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a real possibility who wins this ??

Usyk, but Parker is game. Also would be reasonable fight for both if they want a shot down the line.

Usyk will be the betting favourite to emerge victorious by decision in a bruising competitive encounter.

That being said, I wasn’t impressed by Usyk’s performance against Witherspoon, who was a past-his-prime flabby small heavyweight who never achieved anything of note throughout the course of his entire career.

So for me, the jury is still out on Usyk’s prowess at heavyweight. And a victory over Parker will go a long way to help me determine whether he’s good enough to compete with the likes of Wilder, Fury and Joshua.

Usyk no1 wbo and Parker no2 both with Eddie , this May well be for the WBO title with the winner fighting AJ Sept-Oct 2020 in a unification. Parker will really test Usyk.

Parker is ok but very overrated, he's never shown much against a world class opponent and struggled with Hughie Fury (beaten hands down by Povetkin and Pulev) and Razvan Cojanu (who was beaten easily by Gorman and destroyed by Dubois)

He has decent speed and okish power (never stopped a world class fighter). You'd need a good solid jab to deter Usyk and Parker flicks his out rather than ram it (was very uneffective vs AJ). Usyk would beat Parker pretty comprehensively IMO

Usyk wins all the rounds easy

filibert wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 09:42 Usyk wins all the rounds easy

Depends on Parker's motivation. No title thou... But! A shoot at the p4p is what it is. And Usyk is up there right now. But still around the 10th contender in the Div.

Where the hell is Dag?

Parker wins 101% ... Usyk is not ready for 70% of HWs in top 15

Parker wins if he comes in under 240.
Usyk is overweight at 215.

I doubt Usyk weighs much less than 215 in the ring as a cruiser. Maybe more around 210 but that's not much at all.

Would be a competitive fight. I figure Usyk will win a close decision. Maybe 116-112 or 115-113.

This is actually probably a more difficult style match for Usyk than some of the top guys might be for him.

..will be kind of a litmus paper test showing what USYK is actually capable of as a HW..

gilgamesh wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 15:39 Would be a competitive fight. I figure Usyk will win a close decision. Maybe 116-112 or 115-113.

This is actually probably a more difficult style match for Usyk than some of the top guys might be for him.

Agreed.

Parker is very fast and fairly slick.

He isn't as skilled as Usyk, but to be fair, none of the other HWs are.

I'd take Usyk on points, but it won't be easy for him.

J.P wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 05:37 a real possibility who wins this ??

It's not that real a possibility.
Usyk will fight Del Boy then Joshua.
Parker, even though he has a 3 fight deal with Matchroom is left out in the cold. He was too ill to fight Chisora, has now missed any chance of fighting Del, and it is nearly a year since he was last in the ring, with nothing on the horizon.

Well despite his inactivity, Parker just moved up to #2 in the WBO rankings after Usyk. Hmmm....

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 17:30 Well despite his inactivity, Parker just moved up to #2 in the WBO rankings after Usyk. Hmmm....

F*cking boxing politics

Paci wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:01

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 17:30 Well despite his inactivity, Parker just moved up to #2 in the WBO rankings after Usyk. Hmmm....

F*cking boxing politics

Maybethey are setting up a title match with Parker for vacant title?

oogiebe wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:04

Paci wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:01

F*cking boxing politics

Maybethey are setting up a title match with Parker for vacant title?

Maybe. Or they should fight an eliminator tops in my book. But otherwise winning a vacant title is more or less a paperbelt.
I don't think AJ would like unfication with a belt he lost cause of it.

Paci wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:08

oogiebe wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:04
Maybethey are setting up a title match with Parker for vacant title?

Maybe. Or they should fight an eliminator tops in my book. But otherwise winning a vacant title is more or less a paperbelt.
I don't think AJ would like unfication with a belt he lost cause of it.

He fought Martin for faux belt.

oogiebe wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:12

Paci wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:08

Maybe. Or they should fight an eliminator tops in my book. But otherwise winning a vacant title is more or less a paperbelt.
I don't think AJ would like unfication with a belt he lost cause of it.

He fought Martin for faux belt.

Yeah, he did. But he unfied also.
Boxing gives me a brain hemangioma all the time.

Paci wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:17

oogiebe wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:12
He fought Martin for faux belt.

Yeah, he did. But he unfied also.
Boxing gives me a brain hemangioma all the time.

Always goes back to too many sanctioning bodies. Terrible.

oogiebe wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:24

Paci wrote: ↑19 Dec 2019, 19:17

Yeah, he did. But he unfied also.
Boxing gives me a brain hemangioma all the time.

Always goes back to too many sanctioning bodies. Terrible.

F*ck'em. Im going by the top 10 or lineal stuff.
And some might say that Fury ain't the lineal champ, some do. For me, the next fight will make the some of the less hardcore puritans claim he is a two-time champ if he beats Wilder. So he can claim that too.

The ring runaways who started their own thing cause of their nerdiness and lost their s*it over May(#1) vs Guerrero(#3) to fill the vacancy is just abite too funny and yeah, they could just have given the belt to Mayweather. He had beaten Mosely for the claim a couple of years back.