Who will you be rooting for: Joseph Parker or Zhilei Zhang?

Same question I asked someone else, but applies here too...

When boxing fans are all complaining about guys wasting their primes and not stepping up until way too late - shouldn't we be wanting to see guys step up younger and use their careers to the full?

Or to put it another way... Isn't the reason Zhang hasn't given us many big fights the fact that he didn't step up until he was already at an age when most guys retire?

 

Dont worry about Zhang stamina soo much. Parker will be one who must work much harder in this fight.
Zhilei can just put little presure on him and wait for occasion. He is the biggest man here so if Parker want land smth he must first be in Zhang reach.
Zhang is heavy- that's true. But he is not silly. He would not come to soo important fight without good prepereation.

 

At nearly 41, he's running out of time to get his money made. I'm guessing he'd take this fight even if he wasn't 100% but I'm not saying that's the case. I wasn't impressed with him at the weigh in though.

 

But he already got WBO mandatory quarantee if I good remeber after Joyce win

 

At his age, that's no guarantee at all, really, though - by the time there's a champ free to fight him, he'd probably be retired already... It's not as if either Usyk or Fury are likely to bother fighting on afterwards either - so it'd probably end up as a fairly lowly paid fight for a vacant belt.

In that context, it makes sense to make the good fights while it's not too late.

 

Look how long Whyte was messed around as mandatory. Zhang doesn't have any time to spare.

 

Big Bang

 

Do you still think zang deserves a title shot?