Daniel Dubois vs. Joseph Parker | PPV - 22 February 2025 (OFF)

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[mickey1975]

1 of the best cards of all time from top to bottom, Madrimov fighting Bohachuk in December then Vergil in February is an elite boss move, the Eastern Europeans don't mess about, it's a pity the Yanks and Brits do

Dubois run of Usyk, Miller, Hrg, Aj and Parker in 18 months is pretty good going.

[Ruthless-RKO]

1 of the best cards of all time from top to bottom, Madrimov fighting Bohachuk in December then Vergil in February is an elite boss move, the Eastern Europeans don't mess about, it's a pity the Yanks and Brits do

Dubois run of Usyk, Miller, Hrg, Aj and Parker in 18 months is pretty good going.

Will he hit a brick wall this time? Let’s see.

Definitely a good run.

[handsofstone]

1 of the best cards of all time from top to bottom, Madrimov fighting Bohachuk in December then Vergil in February is an elite boss move, the Eastern Europeans don't mess about, it's a pity the Yanks and Brits do

Dubois run of Usyk, Miller, Hrg, Aj and Parker in 18 months is pretty good going.

Aye it's a cracking resume Dubois is building, I'm not saying all the British and Americans are mouthpieces but too many of them are, you don't see many of the eastern contingent constantly talking bollocks on Twitter although Alimkhanuly is pretty annoying

[Autobarn]

I guess it will be a good test of Dubois. He's fallen to pieces when an opponent has implemented a solid plan and stuck with it. The consistent basic boxing of Joyce and Usyk is what caused him to fall apart.

We know that Parker, coming off the wins over Zhang and Wilder, can stick to a boxing plan. Just hoping the negativity or lack of urgency that has caused many disappointments doesn't re-emerge.

I've always felt the past few years have provided many good heavyweight battles and that Parker has been one of the few who can make an event turn somewhat flat. Although his fights with Whyte, Joyce and Chisora were all good.

[Ruthless-RKO]

Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol II set for February 22 in Riyadh

Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol will rematch for the undisputed light heavyweight title on February 22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, headlining the latest Riyadh Season event on a card stacked with championship bouts.

The main event, announced Monday on social media and billed as "The Last Crescendo," will revisit the October clash in which Beterbiev narrowly edged Bivol via majority decision to unify the division.

In that fight, the 39-year-old Beterbiev, 21-0 (20 KOs), who has spent much of his career training in Montreal, went the distance for the first time. Meanwhile, the 33-year-old Bivol, 23-1 (12 KOs), suffered his first career defeat despite outlanding Beterbiev 142-134 on punches, according to CompuBox. Beterbiev, for his part, landed 90 power shots to Bivol’s 84, highlighting the razor-thin margin.

The undercard will see IBF heavyweight titleholder Daniel Dubois, 22-2 (21 KOs), defend his title against Joseph Parker, 35-3 (23 KOs). Dubois, 27, from the UK, is on a three-fight win streak following a 2023 stoppage loss to Oleksandr Usyk. Parker, 32, a New Zealand former titleholder, enters on a five-fight win streak, with notable victories over Deontay Wilder and Zhilei Zhang. Parker’s last title fight was a loss to Anthony Joshua in 2018, while Dubois knocked out Joshua in his most recent fight.

WBC lightweight titleholder Shakur Stevenson, 22-0 (10 KOs), will face Floyd Schofield, 18-0 (12 KOs). Stevenson, 27, originally from Newark and now training in Houston, accepted the challenge from Schofield, 22, nicknamed “Kid Austin,” following Schofield’s unanimous decision win over Rene Tellez Giron last month, after Schofield called Stevenson out. Their exchanges on social media helped build anticipation for this showdown, which many believed to be out of reach for Schofield.

Carlos Adames, 24-1 (18 KOs), will defend his WBC middleweight title against Hamzah Sheeraz, 21-0 (17 KOs). Adames, 30, based in Las Vegas, has been plagued by inactivity (fighting just once per year since 2022) but is riding a six-fight win streak. Sheeraz, 25, from the UK, earned the title shot with a stoppage of Tyler Denny in September.

