Joseph Parker being underestimated?

Like him but no. Too much size for him to overcome. Top 5 heavyweight.

 

I don't know, seeing these guys face off at the press conference, it seems we have yet another heavyweight clash with a significant size differential. Parker is large, but Joshua is huge. I will pick the huge guy.

 

Parker has these tall upright guys for breakfast.

Always has blasted them due to the SPEED difference.

 

He's being underrated by some. He's clearly going to be Joshua's 2nd toughest opponent to date at the very least he's as good as Takam who took Joshua 10 rounds, so anyone expecting Joshua to just blast him out like he's Molina or Martin are in for a shock.

Parker's hand speed will give Joshua some problems, he's too stationary and at some point Parker will likely land some decent combinations. I expect this to be Joshua's toughest fight apart from Wlad. But Joshua will win, Parker has the tools to trouble Joshua but not the skills to beat him.

 

No matter how many times you post speed in capitals it’s not going to make Parker any faster.

AJ is EXPLOSIVE and much quicker.

 

The "much quicker" has not yet been shown in any fight I've seen yet

 

Have you seen how slow, lumbered and labouring Parker has been in his fights!

 

It's all relative

 

He's definitely being underrated, people are acting like he's going to be KO'ed inside 3 rounds and he's some journeyman.

Hes got all the attributes to take AJ the distance/potentially KO him.

 

Very well said, Bane

 

What if Joshua is looking past Parker?

 

it's not IF , he does and it's a little disrespectful ... It would be fun to see Parker pulling up the upset. It will be his 2nd best opponent so far, so I don't know why everyone talks about Wilder - Joshua when nothing is sure right now.

 

I agree with the consensus. Parker has a much better chance than you'd think, and while you have to favour AJ because of the size advantage, I don't think we have seen the best Parker yet. Wlad came within an asshair of stopping Joshua, and that's 41 year old Wlad. If Parker can light Joshua up early, get his attention some ... we cold be in for a very interesting fight.

 

In fact let's put it like this: I think Parker should be favoured over every other HW around except Povetkin and AJ.

 

Parker is certainly been underrated here by a lot, however I think this will be a fairly routine win for Joshua. My issue with Parker is that he's far too easy to hit. Takam was hitting him at will in there, but Parker showed a decent chin. I don't think he was ever in any trouble of going down in that fight, think that was more fatigue, but he showed great recovery powers... but that's Takam, who I don't rate as a puncher despite the decent KO rate (he's not really knocked out anyone of note).

This is Joshua's fight to lose though. If I was his trainer I'd be telling him to establish that jab early and light him up with a few hard, as once Parker feels that power it will change his mindset and gameplan. After that let Parker plod forward, as he looks poor being the aggressor and doesn't know how to cut the ring off. Joshua knows how to fight off the back foot and is a decent counter puncher, eventually Parker will walk onto something big.