Joseph Parker-Bowie Tupou Aug 1

Parker takes him out inside 6

 

Nice fight for Parker. Tupou is a tough, experienced, journeyman fighter who has picked up a few minor wins of his own and this would be Parker's second fight in less than 2 months.

 

Yes.
Tupou is better than Fujimoto who was KO'd by a rugby player and went life and death vs Chauncey Welliver and former junior middleweight (twice).

 

Bo is a little better than Kyotaro but will still get blown out quickly and not do a thing for Parker's development.

Oh well, onward & upward..

 

parkers top class

 

Next best thing after Joshua in the crop of up and coming heavies. (but don't count out Rivas, he's a sleeper...)

 

id still have hughie fury above parker

im also looking forward to seeing what con sheehan can do

 

Polynesian heavies generally have low thresholds once you rise above the crushing of tomato cans and chinny gatekeepers (or underprepared contenders, ie Boytsov), with the exception of Tua (of whom most of the rest are just poorer carbon-copies) - who actually had a threshold of his own, even in his prime just shy of elite due to his one-dimensionality.

Tupou, Wolfgramm, Haumono, Leapai... all in the same mold, essentially.

 

Hughie Schmooey.

He's well below Joshua, Parker, and Rivas in terms of skill, pedigree & talent.

Maybe the 2nd best youngster emerging in the UK though. :good

 

actually a lot of good polynesian heavys coming through atm

Jai Opetaia and David Nyika are great prospects in the heavys

 

Do you project them going further than any of the names mentioned above, though? (incl. Tua, who for all his notoriety didn't ever quite "make it")