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(10-20-2017, 07:20 PM)craigyid14 Wrote: (10-20-2017, 01:46 PM)bart Wrote: Won't be miller he won't travel and risk/reward not good enough
I believe it will be Fujimoto as very winnable for good coin and exposure in asia
Its not what I want to see its what I believe we will see
No point fighting in NZ again - most decent fighters seem to be booked out
Some good exposure in asia (the hotbed of heavyweight boxing), thatll do his career wonders.... Lets be honest about this, if he fights the japanese fella its about money and the fact duco are worried about him losing his title before an even bigger payday.
Of course. What else would it be?
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(10-20-2017, 08:06 PM)diehard Wrote: (10-20-2017, 07:20 PM)craigyid14 Wrote: (10-20-2017, 01:46 PM)bart Wrote: Won't be miller he won't travel and risk/reward not good enough
I believe it will be Fujimoto as very winnable for good coin and exposure in asia
Its not what I want to see its what I believe we will see
No point fighting in NZ again - most decent fighters seem to be booked out
Some good exposure in asia (the hotbed of heavyweight boxing), thatll do his career wonders.... Lets be honest about this, if he fights the japanese fella its about money and the fact duco are worried about him losing his title before an even bigger payday.
Of course. What else would it be?
The whinging about this fight seems endless.
So you think Joe should be managed like no other fighter in history.
Duco shouldn’t treat Joes career as a business .
They shouldn’t maximising his earnings against risk , and only take the hardest fights possible because that’s what you want to see.
I get it already.
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Yep westy it is a business maximising your earnings in a short and dangerous career.
We can all say Joe should fight all the tough guys right now... so what does that achieve -if he loses he get called a bum and he loses his potential big payday.
Business is business
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I have never known a fanbase to be more concerned with their fighters earnings than seeing him in good fights.
it's odd.
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We are pragmatists, Inferno.
We want our countryman to do well financially as well as get to the top.
He would be literally an idiot not to want that also.
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So why does his team not look to put him in against Zhilei Zhang if they're going down this road? That would be a far more challenging fight instead of fighting this guy who's struggling to put away Paul Gallen's leftovers.
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Why not fight both the Japanese and the Chinese guy in the same night? Double the money, another 2 pointless defenses and then move onto maybe a Cambodian heavyweight....
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I think we all saw Tua put up some great fights but ultimately finish up without the millions so we would like to see Joe have great fights and make the millions - however the big fights out there aren't winnable without taking some long term brain damage - Wilder, Joshua even Povetkin/Ortiz all have scary power -
It's a no brainer for me and I'll watch it with a smile - KO rd1 - joseph sends the flying noodle over the ropes and into the ring side tables- makes a real mess of Bob Arums Chop Suey
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Tua made the millions (at least 20), he just had it robbed off him. Tua's record is a 'who's, who' Parkers is a 'who?'. They don't compare, one fought all the top fighters and contenders and one seems to be avoiding them.
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Interesting comparison. For his 24th fight, Tua fought Anthony Cooks who had a record of 7/5. Parker fought Fury who had a record of 20/0
