Parker will stop Wardley between the 6th and 8th rounds.

I like this fight. Parker wants to stay busy and Wardley wants a step up. I think Parker takes it though. Wardley was getting schooled by Huni and Parker will do him the same way.

 

Wardley will have to land more than one punch here to beat Parker, he has a solid chin and has been in with the biggest punchers in the division. And Parker is a savvy operator these days, he has really smoothed out his approach and is a lot cagier, he will be hard to pin down, he isn't going to walk onto a shot like Huni.

Parker may try and end it earlier, but he also may just take the lower risk option of 12 rounds depending how it looks. He said he was trying to be more exciting to land more fights and all that, but even after his KO of Bakole it seems like Turki isn't interested so he may go back to being a 12 round fighter.

 

All heavyweights hit hard, but I agree in that Parker hasn't been showing off his power through out a lot of his career, instead being a 12 round focused fighter but he can bang when he wants to. And I definitely think he hits a lot harder than someone like Huni.

 

I can see Wardley lasting the distance at least, or even knocking Parker down - hes super tough and powerful even if he is a very average boxer.

Parker still outpoints Wardley for me though.

 

I saw in the Huni fight that Wardley freezes for a second after he eats a hard shot. If this happens against Parker I can see him getting stopped.

 

Parker by KO. Don't know what Wardley's handlers are thinking. Guess they want to cash him out after he got exposed last fight.

 

Parker on points

 

Parker does not hit harder than Wardley.

 

I do think people are getting carried away with Parker to some extent, but nobody had him beating Wilder before the fight. The reason he fought Bakole is that Dubois jumped ship at the last minute, so I think it's unfair to hold that over his head. I don't think this is the same Parker that struggled with Joyce; he's a totally different fighter stylistically. The Parker that lost to Joyce would've lost to Zhang.

Wardley is also not as good as you're implying, either. He had a 12-round bar fight with Frazer Clarke, who is barely British level and was being completely outclassed by Huni until Huni's glass mandible ruined his own great work. Huni is not a top-level fighter because he will get knocked out whenever anyone lands a half-decent shot on him. I don't think he beats anyone in the top 10, but skill-wise, he could definitely hold his own. If he had a chin, he would be very dangerous.