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

We're down the rabbit hole now folks. I don't care who Bellew fights as long as we're pulled back in the real boxing world. Y'know with stuff like rankings and mandatories. It's not perfect, but it's a damn sight better than the WWE route.

Haye wasn't even ranked by the WBC looking at their February ratings. Bellew shouldn't be in a position to challenge the champion.

 

Yes lol, those are really pathetic rankings! Can't even see how a computer can come up with such pathetic stuff.

Agree that KOs certainly less likely as the level of opposition goes up, I'm just saying that they are still possible.

 

Ahh that explains Washingtons poor boxing. Well as Wilder said, Washington was just a tune up fight. We all predicted him to get knocked out and we were correct.

 

No one in their right minds thinks bellew is king,and all brits arent making him out to be great.but if your looking at someone to take aim at,look no further than deontay fckin wilder.
Why the fck is bellew on his radar.well we all know why but he needs to fck right off and fight a worthy challenger

 

To talk to Hearns lying ass about that ****.

 

I'd like him to leave Barry too, time for some new input IMHO.

 

For the sake of avoiding subjectivity, I'll look at the Boxrec top 10 heavies as a "common ground". Firstly, ANYONE can be knocked out with the right timed punch if someone has a certain level of power... Parker has sufficient power to get anyone if the planets align correctly HOWEVER I'm not saying that means he would knock anyone out, obviously. This kind of thing is why you can never say what is going to happen - and why boxing is so fun to watch

I suspect Deontay Wilder (who has been unhappy about hits by lesser and far less hard hitting guys) and Christian Hammer are a couple of guys from the boxrec top 10 who Parker has a reasonable chance of hurting. I'd say he's more likely to hurt Hammer than he was Takam or Ruiz, I'd have said the same BEFORE he fought those guys - I didn't expect either of those to end by Parker KO.

Sorry, I wasn't suggesting you did - it's just an attitude that is quite prevalent.

I actually think thing the opposite in terms of Wilder, I think Parker could upset Wilder (though Wilder's windmill is always a factor which can change anything) and I suspect Team Parker think the same. AJ and Wlad I agree more, as with Tyson Fury.

 

Right, so what does it tell you that a shot, old Haye who has barely fought a live body in 5 years was winning pretty easily?

 

We honestly can't easily know, Wilder certainly hasn't fought anyone as dangerous as Parker in terms of KO risk - IMHO. I wouldn't call Parker the easy favourite, but I suspect he has the potential to finish Wilder. I view Takam and Ruiz as a lot tougher nuts to crack than Wilder, both with much better chins AND defense and both of them had points they looked a bit vulnerable - Takam was definitely spinning a bit once or twice in their fight but is a tough mofo.

I think the worst of Kiwi casual fandom and ditto for the UK are coming out of the woodwork and making both sides look like numpties in terms of this. There are a LOT of people here who think Parker is going to beat the crap out of Fury, and similarly a lot of poms think Parker is no risk for Fury and he's going to box his ears off. I basically don't take either crowd seriously.

I honestly am not 100% of what to expect in that fight. Haven't seen too much to suggest Fury can be knocked out, but also haven't seen much to suggest he can hurt Parker - so it'd be easy to assume that it's more likely to go to scorecards. Imho if he goes in to fight Parker using the template set by Takam and Ruiz, Hughie is going to get KO'd. I am certain Parker won't fight him the way he fought those guys, I think he'll be no way near as negative against a guy like Fury and Fury won't have experienced anything like that which will be an interesting test of his fortitude.

I guess if I split up the likely ways I feel the way the fight could end (as in, give an idea of how I feel their styles etc could mesh) I end up with something like this:

Hughie by decision: 38%
Parker by KO: 30%
Parker by decision: 20%
Hughie by KO: 12%

 

****en ******ed lmao...