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Return from the edge: Can Joseph Parker overthrow Daniel Dubois for heavyweight?

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Joseph Parker faced a long, tedious road back to the top, but the 33-year-old is in a better place than ever, when he tries to become a two-time heavyweight champion.

Since the winner of the WBO title, almost ten years ago with the victory of points on Andym Ruiz Jr. At a teenage age of 24, Parker was on a rollercoaster traveling, who saw him moved from unification against Anthony Joshua to, at some point, at some point, the fight to save his career. On Saturday he will face Daniel Dubois for the title of IBF in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

In 2018, the defeat of Joshua and Dillian Whyte – a competition that still incensed with the Parker camp after apparent headbut – saw how he rides to order.

The fight in 2021 with the Junior FA compatriot in Auckland was settled as a clash or contract. Parker won, but with an unconvincing performance, which was far from the best, about which he and everyone knew he could reach. After the consequence, he parted with coach Kevin Barry.

Although he insists that he never lost his faith, he admits that in recent years he has asked himself tough questions about himself with a lot of soul searching.

“To tell the truth, I always believed that I could do well in boxing again, but when you have a few failures and do not go towards you, you start asking questions,” Parker told reporters before fighting Dubois.

“I have never had any doubts and I never wanted to give up, but I knew that I had to make changes and I think that I had made the change that I had now was very, very nice.”

This change was the coach of Andy Lee.

Parker, by a close friend and someone whom he calls his brother, Tyson Fury, associated with Lee. Relationships from Fury and Lee changed Parker’s career. He entered, moving to Great Britain and even living with Lee at one stage.

“I think it was a great beginning from Andy and at the beginning it was great, incurring the basics,” explains Parker. “As a warrior, when you were in the game for a while and you start learning recent things, sometimes you leave from scratch. I think that [also] It was essential to get this friendship [with Andy]. “

The Irish and Modern Zealanders are in many respects strikingly similar. Affable and effortless, both people quickly indicate how much they hit their weight much above on the global sports scene.

As for the fight, Lee and Parker are one of the best who come from their countries. No wonder that they made such a sturdy connection. “You can only learn from yourself when you are very close and although we are friends outside the ring and we like to spend time and relax … When the time has come to train and when it is time to start a job, it is very different, it is very different , – said Parker.

Lee did not avoid some home truths about Parker’s performances after two fights with Derek Chisora, claiming that his recent fee tended to turn off during rounds. However, the bond was heavily created.

The progress was then detained in his works with a mistaken defeat with Joe Joyce.

Parker and his team were stunned after the fight, in the first and only knockout of his career. He was poorly beaten and back back on the heavyweight ladder. While Parker said little about it – not wanting to justify himself – the sources said ESPN that the Modern Zelander was so ailing on the night of the fight that in retrospect the fight should probably be delayed. Regardless of this, the damage was caused.

Wins on Jacek Massey and Faiga Opelo returned to the tracks in 2023. Fury manager, Spencer Brown, then organized Parker Fight in Saudi Arabia.

Although it was a much lower amount than Parker’s ponderous caliber, he would usually like to be as busy as possible to take rankings again. It also gave him a chance to impress Turka Alalshikh, He deals with the most powerful person in the ESPN combat sport.

This is what he did with Simon Kean’s effortless knockout.

Then it was great: Deontay Wilder.

Recorded by many Parker, he produced a clinical boxing display, annuling Wilder’s threats and showing extensive experience. Wilder’s victory was a breakthrough moment and he came when almost no one believed that he could do it.

Lee passionately defended Parker at a press conference after a fight, slamming the disrespect that was shown.

“We had to endure many things. Joshua-Wilder; The contract is over, “said Lee. “We have a miniature wardrobe, we have a miniature hotel room. He is at the top of the bill, he is the main event, former world champion. It’s about Wilder-Joshua.

“This man had to endure everything with it. He didn’t fall his head, he just got stuck again. “

The victory over Zhilei Zhang, where he perfectly made the Lee game plan and survived the two charming, confirmed his position as a perilous ponderous weight.

Finally, after he was in the ponderous desert, he has his reward.

There is an argument that Parker is overlooked again this week. Dubois is rightly a favorite and although he insisted that he did not overlook Parker, the way he jumped on the ring after winning Oleksandra Usyk nad Tyson Fury and called Ukrainian suggests that he has already had one eye for the future.

But after he went through, being weaker is exactly what Parker would prefer.

