I am not looking to criticise Joe too much as I obviously think he does have talent, but I just think that expectations and opinions need to be balanced somewhat because it's getting out of hand. He's a very good prospect, there is no doubt about that, but when you have Dean and Kevin constantly telling Stuff.co.nz that Parker would have beaten Fury and Klitschko, and the NZ Herald saying Joshua "ducked" Parker to fight Charles Martin, and the general public starts believing it, then it becomes dangerous.
They have built him up too highly in my opinion, let's say he fights Carlos Takam next up, that's a HUGE step up in class, HUGE, what happens if Joe pulls straight back from a jab, and takam follows up with a right hand that Parker walks straight into, then, in his inexperience Joe gets up, tries to slug his way out of trouble while hurt, and Takam puts him away
I'm telling you the casuals will turn on him ruthlessly, and it'll be his teams fault, not his.
We need to understand where Joe is at, and that when he steps up to world level, he's still very young and we have to be reasonable about what we expect from him. When he does get in with a Takam or better level fighter, to be quite honest I expect he will lose, but I think he'll come back from it with a new team, and become a better fighter. I see him losing, then relocating to the states or europe and hooking up with a better promoter and trainer and being built back up properly with fights against tough, top 20 guys.
Duco will throw him in too deep, too soon. They are already starting to look a bit desperate,with Joshua now getting the Martin fight and all the belts locked up, they will throw Joshua in a risky fight looking for $$$ and their greed will come back to bite them on the ass, just my prediction
They have built him up too highly in my opinion, let's say he fights Carlos Takam next up, that's a HUGE step up in class, HUGE, what happens if Joe pulls straight back from a jab, and takam follows up with a right hand that Parker walks straight into, then, in his inexperience Joe gets up, tries to slug his way out of trouble while hurt, and Takam puts him away
I'm telling you the casuals will turn on him ruthlessly, and it'll be his teams fault, not his.
We need to understand where Joe is at, and that when he steps up to world level, he's still very young and we have to be reasonable about what we expect from him. When he does get in with a Takam or better level fighter, to be quite honest I expect he will lose, but I think he'll come back from it with a new team, and become a better fighter. I see him losing, then relocating to the states or europe and hooking up with a better promoter and trainer and being built back up properly with fights against tough, top 20 guys.
Duco will throw him in too deep, too soon. They are already starting to look a bit desperate,with Joshua now getting the Martin fight and all the belts locked up, they will throw Joshua in a risky fight looking for $$$ and their greed will come back to bite them on the ass, just my prediction