The statistics dont tell the full story.
Dominic Guinn for example is several levels above Jason Bergman regardless of what their numbers are, Guinn has just fought top level guys where bergman built an ok record fighting guys in high school gyms.
Likewise as for the KO ratio, again i mention Guinn, he never gets stopped. And there are quite a few names like that on hughies resume. Even someone like Moses Matoovu, who to casual fans looks like a bum with his record, notice that in 64 losses, he has been stopped only 7 times. He is a survival expert. Hughie has faced awkward, frustrating fighters who Peter Fury has selected to not give hughie an easy development.
That being said, parker has considerably more power, that isnt a question.
HOWEVER, parker in my opinion hasnt fought even one opponent who i would describe as a skilled boxer. He didnt fight any coming up, and ruiz and takam are high level brawlers.
Hughie has attributes that parker has not faced such as elite level movement, ability to fight at long range, top level jab, inside and outside game, good body work, accuracy etc. Parker hasn't ever faced these attributes in the pro's and he was troubled by them and lost fights by being outboxed in the amateurs. His entire pro career, he has been put in with opponents who are very favorable style matchups for him, this time that is not the case.
Hughie seems to have a good chin, and defensivley hes a lot more elusive than takam and ruiz, who parker never hurt. So there is a scenario here where parker finds it difficult to find hughie, and with parkers lack of head movement or defence, he could end up walking into the jab and getting sliced up.
Of course on the flipside hughies chin may not be as good as i think and he might not be able to handle it when parker does land.
But hughie is no Dimitrenko, he's not going to stand upright with no defence and let parker bomb him away, he's going to be moving around the ring, FAST, moving his head and pumping a very good jab. He will come with ambition, he has sparred with Tyson Fury for years, as well as his sparring partners, Steve Cunningham, eddie chambers etc. So skill wise, parker won't have anything he hasn't seen before.
The truth is we dont know enough about hughie fury to know whats going to happen, but I think stylistically he has enough to cause joe problems, the question is how much he can go up the gears for a big fight, because if he's (like tyson) been fighting to the level of his opponents, this could be a long night for joe.
Dominic Guinn for example is several levels above Jason Bergman regardless of what their numbers are, Guinn has just fought top level guys where bergman built an ok record fighting guys in high school gyms.
Likewise as for the KO ratio, again i mention Guinn, he never gets stopped. And there are quite a few names like that on hughies resume. Even someone like Moses Matoovu, who to casual fans looks like a bum with his record, notice that in 64 losses, he has been stopped only 7 times. He is a survival expert. Hughie has faced awkward, frustrating fighters who Peter Fury has selected to not give hughie an easy development.
That being said, parker has considerably more power, that isnt a question.
HOWEVER, parker in my opinion hasnt fought even one opponent who i would describe as a skilled boxer. He didnt fight any coming up, and ruiz and takam are high level brawlers.
Hughie has attributes that parker has not faced such as elite level movement, ability to fight at long range, top level jab, inside and outside game, good body work, accuracy etc. Parker hasn't ever faced these attributes in the pro's and he was troubled by them and lost fights by being outboxed in the amateurs. His entire pro career, he has been put in with opponents who are very favorable style matchups for him, this time that is not the case.
Hughie seems to have a good chin, and defensivley hes a lot more elusive than takam and ruiz, who parker never hurt. So there is a scenario here where parker finds it difficult to find hughie, and with parkers lack of head movement or defence, he could end up walking into the jab and getting sliced up.
Of course on the flipside hughies chin may not be as good as i think and he might not be able to handle it when parker does land.
But hughie is no Dimitrenko, he's not going to stand upright with no defence and let parker bomb him away, he's going to be moving around the ring, FAST, moving his head and pumping a very good jab. He will come with ambition, he has sparred with Tyson Fury for years, as well as his sparring partners, Steve Cunningham, eddie chambers etc. So skill wise, parker won't have anything he hasn't seen before.
The truth is we dont know enough about hughie fury to know whats going to happen, but I think stylistically he has enough to cause joe problems, the question is how much he can go up the gears for a big fight, because if he's (like tyson) been fighting to the level of his opponents, this could be a long night for joe.