The WBC interim junior middleweight title will be contested between Vergil Ortiz Jnr, 22-0 (21 KOs), and Israil Madrimov, 10-1-1 (7 KOs). Ortiz, 26, from Grand Prairie, Texas, won a majority decision over Serhii Bohachuk in August to capture the title. Madrimov, 29, from Uzbekistan, is coming off a unanimous decision loss to Terence Crawford in August in Los Angeles, marking Crawford’s debut at 154lbs. More perplexing is that Madrimov will be scheduled for this fight while keeping his fight on December 21 with Bohachuk.

“It’s surprising to see, considering Serhii knocked Vergil down twice and sent him to the hospital [August 10 in Ortiz’s narrow victory by decision in Las Vegas],” Tom Loeffler, Bohachuk’s promoter told Boxing Scene on Monday.

Madrimov would be left with just over two months to recover and prepare against a WBC interim titleholder who has knocked out every foe except Bohachuk.

Also on the card, 41-year-old Zhilei Zhang, 27-2-1 (22 KOs), will face Germany’s Agit Kabayel, 25-0 (17 KOs), for the WBC interim heavyweight title. Zhang, who twice stopped Joe Joyce before losing to Parker, rebounded with a dramatic knockout of Wilder in June. Kabayel, 32, earned this opportunity by stopping Frank Sanchez and Arslanbek Makhmudov in back-to-back fights.

Opening the event, Joshua Buatsi, 19-0 (13 KOs), will defend his WBO interim light heavyweight title against Callum Smith, 30-2 (22 KOs). Buatsi, 31, a 2016 Olympic bronze medalist training in California with Virgil Hunter, is coming off wins over Dan Azeez and Willy Hutchinson in 2024. Smith, 34, rebounded from a stoppage loss to Beterbiev with a fifth-round knockout of Carlos Galvan on Saturday.

[Coco]

Rubbish card......

[Ruthless-RKO]

Rubbish card......

Turki lad needs to do better doesn't he?

[Coco]

Rubbish card......

Turki lad needs to do better doesn't he?

Needs to put on some competitive fights with bigger names

[tony1234]

The bottom of the bill is quality let alone the rest, can't wait for this

[Ruthless-RKO]

[margaret thatcher]

how am i going to enjoy the fight without some raw juicy beef though

[cormack]

Parker gonna get his belt back I think

[Ruthless-RKO]

how am i going to enjoy the fight without some raw juicy beef though

Commonwealth beef!!

Haha Parker’s too much of a gent.

And Dubois doesn’t have enough brain cells.

[KiwiRider]

Parker gonna get his belt back I think

Maybe, it still feels like a 50/50
Parker is looking more solid in the body and shoulders, this talk of him doing strength and power training hopefully hasn't neglected cardio, which has always helped him win.

[samwbr]

Love it if Joe wins this but Dubois the young champ going forward also good.

[margaret thatcher]

dubois doesnt have as much 1 shot power as zhang, but his output is much higher and more consistent. tbh, vs higher level opponents dan is not so much a ko merchant as he is a fit, grind you down type. i think he has a realistic chance of beating parker like joyce did.............that said, i do think joe has improved as a boxer and it will be harder for dubs to pull that on him

[cormack]

my only concern re parker is he tends to get hit too much - Joyce obviously tko / zang dropped him twice .
cant afford to show dd his chin like that

[KiwiRider]

The poll on this one is so wild for a heavyweight fight.
No one gives Doobie a chance of out pointing Parker, and only one person gives Parker a chance of stopping Doobie.

[The Gratest]

how am i going to enjoy the fight without some raw juicy beef though

Did the awkward handshake turning to fist bump not get you going?
Psychological advantage to Dubs there, made Parker adjust to what he wanted to do! (Although Dubs has no actual idea that he did this).

