By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury is betting that Joseph Parker will do a canvas job on IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua when the two of them face each other. Let me rephrase this. I mean, IF Joshua and Parker fight each other next. Right now, Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn is negotiating hard and not willing to give WBO heavyweight champion Parker (25-0, 18 KOs) the 65-35 cut of the revenue that he wants for him to fight Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) in early 2018.
Unless Hearn or Parker gives in, we might not be seeing Joshua-Parker next year. That could be a good thing for Joshua, because he’s been looking something awful lately.
Fury absolutely doesn’t want Joshua to fight WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, because he thinks he’ll get knocked out by the Bronze Bomber. Fury doesn’t want Wilder to wreck his own fight with Joshua next year. Fury figures that if Wilder smashes Joshua to pieces, there won’t be any interest from the boxing public in him coming in later to take a fight with him.
”Can Parker beat him? Yes, he can,” said Fury to IFL TV. ”Parker is as tough as a brick and as game as a pebble and is young and ambitious with no expectations on him. Nobody expects Parker to beat Joshua – it’s all about the weightlifter.”
I totally agree with Fury. Parker can not only beat Joshua, but he can beat him in style by knocking him clean out. With Parker’s punching power, he can knockout anybody in the heavyweight division if he lands cleanly. Joshua has 2 strikes against him. One, he can’t take a good punch without getting wobbled. Two, Joshua has horrible stamina, which appears to be getting worse with each fight. Joshua isn’t aging well at all in terms of his ability. They say fine wine gets better as it ages. I wish I could say the same about Joshua. He’s approaching 30, and he’s fighting like someone nearing his 40s. Joshua’s stamina is nowhere, and he’s starting to show cracks in his façade.
Hearn was blabbering recently about Joshua having a 10-year reign as a world champion. The way Joshua looks now, he’ll be lucky if he gets through his next fight without getting knocked to oblivion. I’m just saying. The man is going downhill fast as far as I can tell. The heavyweight that is looking better with each fight is Deontay. He looks like he’s been drinking from Ponce de Leon’s fabled Fountain of Youth, and he’s more like a guy that is hitting his early 20s rather than someone 32-years-old. That’s bad news for Joshua if he tangles with Deontay right now. But I have a feeling that Hearn is going to swerve the Wilder fight by steering Joshua to perceived safer pastures.
“This isn’t Muhammad Ali, this is a man built-up believing in his own hype and a man who is going to come crashing down to earth very, very soon,” said Fury about Joshua. ”Parker can beat Joshua, he can knock him out. Joshua’s chin is dodgy. We know this for a fact. We’ve seen Klitschko drag him off the canvas, wobble him, shake him, rock him, the young Daniel (Dubois),” said Fury.
Oh my, Fury is really letting Joshua have it, isn’t he? If Joshua gets knocked out by Parker, you can’t say Fury didn’t warn him ahead of time.