Joseph Parker is taken into account a possible opponent for IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois to defend towards on February twenty second in Riyadh. Dubois could be too highly effective, younger, and rugged for the 32-year-old Parker, who has develop into a defensive fighter.
Anthony Joshua doesn’t look like curious about taking the rematch with Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) at the moment resulting from accidents he’s nonetheless therapeutic up from, and he wouldn’t be prepared in time.
The previous WBO champion Parker (35-3, 23 KOs) has put himself able to problem for the title by defeating Zhilei Zhang and Deontay Wilder in back-to-back fights.
Whereas many followers have gotten enthusiastic about these fights, Parker wasn’t that nice in both of them. It was extra of a case of his opponents being very previous and gunshy, not throwing. Zhang, 40, appeared horrible, hardly ever throwing something and gassing out after 5 rounds. As for Wilder, 39, he wasn’t throwing something and was simply shifting.
Parker’s greatest wins within the final two years had been Wilder and Zhang. These guys had been too previous to obviously perceive the place he’s at and whether or not he’s gotten higher since his Eleventh-round knockout loss to Joe Joyce on September twenty fourth, 2022.
I watched these three fights and didn’t see Parker bettering because the Joyce combat. The one change is that he’s fought fighters who haven’t thrown punches again at him resulting from their superior age.
When Zhang threw punches, he dropped Parker twice, and he was near being knocked out in spherical eight. If Zhang had continued throwing within the eighth, he would have knocked Parker out simply. When you put Dubois instead of Zhang that evening, Parker would have been knocked out. He wouldn’t have made it to spherical eight as a result of he’s too chinny and timid.
“Dubois will get confused by boxers, and Joseph Parker has plenty of methods to win,” stated Chris Algieri to Probox TV concerning the potential combat between IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois and Joseph Parker on February twenty second.
Algieri doesn’t point out that Dubois was robbed of a knockout towards Oleksandr Usyk final 12 months and will have gained that combat. However even if you wish to say that he deserved the loss, he’s nonetheless gotten so much higher in his latest fights.
“The man has plenty of versatility, and I don’t suppose Dubois has seen something close to that aside from Usyk, and also you noticed how that confirmed up. It was plenty of frustration, and it appeared to me like he stop,’” stated Algieri.
