubois 10 Joyce 3 R5: Dubois 11 Joyce 1 R6: Dubois 8 Joyce 5 R7: Dubois 10 Joyce 4 R8: Dubois 13: Joyce 3 R9: Dubois 7 Joyce 6 R10: Dubois 0 Joyce 0 That's 82 - 27 Jabs were 98 - 64 in favour of Joyce, of course. Compubox isn't totally accurate but this is congruent with my recollection. And I wanted Joyce to win for what Dubois said about Joyce's lovely mother
Maybe I've underrated Dubois's efforts, from memory he started the stronger but Joyce had taken over by the mid-point and Dubois never had an answer to the jab, other than blocking it with his face.
I don’t remember it like that but his eye was certainly getting worse and becoming a point of focus. Joyce did start to target it. A great match between two big Brits. Big Joby Joyce was some man 6 foot 6 a foot taller than me