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Caleb Plant says Edgar Berlanga can get it whenever he wants

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Caleb Plant was present on Saturday evening for the match of Mikael Mayer versus Sandy Ryan in Fontainebleau Las Vegas. The match he said he liked and agreed with the unanimous decision granted to Mayer. Plant is preparing for the next set of the match, which is to be scheduled for May 31. He has not fought since September last year, when he defeated the invincible Trevor McCumby.

When asked about his upcoming fight, Plant replied, saying: “We are working on it now, I hope he would announce next week and be up to date.” When he pressed who potential opponents could be, he smiled and said: “Be on a regular basis.” Many thought that the fight against Edgar Berlang would be inevitable, because there were many verbal ones between them.

The latest and noteworthy will be on March 15, when Berlanga called the plant after defeating Jonathan Gonzalez -ortuz. He led a tiny singing “F*ck Plant”. However, it seems that Berlanga is changing now and instead he realizes the match against Jaime Munguia. He said that the match between him and Mungia will be a great fight. Mexico versus Puerto Rico. Munguia is to fight Canelo Alvarez versus William Scull in a rematch against Bruno Surace 3 May.

When asked about the potential fight between him and Berlang in the near future, Plant said: “Whenever he wants, whenever he wants, I’m not tough to find. Yes, I’m not tough to find.” Due to the bad blood between them, there is a great interest of fans in the potential fight between the plant and Berlanga. Both have observations of fans after the main matches with Canelo. These are the names of households and, if they are sold correctly, they can generate a vast fight.

Plant gained the respect of the Mexican fan base after his brave efforts against Canelo and Benavidez. He has the spirit of the warrior they love, and it was perceptible in his humorous fight with McCumba when they comforted him on his way to his technical victory. The fight against the McCumbby plant took place during the Mexican independence weekend at Undercard of Canelo-Berlanga.

Plant has a fan -friendly style, and Berlanga has seventeen knockouts in the first round. They would produce a full fight with history, which dates back to May 4, 2024, when bad blood began. Both were present for Canelo-Munguia weighing and had a quarrel in which the plant called Berlanga to fight.

Berlanga said that in September he would face Canelo and then he can face the plant. The plant still pressed him on the fight, and Berlanga said that he would knock him out. Since then, they go to each other in social media, in interviews and wherever they have a chance. Their bad blood will not be solved until they meet in a square circle. It will last until that day and return.

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Can Crawford’s “trick” be overcome by Canelo? The theory of switching arum attitude questioned by Crawford’s last performance

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Image: Bradley to Crawford: Forget Canelo, Take the Boots Ennis Challenge

Promoter Bob Arum says that Crawford’s ability to change the hit of will “befuddle” Canelo Alvarez in September and predicts that his former warrior will defeat the Mexican star.

Posture switch strategy

Arum believes that the change of attitudes is that all cups must defeat Alvarez (62-2-2, 39 KO). If Crawford wins, changing all night, he could be fooled. This is not David Avaneyan or Jeff Horn, which he is going on.

This may require something more than the changing position of Terenca to defeat Canelo, because these things did not work well for the native Nebrask in his last fight with Israil Madrimov. He brightened, switching from Southpaw to the Orthodox. Madrimov repeatedly nailed him with his hands from both positions and looked as if he could not miss this right.

“I like Crawford in this fight. I think he is a better talent, a better athlete, a better boxer and I think he will win this fight,” said promoter Bob Arum to Sean ZittelAnticipating that Terenka Crawford will defeat the WBA, WBC and WBO Super Middle Wwweight Canelo Alvarez, if they fight on September 13.

Arum can be sentimental to Crawford, because he was his child from the beginning of his career, fighting the highest rank by 2021, so that the arum could talk to a warrior who spent 13 years in his company, it seems strange. Crawford was a family with the highest rank and he would probably be with them if he did not go to the Free Agent’s route after the victory over Shawn Porter in 2021. Interestingly, Crawford fought only three times since he left Arum, defeating David Avanes, Errola Spence and Israil Madrimov.

He should have been fighting much more than three times in four years of leaving the highest rank, but this reflects the lack of ambition. This inactivity will turn around and bite Crawford’s ass against Canelo, because you cannot be a diminutive warrior part -time at the age of 38 and expect that you will defeat the warrior of this caliber.

