11-17-2015, 12:04 AM
Stu Duncan's responses to some of the questions, from checkhookboxing thread...
">>Some good questions - a couple I can shed light on now - but I will send to Joe & Kev regardless to get their take on it.
**When do you plan to fight in the US or Europe?
>>Joe has fought twice in the USA already & in Germany on the Klitschko vs Leapai undercard.
There is no immediate plans to fight in either again at this point in time
**I'd like to know what say Parker makes in his fight choices? Its a question I've asked fighters before, because we as fans often hear fighters say I want this or that fight, then say its up to their management.
>>I will put this 'Q' to Joe but I can tell you to date he has never asked & leaves it up to his team to make these decisions.
**Have you considered using a traditional title like the Commonwealth belt to get known, ambitious opponents as challengers? If you get Joe in an eliminator I'm sure Joshua would just drop the belt anyway, then it really opens up fights against some of the British domestic scene as well as potential fights from Canada/Africa and gets a bit more name recognition out there
>>We made numerous efforts to challenge Lucas for the title to no avail. I agree the Commonwealth is a great title to secure and gets recognition with the WBC. We have made other inroads to get recognition with the WBC including the OPBF & Eurasia at this stage. The issue now is not Anthony Joshua as we know that fight will be made at some stage but we would rather it be for an eliminator or World Title - this was a decision made by his team collectively. My other concern is this - Joe has the PABA / Oceania / OPBF / Eurasia / WBO Oriental titles. Summarizing - thats 2 x WBC belts / 2 x WBA belts and one with the WBO. So we now have to service these titles. So at present we can be dictated to by 5 organizations as to who we fight. Honestly at this stage Joe is rated with all 3 and we have been lobying the IBF for consideration - we dont need to have one more org dictating who we fight as it will complicate things. Joe has his next 2 lined up - one a tall and a lefty in Samoa. Were targeting an undefeated European in April who is tall as we are targeting a rated fighter for lets just say a big fight mid year .. Martz and this tall for April are perfect for a lead upto the big fight mid year.
**Any chance of an opponent like Chris Arreola next year
>>Chris has been offered 3 times and his team have no interest at all - they have their own agenda (a common response we receive - despite good money offers) .. we agree a fight with Chris would make for a good tv fight
**Who would you like to fight the most in any of the top 5 alphabets?
**What's the next step for Izu?
**Can you ask Joseph to say a little on how much sparring Klitschko opened his eyes?
**For KB - Tarver has tested positive again. Are you worried about opponents juicing the higher you go?
>>All of these questions will go to Kevin & Joe for their responses. I will wait another couple of days to see if there are any more.
Cheers .. Stu "
">>Some good questions - a couple I can shed light on now - but I will send to Joe & Kev regardless to get their take on it.
**When do you plan to fight in the US or Europe?
>>Joe has fought twice in the USA already & in Germany on the Klitschko vs Leapai undercard.
There is no immediate plans to fight in either again at this point in time
**I'd like to know what say Parker makes in his fight choices? Its a question I've asked fighters before, because we as fans often hear fighters say I want this or that fight, then say its up to their management.
>>I will put this 'Q' to Joe but I can tell you to date he has never asked & leaves it up to his team to make these decisions.
**Have you considered using a traditional title like the Commonwealth belt to get known, ambitious opponents as challengers? If you get Joe in an eliminator I'm sure Joshua would just drop the belt anyway, then it really opens up fights against some of the British domestic scene as well as potential fights from Canada/Africa and gets a bit more name recognition out there
>>We made numerous efforts to challenge Lucas for the title to no avail. I agree the Commonwealth is a great title to secure and gets recognition with the WBC. We have made other inroads to get recognition with the WBC including the OPBF & Eurasia at this stage. The issue now is not Anthony Joshua as we know that fight will be made at some stage but we would rather it be for an eliminator or World Title - this was a decision made by his team collectively. My other concern is this - Joe has the PABA / Oceania / OPBF / Eurasia / WBO Oriental titles. Summarizing - thats 2 x WBC belts / 2 x WBA belts and one with the WBO. So we now have to service these titles. So at present we can be dictated to by 5 organizations as to who we fight. Honestly at this stage Joe is rated with all 3 and we have been lobying the IBF for consideration - we dont need to have one more org dictating who we fight as it will complicate things. Joe has his next 2 lined up - one a tall and a lefty in Samoa. Were targeting an undefeated European in April who is tall as we are targeting a rated fighter for lets just say a big fight mid year .. Martz and this tall for April are perfect for a lead upto the big fight mid year.
**Any chance of an opponent like Chris Arreola next year
>>Chris has been offered 3 times and his team have no interest at all - they have their own agenda (a common response we receive - despite good money offers) .. we agree a fight with Chris would make for a good tv fight
**Who would you like to fight the most in any of the top 5 alphabets?
**What's the next step for Izu?
**Can you ask Joseph to say a little on how much sparring Klitschko opened his eyes?
**For KB - Tarver has tested positive again. Are you worried about opponents juicing the higher you go?
>>All of these questions will go to Kevin & Joe for their responses. I will wait another couple of days to see if there are any more.
Cheers .. Stu "