I'm just so undecided with this one. I like both guys a lot, especially after the routes they've taken of late, showing the balls to take on dangerous opponents, not just once but twice and then (in Dub's case) thrice!

Of the opponents they've beaten on their recent comebacks to get to where they are now, I probably rate Dub's wins higher than Parker's, but not taking anything away from Parker's impressive wins.
I just see more flaws in Parker's opponents that he was able to exploit, whereas Dubs answered a few more questions in his wins.

Wilder - he forced him on to the back foot from the start and never gave him any room to land his right hand. Wilder offered nothing in return and Parker made it look relatively simple.
Zhang - a helluva puncher, but a guy who doesn't fight at pace and very economical with his punch output. Parker fought smart and was able to keep Zhang in check at times with his own well picked punches.

After the doubts over his heart with the manner of the stoppages against Joyce and Usyk, Dubois has done a lot to quell those doubts.
The Joyce defeat...I don't know what the pain must be like getting repeatedly smacked by an 18st guy on a shattered eye socket, but it's probably pretty painful. He was still young enough to take that loss and come again rather than risking his eyesight and career.

Against Usyk, he was getting outboxed and peppered with shots. Maybe psychologically, if the opponent is offering you more of an opportunity to actually land some of your own your and feel like your still in a with a chance then you suck it up and carry on. If that feeling of every time you threw, you missed or got blocked and got countered back, then it becomes more sickening. It wasn't a good look at the time though, going down and getting stopped by a jab, and it seemed to spell the end for Dubs at World level.

His comeback has been brilliant though and against Miller and Hrg, he was in against opponents who he could land his own punches and feel them sinking in, having an effect.
The Miller stoppage is probably the most i've cheered for a fighter in a long time. Miller's a handful for anyone. He's massive and, despite his bulk, he does have a decent punch output. A lot of his punches are arm punches, but still carry considerable weight and also make the opponent think that they're getting tagged. Dubs came through some difficult moments and still had the energy to finish of Miller with a salvo near the end.
Against Hrg, he took some massive right crosses, but fired back straight away. It may have been a TKO due to Hrg's facial damage, but he'd taken the best Hrg had to offer and I think had taken the fight out of him as well by then.
He's displayed a neat double jab of late and a bit more head and lateral movement (although did eat a lot of Hrg's rights).
In a way, I rate both these wins higher than the win over Joshua. Mainly because of the weird manner in which Joshua fought. He had his hands down in a similar manner to when he got tagged the first time by Ruiz (contrast that to how tight and cautious he was against Ngannou). I don't know if he didn't see Dubs as a threat, or if the occasion got to him (strange as he's previously been in so many big fights). He was just a sitting target for Dubs to cut down and offered little in response.

With Wilder and Zhang, Parker had a game plan to exploit their weaknesses and stuck to it. Against Dubs, I think he'll end up reverting back to the Parker style that fought the likes of Whyte and Chisora. I see Dubs as being better than any version of those 2 and, unlike Wilder and Zhang, willing to let his hands go as soon as Parker throws his shots. I can see Dubs taking it on a close points win, Parker edging the earlier rounds by landing first and smothering/moving back, but then getting more involved in the middle rounds and possibly a knockdown late on for Dubs sealing the win.

[jamesmcdonnell]

how am i going to enjoy the fight without some raw juicy beef though

Did the awkward handshake turning to fist bump not get you going?
Psychological advantage to Dubs there, made Parker adjust to what he wanted to do! (Although Dubs has no actual idea that he did this).

I'm just so undecided with this one. I like both guys a lot, especially after the routes they've taken of late, showing the balls to take on dangerous opponents, not just once but twice and then (in Dub's case) thrice!

Of the opponents they've beaten on their recent comebacks to get to where they are now, I probably rate Dub's wins higher than Parker's, but not taking anything away from Parker's impressive wins.
I just see more flaws in Parker's opponents that he was able to exploit, whereas Dubs answered a few more questions in his wins.