Arum forecast

“After the announcement I felt that Crawford would win. I told him:” It’s a great fight for you. You’ll win this fight. ” I do not think that he would take this kind of weight, “said Arum, when he was asked if he was an additional weight that puts off Terenca, slowing him against Alvarez.

Arum may not have recently followed Crawford, but it looks like it is packed for good feeding of 20 pounds and hit weights. He is still five months to continue the fight before fighting Alvarez in September, and until then it will probably be fine. He no longer looks like a slim, agile warrior, whom he was two years ago, when he took his best career with Errol Spence on July 29, 2023.

“In addition, Crawford has a occasional ability to be indifferent and switching from Southpaw to the Orthodox as the fight goes on. It will be Canelo. Like most fighters, he was not in this kind of opponent. I think that it was that that made it uncomplicated to fight Spence.

Canelo fought many fighters who can change positions in 20 years in which he fought as a professional. This will require much more than Terenka to defeat Canelo with his trick, such as changing attitudes. It worked on Errola Spence, because he lost his game so much from this car disaster in 2019 and it looked like he was not physically or mentally present when he fought Crawford in 2023. Spence operated with 25% capacity.

“A fighter when he trains, he generally trains Southpaw or Orthodox in sparring,” said Arum. “Now, if you fight a guy who goes smoothly with Southpaw to the Orthodox and is as effective as you train for it? It’s tough. You don’t get sparring partners who can do both. They are not around.

“Crawford, because he is a unique type of warrior that others did not see other warriors, and the ability that he must change, the fighters are not used to it. They don’t train to it,” said Arum, who asked who would win in the fight between Crawford and the main Floyd Mayweather Jr. “I think Crawford is a very, very special talent.

“It has nothing to do with his ability as a warrior. Perhaps his ability as a dispute, I can say. But as a warrior he is a special better guy,” said Arum.

Madrimov concerns

Crawford will have to significantly raise his game from the last performance against Israil Madrimov on August 3 last year to beat Canelo, because this fight was essentially a draw. He was aimed at a very good warrior who overtook him and went outside in the first nine rounds before he fell apart. Against Canelo Crawford will face a greater blow that will make him pay if he tries to fight aggressively.

Based on some things that Bud and his trainer, Brian “Bomac” McIntyre, spoke in interviews, focus on Canelo’s boxing, remaining out of reach, and tied him when he is close enough to land their great shots of power.

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Does Crawford wear water for Canelo? Critics say that “respect” the excuse is hidden by the tilting of the powerful Benavidez alvarez

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Image: Head Shake and Confusion: Alalshikh Blocks WBC Belt, Contradicts Undisputed Push for Canelo vs. Crawford

Terenka Crawford sounded like apologeta Canelo Alvarez, turning on why the superstar decided not to fight David Benavidez in favor of the clash with him.

“Respect” angle

Crawford says “Alvarez’s Mexican monster” Niew Research “to such an extent that he will not give him a” payment “. However, Terenka appears as if it were simply wearing water In the case of Canelo, using the angle of “respect” as a smoke veil as a cover for him, which throws Benavidez and almost some embarrassing defeat.

All Benavidez has done this is a request for a fight and says that he thinks that he can beat Canelo. This is the same thing that Crawford did before he was chosen as an opponent of Alvarez. He made the same comments, but he was still chosen. In this way, you know that Canelo repealed Benvidez. It’s not about respect.

It’s about Canelo’s competition, avoiding competition. With Crawford he is an venerable, little guy who showed that he cannot move to 154 in his last fight in August last year. In other words, Crawford is sheltered. But with Benvidez it has the size, youth, power and combination striking to knock out Canelo and humiliate him in front of the entire civilized world.

Respect or fear?

“I think that Benavidez did not respect him to such an extent that he does not like him. In terms of business, it’s like” I won’t give you this check. I don’t give you this ticket. ” That’s why he said: “You want to pay.” – said Terenki Crawford to Pound 4 pounds of Kamaru and Henry YouTube channel about why Canelo Alvarez decided not to fight David Benavidez.

“Belt does not matter when you are in his situation. When you reach a certain peak in your career, you grow your seat belts.” I will give you these belts. ” Regardless, they will watch me, “said Crawford, justifying Canelo Gucking Benavidez.

Of course, Canelo does not care about the belts when it comes to Benavidez, because he will probably leave the WBC belt if the sanctioning authority tried to force him to take this fight when he was his obligatory contender.

Last updated 31.03.2025

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