Joseph Parker is taken into account a possible opponent for IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois to defend in opposition to on February twenty second in Riyadh. Dubois may be too highly effective, younger, and rugged for the 32-year-old Parker, who has turn into a defensive fighter.
Anthony Joshua doesn’t look like interested by taking the rematch with Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs) right now as a consequence of 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 It was extra of a case of his opponents being very outdated and gunshy, not throwing. Zhang, 40, regarded horrible, not often 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 have been Wilder and Zhang. These guys have been too outdated to obviously perceive the place he’s at and whether or not he’s gotten higher since his Eleventh-round knockout loss to Joe Joyce on September twenty fourth,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 enhancing because the Joyce combat. The one change is that he’s fought fighters who haven’t thrown punches again at him as a consequence of 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. In the event you put Dubois instead of Zhang that night time, 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 a whole lot 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 in opposition to Oleksandr Usyk final 12 months and may have gained that combat. However even if you wish to say that he deserved the loss, he’s nonetheless gotten quite a bit higher in his latest fights.
“The man has a whole lot of versatility, and I don’t assume Dubois has seen something close to that aside from Usyk, and also you noticed how that confirmed up. It was a whole lot of frustration, and it regarded to me like he give up,’” stated Algieri.
