Joseph ParkerVerified account @joeboxerparker Nov 17 .@anthonyfjoshua so what's happening? Fight a voluntary or pay me respectable 40% as fellow champion and unify? #NeverBeenDropped @EddieHearn @D_Higgins_Duco 441 replies 414 retweets 1,367 likes
There's no way that Parker fights AJ or Wilder without huge money offered. He knows he will lose, and possibly doesn't have the mentality to rebound from it.
What makes you think Parker doesn't have the mental side under control? He has a lot more brains than 99 per cent of the heavy weights out there. If he loses he isn't going to go on the **** and drugs for the next few months like many. He is a bright young guy whom has always said he doesn't want to be boxing when he is 30 and will get back on the horse and likely have another title fight within 18 months. Saying that I don't think Joshua can knock him out Parkers straight right hand will do the job
Takam wasn't a mandatory. He filled in for Pulev. And how you did the math with Parkers worth is showing that you're only going by his stats, and not his earning potential. More people will come to see him and pay more to see Joshua fight Parker. That money doesn't go to Joshua lmao. Big fights are not just based on past pay checks and crowd attendance. They also figure earning potential and what could be made. There are many factors that go into making unification fights and you didn't list any of them. Hearn can't low ball two champions because he doesn't think that they arent worth whatever they are worth in the U.K.
Before the Fury fight, Parker threatened to take the money that Hennessy had put in escrow, and not fight. This was apparently in response to a British ref being chosen for the fight. Considering the ref was swapped for another British ref, the only reasonable explanation for them going through with the fight is the fact that if they had walked away, the Furys would have sued them. Again, since negotiations started for the AJ fight, all their justifications for 40% point to the prospect of it being Parker's last fight. The guy is 25, making upwards of £2m a year and his promoter is talking about needing to secure the future of his extended family. He also came across as quite insecure when asking why Tyson Fury has talked **** about everyone and not him. I honestly don't think he has the confidence to bounce back from a loss.
He will loose to some prospect before he gets the money he thinks he deserves. He will earn peanuts in his voluntary and mandatory defenses compared to what he can get against Joshua. Everybody wants to unify but nobody wants to give up his position in these negotiations, another proof that talk is cheap.....
Lol, one of your better attempts at trolling Blizzy, keep it up, you've been half assing it as of late.
Funnily enough it's actually Parker's team are the ones being greedy here by asking for 40% when they don't generate 40% of the revenue. Hearn is actually being quite generous.
True when you generate 90% of the revenue and are willing to give an opponent more than the 10% they generate then you are not being greedy, you are being generous. And yes this fight would generate more than AJ would against a non title holder but that's why the pay is decided in percentages, both make more in proportion to how much more the fight generates.