Boxing
Return from the edge: Can Joseph Parker overthrow Daniel Dubois for heavyweight?
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3 months agoon

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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Maxi Hughes says that he gives Shakur Stevenson an advantage in the fight with William Zedaa on July 12 at the Louis Armstrong stadium in Queens, Up-to-date York. However, Hughes is not sure if the lightweight champion of WBC Stevenson (23-0, 11 KO) can stop Zeda (33–0, 27 KO) with the assist of feeble hands and a lack of impact power.
Non -capable pace of Zepeda
Hughes learned how arduous it was to leisurely down Zepeda when a Mexican artist stopped him in the fourth round last year. He says that William is just approaching, throwing blows and making arrows to land on his volume.
Hughes thinks Zepeda will do against Shakur and thinks that he can be successful if Newark, from Up-to-date Jersey feeble glass hands They are not sturdy enough to withstand pressure.
If Shakur loses, Turks Alalshikh may need to consider removing him from future Riyadh season cards, because there would be no sense of artificial support for his career. Promoter Eddie Hearn could save money without bothering with the extension of Stevenson’s contract from the stable in the match.
Hearn is fighting how he intends to change Shakur in “Global Star” And we fans think it’s crazy. They got stuck, watching Stevenson’s fights on ESPN and know what he meant.
“Immediately after this fight I thought:” I think he defeated Shakur. ” And I still give Shakur because of his skills and how Tevin Farmer did well against Zepeda – said Maxi Hughes Boxing fans Asked who wins the fight Shakur Stevenson vs. William Zepeda on July 12 at the Louis Armstrong stadium at Queens, Up-to-date York.
Zepeda overwhelmed Maxi Hughes with volume, forcing to stop the fourth round in the fight in March 2024 in Las Vegas. He tried to pack Zeda, but the Mexican went through his arrows and buried him with blows in the third and fourth rounds. Zepeda will try to do the same Shakur, which is even less puncher than Maxi. The power he had will not be effective because of his feeble hands.
“One is, he [Zepeda] He does not leisurely down, and he does not get tired and is good inside – said Hughes about William Zepeda.
Shakura’s shortbread
“It will be fascinating to check if Shakur, We know he has shortbread handsor can he stop him. Because one thing was that he would still be ahead, and if Shakur does not hurt him, Zepeda would go: “I will take a few of them to go inside and land.”
There is no doubt that Zepeda will go through Shakura’s arrows to get closer to the landing. In this way Zepeda fought with Tevin Farmer and defeated him in both fights. He was approaching the farmer’s breaking in their rematch on March 29 at Cancun, Mexico. Tevin turned away from his back, looking like he was in grave trouble in the fifth and sixth round of Zepeda’s attack.
Shakur does not hit almost as tough as a farmer and is less willing to absorb shots. I am trying make a break for it When the Mexican Tom Puncher Zepeda begins to put it in. It can be a fight on the track, just like the fans saw in the fight of Stevenson with Edwin de los Santos in 2023. When Puncher Tomu massacre the warrior, the last thing they do is desperate retreat. They basically gave up the fight and try to save themselves, escaping. This is the case in war and boxing.
“So it’s so fascinating there. I can try to get places in Up-to-date York. I wouldn’t mind watching it,” said Hughes about the fight of Stevenson-Zepeda.
“” Delicate Hands “Shakur Stevenson can cost him vs. Zepeda, says Hughes.
Last updated 22/22/2025
Boxing
Ball: Dubois can be foiled with body shots in the rematch
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3 hours agoon
May 22, 2025
Nick Ball says Daniel Dubois can “Potentially remove” Oleksandr Usyk, if he hit his body in their rematch on July 19 at a Wembley Stadium in London.
Ball states that he felt a shot on the right, which Dubois (22-2, 21 KO) dropped Usyk (23-0, 14 KO) in the fifth round of the first fight on August 26, 2023, should not be ruled by a judge.
Ball felt that he landed on his “stomach”, which would cause Dubois to win with a knockout in the fifth round. Usyk remained on canvas for three minutes and forty -five seconds before returning.
Nick Ball on Dubois’s Body Shot strategy
Ball of the featherweight master believes that Usyk’s weakness is in the body and believes that Dubois can exploit it if it is aimed at this area. Nick believes that the result of the Usyk VS Dubois 2 rematch can be determined by Daniel’s striking body.
Dubois was later dropped by Usyk in the ninth round in something that looked like a departure from the juvenile Daniel. The way he bowed to the fight made the fans forget that he potentially robbed victory with a missed connection in the fifth round.
Dubois will have to show greater strength in the rematch, because if he gives up when it happens, he will never have the opportunity to focus on the weakness of Usyk in his body.
“Yes, 100%. Daniel is on a roll, and in the first he hurt him,” said Nick Ball Seconds Asked if Daniel Dubois could defeat Oleksandr Usyk in a rematch. “When he catches him in the second, he can potentially pull him out.”
Usyk will make it complex for dubois landing on his body, constantly moving, stabbing him with stabs and joining when he enters the inside.
“I thought everything was all right,” said Ball asked if he thinks that the shot with which Dubois fell from Usyk in the fifth round of the first fight was low. “Yes, he hit him with a blow. It was in the body, and he fell and stopped and was hurt. Yes, he was his weakness. So exploit him against him to pull him out.”
Last updated 22/22/2025

