He's a cherry pickers, he's a cherry picker... is there anyone in the sport today who isn't??

Everything is relative dickhead. Joshua is still young in his career and has been brought along accordingly. It's unfare to compare him to the vets in his division because he hasn't fought that as them. If what I'm saying is untrue, prove me wrong by showing a fighter with a better record than Joshua that has fought as long as him.

 

Walked away from a guaranteed showdown with Joshua, to take on Andy Ruiz.
Took the safer fight.

 

Safer? Most probably as Ruiz whose never fought Joshua does seem like the safer option based off what we've seen from them. However the main reason being, was more strategic. Parker was to get stuff all for fighting Joshua (think it was 70/30 split to AJ) but when the WBO belt became available to Joseph, Team Parker knew they had to pick up that belt, the title is a bargaining chip. Now when they meet Joshua and considering both still have belts it becomes a?...that's right, unification belt resulting in Parker getting more money.

For those that didn't know this, it can be seen as a duck. Parker has called out Joshua earlier and vice versa, both men are keen to go, both men know that neither is ducking the other. Joshua is probably the most called out champion of the three. Parkers fighting the next best available and has been stepping up nicely to build a nice resume, I don't believe that's ducking but each to their own.

 

They chose money over glory... so to speak.
I know all about why they went after the vacant belt, and it makes sense. His team did the right thing. Unfortunately, quite the number of fans were waiting for a fight to materialize between the two new young guns.
Now we will not be seeing those two in the ring for a while as both the IBF(Pulev) and WBA(Ortiz) have announced their mandatory challengers.

 

Yep, most of them do. What more greater motivator than money, the thing that gets some people outta bed in the weekday mornings to catch the 7am train. We are not so different with our take on cash and so I can understand Joshua, being the champ and all, not willing to make a 65/35 split or something along those lines and no champ does 50/50 (I think) unless of course hes that desperate to make it happen. Parker didnt want to risk a loss for a small amount. Like you said, they both choose the money and rightfully so.

 

One would not need to look very far. Lomachenko is clearly the man you're looking for. Wlad Klitschko, I agree, is another.

 

I think it's just that for some reason boxing has the biggest fan boy nuthuggers than any other sport. They are so far on some fighters dicks that they think they have to hate on any other fighter in or around their weight class that might possible fight them or people think are better than them