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(01-01-2018, 04:46 PM)South Africa Man Wrote: [ -> ]Ya easy win here for Joshua. Parker has been very unimpressive in recent fights and hasn't progressed under Barry. Joshua is limited too but he will have too much for Parker. You can only imagine if prime Frans Botha was around today; he would rule the heavyweight division.

I couldn't agree more mate, Frans Botha is the greatest heavyweight of all time.

Prime Frans would toy with every heavyweight in the game right now. Too much speed, too much power, too much evereverything tbh

Is that prime Botha in the video? Did he get hit with Tyson's right, or Tyson's aura?

Is it only me that reads posts by South Africa Man in a Sth African accent?

(01-01-2018, 08:47 PM)diehard Wrote: [ -> ]Is that prime Botha in the video?  Did he get hit with Tyson's right, or Tyson's aura?

It's Prime Botha vs Tyson. In the video it looks like Tyson drops Botha with a right hand. 

What actually happened is that Botha misplaced an uppercut and knocked himself down. 

Eddie Hearn to David Higgins: Stay calm, keep your head and we'll get this fight done

Duco Boxing boss David Higgins has made huge ground in a unification fight deal for Joseph Parker and now needs to get the promotion across the line.

Eddie Hearn has warned Joseph Parker's promoter David Higgins that "now the hard work really beings" as they look to finalise the world heavyweight unification fight.

A contract has been produced for the fight that will see Parker put his WBO belt on the line alongside Joshua's WBA and IBF belts.

Higgins is working through the fine print and is hopeful of heading to London soon to seal the deal.

Promoting huge events is nothing new to Anthony Joshua's boss Eddie Hearn who is hopeful of finalising a unification fight deal with New Zealand's Joseph Parker.

Higgins has had Team Parker lead an aggressive campaign to successfully flush out Hearn and Joshua. Now they have agreed on the money split that will give Parker about a third of the profit for the massive fight – believed to be worth around $12m to the south Aucklander – there are a lot of logistics to work through, including a venue and date with Cardiff's 78,000 seater Principality Stadium in late March the favoured option.

Hearn has enjoyed the banter that comes with working with Higgins but suggested it was time to get serious when he spoke with Stuff about getting the fight across the line.

"I've enjoyed working with him but we have a long way to go," Hearn told Stuff.

"It could be a very different answer (in a few days time) because now the hard work really begins. This is where everybody stays calm, keeps their head, applies common sense and just acts in the best interest of the fighters and the best boxers.

"It has been a long process but it is the perfect fight for everybody. I feel it's a fight that deep down everybody wants so generally when that happens, as long as everybody is sensible, you'll get there in the end. We're close, we're not over the line, the full contract is still to be finalised but I'd like to think that we will be in a position to move forward."

Hearn says he has learned to understand the unusual methods of Higgins that came to light during Parker's WBO defence against Hughie Fury in Britain last September when the Kiwi promoter launched a radical and personal crusade to have the referee changed that was ultimately successful.

"He's very quirky," Hearn said of Higgins. "He's completely unorthodox. But at the same time, he is out there in New Zealand and no disrespect to New Zealand but he probably has to do things a little bit different to get the attention of people."

Parker and Joshua have been on an inevitable collision course since turning professional and looked set to fight a year ago when the Kiwi had the mandatory challenging right's to the big Brit's IBF title. But Parker's handlers cleverly saw an opening for the vacant WBO belt and successfully achieved that by staging the title fight in Auckland against Andy Ruiz to get Parker one of the four main belts and put him in the glamour division's elite ranks.

"I think that was probably the right decision at the time, certainly a lot easier," Hearn said of side-stepping Joshua to fight Ruiz.

"And now we are here on the cusp of a unification fight with three belts on the line and one of the biggest fights in world boxing, certainly one of the most important fights in world boxing.

"Joseph Parker is going to make a lot of money and so is Anthony Joshua. But more than that, they are going to get a chance to unify the division."

While this is new territory for Team Parker, promoting superfights is growing increasingly comfortable for the canny Hearn, who has already overseen Joshua's win against Wladimir Klitschko in front of 90,0000 at Wembley and a huge defence in Cardiff against Carlos Takam.

Hearn has no doubt Joshua v Parker will be a blockbuster because of the circumstances – two young, unbeaten heavyweights putting their belts and reputations on the line.

"It's bread and butter for me because you sell a lot of fights that aren't in this league. This fight sells itself," he said.

- Stuff

(01-01-2018, 09:42 PM)NakiFan Wrote: [ -> ]Is it only me that reads posts by South Africa Man in a Sth African accent?

No same here haha. 

IM hearing it’s official.