Parker weighing in at 267 lbs

Parker is fatter than Joshua, but not as much fatter as he looks, if he shaved and got a good tan he would look quite a bit leaner.

 

Parker has no visible veins on his body and is carrying plenty of fat around the midsection and back. Don't get me wrong, he's a pretty solid 267 (much more solid than a guy like Fury), but he's not anywhere near as lean as AJ who looks ripped at 250+

 

Now you've got me thinking what Parker would look like if he lost fat down to ~250lbs. I don't think he'd ever look as ripped as Joshua, even if they had the same bodyfat %.

 

if he pulls it off, his stock goes through the roof. If he doesn’t, eh, he hadn’t even trained and took it on two days notice, and he’s already lost his 0 prior to this. And he gets a big purse.

win-win situation for Martin as long as he isn’t blasted out by Parker. If he hurts Parker, maybe knocks him down a time or two (entirely possible), then gasses and loses on points, it won’t even look bad for him.

 

That’s a myth.
No classic boxing coach teaches would endorse that. maybe a Ben Davidson/malik Scott etc would.
Strength may increase, not power.

 

You were saying?

 

Yes, and i still am.

Putting on weight doesn’t give you power.

knocking out a couch potato who hasn’t slept doesn’t prove a thing.

if you really believe putting on weight gives you power, go explain it to boxers who want to increase their power and earn loadsa money from it. (Every fighter wants more power, you could be rich)

 

Properly gained and leveraged weight 100% matters. If weight didn't matter, there wouldn't be weight classes. Power comes from speed + mass.
Parker looks like he put on healthy weight and it showed.

 

Extra weight will absolutely add weight to someone's punches. I don't understand why people think it wouldn't.

But also there is different kinds of power, there is Wilder turn your lights off power and Foreman thudding break you down power.

 

I don't get what you are trying to say? Parker would have found it difficult if he fought some hypothetical different fighter tonight instead of the fighter he fought?

What does that mean? You could say that about any fight/fighter? Kabayel would have struggled more if he was in with a fighter with a better gas tank for example.

 

Ah I get what you are saying. I think that this was the best weight Parker could come in for this fight under the circumstances.

I think Parker and team felt that since they had already built the weight for Zhang and then got the Dubois fight that they didn't have time to cut him down as much as they would have liked in camp without it affecting his ability to perform in camp and on fight night, instead they prioritised his performance based on the various metrics they have.

With more time and if they were preparing for someone like Usyk, I think they would spend more effort on getting his weight down.

 

I feel good haha!

 

But he wasn't fighting Usyk....