By: Sean Crose

The featherlight champion of WBC Shakur Stevenson received the widely unknown Josh Padley on Saturday in Saudi Arabia. Stevenson was to fight Floyd Schofield before Schofield had to give up the fight because of his illness. 15-0 Padley then struggled outside the miniature notification. The question, of course, was whether Padley could give 22-0 Stevenson a real fight.

Southpaw Stevenson dominated the first with his excellent set of skills. Stevenson began to land in the second. Although Padley certainly did not turn out to be amateur, the defending master was able to launch some angular combinations in the third. Being defensive by nature Shakur was not one of them. Despite this, the fourth, it seemed that Stevenson was working on winning in space.

The fifth was a tardy, silent romance. However, Stevenson worked well on the body at the end. Then he shot Padley’s head in front of the bell. Padley, at his own discretion, fired with bad intentions. Until six, Stevenson looked like he was working on ending the fight. However, he did not hurt his man, which could disappoint some fans. Still, Stevenson showed extraordinary skills.

Stevenson’s hand seemed to be hurt in seventh place. Although he looked keen in eighth place, it seemed that Stevenson’s hand would prevent the early end of the fight. It wasn’t like that.

In the ninth place, when it seemed that the fight would run a distance, Padley was dropped with a shot. He got up, but the second shot from the body put him away again. Padley got up for the second time, but the fight was almost finished. Indeed, Stevenson put down his man for the third time before the end of the round. Padley’s corner, seeing enough, threw a towel, giving Stevenson his early victory.

Despite the rapid flattening of the hazardous pretender Martin Bakole, Joseph Parker can still miss the fight for the title of champion.

Bakole entered only two days of notifications of a plot in the fight for ponderous titles and came to Saudi Arabia from the Democratic Republic of Congo after the disappearance of Friday weighing.

Parker (36-3, 23 KO) was to challenge Daniel Dubois for the title of World IBF, but instead he blew up the bacols (21-2, 16 KO) in two rounds. Bakole could have been a overdue replacement and was too ponderous, but it was still the impressive performance of Parker.

It is certainly arduous to predict what the next six or seven months looks like, but the withdrawal of Dubois has changed all plans for promoters, managers and Saudi payers.

Instead of re -facing Parker, after withdrawing from the defense of the world title compared to the Recent Zealander with a viral infection during the fight week, IBF Dubois champion will probably face Oleksandr Usyk in the unquestionable fight for the world championship title.

For Parker, his best option seems to be a rematch with former champion Anthony Joshua – but it depends on Parker’s friend, Tyson Fury, and not a return to Joshu this summer.

“I want to fight for the world championship title and become the world champion again,” said Parker later. “I will fight with everyone and everyone.”

When Joshua returns in the summer, he and the rest of the box hopes that it would be against his long -time rival Fury, who announced his pension after the defeat of Utyk. The former WBC World Heavyweight champion will receive an offer this week to face Joshua, probably at the Wembley stadium, and Fury will not decide for a long time whether he is really finished with this sport.

Promoters have tried to match Fury and Joshua for the last five years, and this will be the last attempt to realize the fight.

But if the Fury remains retired, another Joshua fight can be against someone who trains at the same gym as the Fury: Parker.

Parker from Auckland in Recent Zealand constantly rebuilt his career after losing in round 11 with Joe Joyce in September 2022. The 33-year-old registered six consecutive wins, including winning in Deontay Wilder and most points win over Zhilei Zhang in March last year. While Joshua, Fury and Wilder saw their performances fall in the standards, Parker is in the best form of his life and better than in his first rule as a master, as he showed in the absolute shipping of Bakole.

Fighting Joshua, even if there is no world title on the line, will have a huge charm for Parker. When he faced Joshua under the roof at the Principality stadium at Cardiff in Wales, he was in the best state. That night he lost the WBO belt from Joshua, but became the first person to take Joshua to points as a professional.

Like the speed and movement of Parker, they denied Joshua’s openings in 2018, so once again he will want to refuse Joshui a chance to unload his blows.

Parker has previously refused Joshua Ko and he will be sure he did it again. Together with Dubois, another warrior who could share the ring from Usyk, who was in Riyadh on Saturday, is Agit Kabayel, who recovered from Terrunia in round 5 to stop Zhilei Zhang with the body of a shot in round 6 for Fringe WBC Tineim Tineim heavyweight title.

While Kayabel does not look like a stern threat to Uyka, because he lacks shock, he can still be a man who will face world 1 in his last fight at the end of 2025. Kabayel (26-0.18 KO), 32, with German, he was under pressure at an early stage of a 41-year-old Chinese warrior who is based in Recent Jersey, but his work rate began Blow Zhang (27-3-1, 22 KO).

Zhang dropped such as Wilder, Parker and Joyce, so there was no shame in Kabayel coming from a compact left hook. Then he quickly recovered and gathered a quick response to stop the tiring Zhang with a combination of the body.