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I find the amount of promotion Hughie is doing really interesting, he did zero promotion before the first fight.

UK Fight Fan may be right: First Fury, then AJ.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/95437683/joseph-parkers-hopes-of-fighting-anthony-joshua-boosted-by-wladimir-klitschkos-retirement

Parker's Trainer: Hughie Fury Could Bring The Best Out of Joe

By Ryan Burton

WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (23-0) recently started his training camp for his September 23rd mandatory defense against Hughie Fury (20-0).
The fight was originally scheduled for May 6th but Fury ended up pulling out of the fight with an injury.  Parker's team was able to secure a last minute replacement in Razvan Cojanu who was a former sparring partner of the Kiwi. Parker ended up winning a workmanlike unanimous decision in the first defense of his world title that he won last December against Andy Ruiz.
BoxingScene.com caught up with Parker's trainer Kevin Barry who said that they have had a great start to their second camp for Fury.

"Well we just have completed our first week of camp. It has been a very busy week. We have been training three times a day the first week. Look, we had a whole camp preparing for the Hughie Fury style and since then we have reevaluated it and even made changes for our second camp for Hughie. Joe and I feel very good about this training camp. There is real enthusiasm and purpose in this camp," said Barry.
"We are really excited about having our first fight in the UK. We have been trying to get there for the last 18 months.  I think Hughie Fury is the sort of opponent who will bring the best out of Joe. We need a challenge. We need to explode on the scene in the UK. He is undefeated. I don't believe he is as battle ready as Joseph Parker but he is a young guy who is getting better every time he gets in the ring. He is well coached and has a great team around him."
Duco Events, who co-promotes Parker along with Top Rank, who won the purse bid for the original fight that was scheduled to take place in New Zealand.  The rescheduled clash was agreed to without a purse bid and is slated to take place at the Manchester Arena in Fury's hometown in the UK.

Team Parker has wanted to fight in the UK for quite a while now with potential lucrative fights against the likes of Anthony Joshua, Tony Bellew and David Haye on the horizon.
With that being said, Barry has mixed feelings about facing Fury on his home turf especially after the fight was originally scheduled to take place in Parker's homeland.
"There are pros and cons for this. Obviously it is great for us to get the opportunity to get over to the UK and for Joe to display his skills in front of the audience we want to be in front of. The fact that we are going to be in Manchester, in Hughie's backyard, that will pose a few challenges for us. The crowd and supporters there have a great reputation of being pretty ruthless so that brings its own challenges. Joe's felt very comfortable in New Zealand and hence the first time the fight was scheduled to be in New Zealand and it was important for me to have the fight there so that is the pros and cons of it," Barry told BoxingScene.com.

Haha old Frans "I had fun with baby joseph"

Tbh he didn't look like he was having fun when he was getting bounced between the ropes and Joe's fists.

Kevin Barry demands 'explosive performance' from Joseph Parker against Hughie Fury

Trainer Kevin Barry believes Hughie Fury and the pressure of fighting in Britain will bring out the best in his WBO world heavyweight champion, Joseph Parker.
Barry and Parker are back in camp preparing for the September 23 title defence against Fury in Manchester.
It will be Parker's debut in the United Kingdom which has now supplanted the United States as the hotbed of the heavyweight scene.

British heavyweight Hughie Fury is confident he will "shock the world" on September 23.

Parker is eager to make an impact, knowing an impressive win over Fury will be a huge step towards bigger fights and bigger money.
 
"We are really excited about having our first fight in the UK. We have been trying to get there for the last 18 months. We need to explode on the scene in the UK," Barry told Boxing Scene.
"I think Hughie Fury is the sort of opponent who will bring the best out of Joe. We need a challenge. He is undefeated, I don't believe he is as battle ready as Joseph Parker but he is a young guy who is getting better every time he gets in the ring. He is well coached and has a great team around him."
Barry concedes there are obvious risks with taking the title on the road, especially into Fury's home base. But it's the right time to take up that challenge

"There are pros and cons for this. Obviously it is great for us to get the opportunity to get over to the UK and for Joe to display his skills in front of the audience we want to be in front of. The fact that we are going to be in Manchester, in Hughie's backyard, that will pose a few challenges for us. The crowd and supporters there have a great reputation of being pretty ruthless so that brings its own challenges."

Parker is expecting to have to dictate the fight against Fury who has an awkward style.
This is the second camp where Parker has given full attention to Fury. They were set to fight earlier in the year in Auckland, only for Fury to pull out with a back injury and be replaced at the last minute by big Romanian Razvan Cojanu whom Parker laboured to a points win against.
Barry said they had re-evaluated Fury and made adjustments for this second camp.
They had watched Fury fight an exhibition in London last month.
It was Fury's first time in a ring since beating American Frank Kassi for the vacant WBO intercontinental title in April last year.
 - Stuff

Tony Bellew confirms Joseph Parker's world heavyweight belt is preferred target

Tony Bellew hasn't fought since upsetting David Haye and says Joseph Parker's world heavyweight belt continues to be his next goal.

British boxing star Tony Bellew has confirmed Joseph Parker remains his preferred option as long as the Kiwi heavyweight can retain his WBO world heavyweight title against Hughie Fury.
Parker defends his title for the second time when he makes his long-awaited UK debut against Fury in Manchester on September 23.
Bellew, a world cruiserweight champion who stunned fellow British heavyweight David Haye last March, is back in training and eyeing his options.

He has ruled out a rematch with Haye. He likes the money involved in a fight with unbeaten world light-heavyweight champion Andre Ward but says Parker's belt tops his list.

Joseph Parker and promoter David Higgins met with Tony Bellew on a recent trip to Britain to promote Parker's September fight against Hughie Fury.

"We've sat down with Andre Ward's team, I've personally sat down with Joseph Parker and his team, and I leave Eddie (Hearn, his manager) to deal with the other fella (Haye) from London.
"David is an amazing fighter, athlete and sportsman, (but) when it comes to business he's an absolute moron ... well it's not even him, it's people his side.
"I'm sure they say the business people my side are morons too because we're all fighting to get that little percentage more.
"I'm further away than ever with the David Haye fight, that's just the way it is. I'm a lot closer now to the Andre Ward fight than I ever have been before.
"I like the Andre Ward fight. The numbers didn't match up at first but then Eddie worked out a way where it can work favourably for what I want.
"There's the Joseph Parker fight; the lure of becoming heavyweight champion for me outweighs everything else.
"The money does play a factor but the lure and the dream of becoming heavyweight champion of the world - no money in the world can ever make that up."
Parker is eager to make his fortune in Britain. Beating Fury and then taking out the respected, but smaller, Bellew would be an ideal lead-in to a unification bout with WBC and IBF champion Anthony Joshua.
Parker, 25, is being courted in the United States as well.
Top Rank boss Bob Arum, who co-promotes Parker in an American capacity, is eager to have the Kiwi fight against Bryant Jennings who is on the comeback trail.
Arum has signed Jennings who hasn't fought for almost two years. Jennings is looking to rebound from consecutive losses in 2015 -  a points decision to then-world champion Wladimir Klitschko followed by a seventh-round knockout loss to giant Cuban Luis Ortiz.
The 32-year-old Jennings faces Daniel Martz in Nebraska next week and Arum would then like him to step up a notch in December.
"And then if all goes well in that fight, we will try to make a world title fight for him. I'll try to make Joseph Parker against Jennings on ESPN in the United States next spring," Arum told ESPN boxing.
 - Stuff