Wilder - he forced him on to the back foot from the start and never gave him any room to land his right hand. Wilder offered nothing in return and Parker made it look relatively simple.
Zhang - a helluva puncher, but a guy who doesn't fight at pace and very economical with his punch output. Parker fought smart and was able to keep Zhang in check at times with his own well picked punches.

After the doubts over his heart with the manner of the stoppages against Joyce and Usyk, Dubois has done a lot to quell those doubts.
The Joyce defeat...I don't know what the pain must be like getting repeatedly smacked by an 18st guy on a shattered eye socket, but it's probably pretty painful. He was still young enough to take that loss and come again rather than risking his eyesight and career.

Against Usyk, he was getting outboxed and peppered with shots. Maybe psychologically, if the opponent is offering you more of an opportunity to actually land some of your own your and feel like your still in a with a chance then you suck it up and carry on. If that feeling of every time you threw, you missed or got blocked and got countered back, then it becomes more sickening. It wasn't a good look at the time though, going down and getting stopped by a jab, and it seemed to spell the end for Dubs at World level.

His comeback has been brilliant though and against Miller and Hrg, he was in against opponents who he could land his own punches and feel them sinking in, having an effect.
The Miller stoppage is probably the most i've cheered for a fighter in a long time. Miller's a handful for anyone. He's massive and, despite his bulk, he does have a decent punch output. A lot of his punches are arm punches, but still carry considerable weight and also make the opponent think that they're getting tagged. Dubs came through some difficult moments and still had the energy to finish of Miller with a salvo near the end.
Against Hrg, he took some massive right crosses, but fired back straight away. It may have been a TKO due to Hrg's facial damage, but he'd taken the best Hrg had to offer and I think had taken the fight out of him as well by then.
He's displayed a neat double jab of late and a bit more head and lateral movement (although did eat a lot of Hrg's rights).
In a way, I rate both these wins higher than the win over Joshua. Mainly because of the weird manner in which Joshua fought. He had his hands down in a similar manner to when he got tagged the first time by Ruiz (contrast that to how tight and cautious he was against Ngannou). I don't know if he didn't see Dubs as a threat, or if the occasion got to him (strange as he's previously been in so many big fights). He was just a sitting target for Dubs to cut down and offered little in response.

With Wilder and Zhang, Parker had a game plan to exploit their weaknesses and stuck to it. Against Dubs, I think he'll end up reverting back to the Parker style that fought the likes of Whyte and Chisora. I see Dubs as being better than any version of those 2 and, unlike Wilder and Zhang, willing to let his hands go as soon as Parker throws his shots. I can see Dubs taking it on a close points win, Parker edging the earlier rounds by landing first and smothering/moving back, but then getting more involved in the middle rounds and possibly a knockdown late on for Dubs sealing the win.

If Parker gets through the first couple of rounds, when Dubois comes out of the corner like a pitbull with a lit fag stubbed out on it's ringer, I think he can take this.

The blueprint to beat Dubois has been shown, lateral movement, keep yourself out of harms way for the first few rounds, and keep landing the jab, stop dubois getting set, and keep poking away, and break his heart.

Joyce who is hardly wayne sleep footwork wise, was able to do this quite easily, as was Usyk of course.

What you cannot do, is stand winging away big shots standing in front of Dubois, as AJ found out, if he's set and able to throw bombs without having to move, he's extremely dangerous.

I like Parker's chances, provided he doesn't get hurt in the first couple of rounds.

Cue 1st round KO from Dubois.

[jameswilson]

Really can’t pick this one. Think both can hurt the other and also think both can outbox each other to nick the rounds as they go by.

[Ruthless-RKO]

I WANT Parker to win.

[joshj909]

I WANT Parker to win.

I want him to win too. I think he will win as well, however, I also didn't think Dubois would beat Hrgovic or Joshua either.

[Coco]

I'm at Parker points.

He has a good chin and knows how to look after himself.

JJJ just went at him and wore him out.

I think DDD will use different tactics, he will box more but also try and land the heavy shots.

In my opinion, Parker will get through any crisis, and sneak the rounds, especially in the second half of the fight.