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

All great points, and I love how unbiased you are in your evaluation of Parker's chances. I think the Fury fight will tell us a lot about his ceiling. Hughie isn't the world's hardest puncher, but he's a good boxer with solid fundamentals, and if Parker can negate his jab and knock him out I think the writing's on the wall as far as Deontay's chances against him.

 

I'm ****ing hyped up.

 

Wilder ain't gonna fight Parker anyway,he's happy with his WBC Mickey Mouse belt

 

If Wilder the wife beating, child terrorising, cherrypicking, belt hostage holding douchebag picks Bellew, I will very actively hate on Wilder.

 

Good discussion. My take:
- Yes, Parker is more traditional than Szpilka. But his chin is a lot better too.
- Wilder has been floored by Nichols and Sconier, so surely Parker can KO him if he lands flush. I thin Parker's power is legit, not massive like Wilder or Joshua, but still decent.
- Fair points. But if he beats Hughie it'll mean he's improved inside, he can't beat Hughie from outside off the jab.

 

Wilder beats Bellew up then Hearnz send over AJ to save British face and AJ fuks him till he loves him.

 

Bellow is like a bird's nest on the ground for Parker and Wilder. Easy pickings.

 

Go make yourself some easy money then, the bets there.

 

What risk? The only risk is of them injuring themselves, as Haye did.

 

- Wilder's chin is often slated here, I agree it's not actually that bad. But it can be hurt by mid-level punchers, as proven many times. However, the threat of Wilder's big right hand is one of the factors that protects it, his opponents so far have all been reluctant to press when they hit Wilder because they are scared of the big RH counter. I guess another way at looking at it is that Parker will be Wilder's best opponent so far (also vice versa of course), so he must have some chance based on that alone.
- I think Hughie Fury will win the decision if he doesn't get KO'ed or knocked down, the size/reach difference + Hughie is a pretty good boxer means that Parker cannot win on the outside IMO. The only way perhaps is if Hughie just runs away the whole fight and is scared to engage.

 

Agreed, but I still think Bellew is comparatively low-risk in the HW division though. A bad Haye was winning prior to the injury, and Bellew had to hit Haye sooo many times, basically flush, to get the fight stopped.