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It astounds me that people are assuming that being a potential back up, no doubt not the only -person contacted for... have people thinking that means that Takam would have done a full-spec camp preparing for the fight of his life on the off chance that a guy who has never pulled out of a fight before will pull out of the biggest fight of his life 2 weeks before hand?

By the same logic, Joshua also trained specifically for Takam.

 

Anything above 20% and Parker is considered by me to be a 'ducker' for not taking it.

Parker would not bring 20% of the fight income, maybe around 5% max.

 

Takam was scheduled to fight this weekend so he was ready to go when he got the call, it wasn't two weeks notice.

It was hearn that said they told him to be on standby, I haven't made it up.

 

Takam was the only back up.

He was meant to be fighting on Hearn's monaco card, so he was fully prepared for AJ.

 

Parker is a bum

no more than 50 cents

 

I didn't say that, none of us know what happened behind closed doors but it seems odd that if Joshua was signed to fight Pulev that Takam would be 100% committed to a fight with Joshua that had an outside chance of happening.

If he WAS fully prepared for Joshua, as well as whoever he was meant to fight in Monaco - then surely it goes the other way around and Joshua fully prepared for Takam... right? If now, how is it different?

 

Joshua was preparing for Pulev.

Takam was only going to be on Hearn's Monaco card 'if' he didn't actually get the AJ fight.

Takam's opponent on the Monaco bill was never confirmed, so he was in camp for AJ the whole time.

 

I agree with you but people keep posting he was on two weeks notice which is untrue.

 

An 80/20 split is a damned insult to Parker Whats AJ done beside
scrape by Granpa Wlad ? 60/40 is fair 65/35 min

 

70/30 get it done.

Another belt for the champ AJ and then Wilder has no where left to hide and we can say goodbye to ****** fanbois on youtube.

 

TBH 80-20 is a fair split atm..

Parker really needs to have some more fights in the UK and blast out a few names.. Smashing up Wilder bogie man Whyte would be a good start. Hopefully he fights Browne as if he wins that would be a good scalp too.

Until he get his profile up there I cant see how he could command any more..

Right now he is in the same place as Wilder, might have a belt but is pretty much unkown in the UK and that sloppy show he and Fury put on wouldn't have helped him at all..

 

70-30 Sounds about right.

 

Hearn's rooster is delivering golden eggs without the need to take risks trying to win more titles. He will keep Joshua fighting at home against mediocre opposition for a while yet provided the returns remain high. If things start to fall away a bit Hearn will start making genuine offers to Parker & Wilder.

 

Parker is a loss waiting to happen anyways. He can't miss out of the AJ fight and go get lit up by Povetkin for some rubles.

 

I'm not an AJ fan boy or hater - he has his limitations and people get annoyed by the hype but at the end of the day he's entertaining and the more people interested in boxing the better. Similarly, Parker seems like a good kid who comes to fight and the more contenders in the heavyweight division the better too.

However, I've no idea how people come to this outcome? Parker took a close (and deserved) decision against Takam and got nowhere near denting his chin. Squeaked a decision against Andy Ruiz and arguably lost against Hughie. Nobody in their right mind would consider any of those in the same bracket as Wlad, 41 or not.

Not only did AJ KO Wlad and get up from a heavy knock down, he won pretty much every round against Takam even if it was stopped early. With 2 weeks notice. And scored the knockdown.

I personally don't see a way Parker can get a decision let alone a KO.

And asides from the WBO belt (yes WBO), he brings nothing commercially.