As combat followers are conscious, one other stacked card is within the works, for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in March (the eighth or the ninth). Anthony Joshua Vs. Francis Ngannou will headline the cardboard, however there guarantees to be another huge heavyweight match ups going down on the night time. We’ve heard speak of a attainable heavyweight collision between Zhilei Zhang and Deontay Wilder, and the very concept of this combat has acquired some blood pumping.
However Joseph Parker, who after all scored a dominant resolution win over an oddly flat, ring-rusty Wilder again in December, needs to combat “Large Bang” Zhang himself, or Filip Hrgovic. In actual fact, as he made clear when talking with Speak Sport Combat Evening, Parker is just about keen to combat any huge title on the upcoming card.
The at the moment 34-3(23) Parker, who scored the largest win of his profession by hammering Wilder, needs to maintain the momentum going, each strongly and impressively.
“I might like to combat in March. They’ve already given me the indication that there’s a chance that I might be combating on that card,” Parker mentioned. “Pay attention, I’m coaching day-after-day, working laborious, consuming clear, and simply having fun with relaxation time – however I do know there’s a combat looming very quickly. All these names which were chucked at us, we’ve mentioned sure to each one in all them. I feel it’s good to say sure and provide these fights, however there’s issues that occur behind the scenes that we’ve got to work on, by way of negotiations. Each title like Zhang, Hrgovic or anybody – no matter they’ve mentioned we’ve mentioned sure to.”
There is no such thing as a doubt about it, Parker, as the previous WBO heavyweight champion’s spectacular resume reveals, is keen to combat nearly anybody: AJ, Andy Ruiz, Wilder, Dillian Whyte, Joe Joyce. And now maybe Zhang or Hrgovic.
If we will’t get the completely mouthwatering Wilder-Zhang combat, a Parker-Zhang combat can be fairly attention-grabbing as an alternative. Hrgovic, the IBF #1 contender, in opposition to Parker would even be a combat we followers would for certain take.
The heavyweight division is buzzing proper now, even when not all followers like the concept of crossover fights between MMA and boxing stars. That mentioned, the Joshua-Ngannou combat will certainly be an entire lot of enjoyable to observe, whereas the supporting card may show big. Let’s hope the Saudi’s hold the low pay-per-view value they charged for “The Day of Reckoning” card of December twenty third.