Bill Haney issued his list of 10-battle hits for his son, Devin Haney to fight, and fans consider her too ambitious. Most of the fighters on the list would be too good for Haney from shocks (32-0, 15 KO) in its current form, especially Jaron Ennis, Gervonta Davis and Teofimo Lopez.
Bill perceives Teofimo as Golden standard Because who wants Devin to fight next, but he is completely out of reach. The fight between Lopez and IBF and the WBA Jaron “Boots” HEADISA champion is in summer. Teo does not change his fighting plans for a lot of money with shoes to face Haney in what would probably be a modest task.
Haney’s fears
Fans believe that these warriors will destroy Devin and ended what Ryan Garcia started last year. Bill seems to be trying to lure his great name for his fighting son, Haney, to fight after his fatal performance against Jose Ramirez on May 2.
Promoter Oscar de la Hoya gave Haney bad news on Wednesday, telling the media, “No, this is not a direction in which we want to go. Zero at all.” De La Hoya Bogst Bill Marzenie Devina will get a lucrative rematch with Ryan, whom he waited a year ago for a fight after the Up-to-date York sports commission suspended him for supporting a filthy one a year ago.
Bill will have to revise his list and a more realistic view on who he can potentially get Haney to fight. The extensive majority of fighters he chose for his list of 10-borsters would not be interested in fighting Haney. They are either busy or they would not like to fight him because there is no mountain.
Devin Haney versus everyone
1.Teofiimo Lopez
2. Shakur Stevenson
3. Gevo “tank” Davis
4. Jaron “Boots” Ennis
5. Brian Norman Jr.
6. Barrios
7. Keyshawn Davis
8.Rolando “Rollie” Romero
9. KONCONOR BENN
10. Ryan Garcia
– Bill Haney (@Billhaney77) May 21, 2025
Turki: Haney’s last hope?
Bill must hope that Turks Alalshikh comes to Devin’s rescue and offers one of these fighters a lot of money to fight Dev. I don’t know if it will do it after Haney’s first performance against Ramirez on the Times Square card in Up-to-date York on May 2.
If you are Turki, you would like to go in a different direction, not exploit Devin, because he fights too similar to Shakur Stevenson. Turki is already fighting his card on July 12 in Up-to-date York. There is no need for another Shakur warrior to have a lifeless performance.
Turki needs fighters who play, create positive fans’ reactions and make them want to buy future events at PPV. When it comes to saving boxing, Turki must avoid turning lifeless fighters on his cards and focus more on those that cause emotions. Haney, Shakur and Richardson Hitchins do not have fun.
Last updated 22/22/2025

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