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Joshua: Parker will respect me after I whoop him

By Daily Sports on January 15, 2018

IBF/WBA heavyweight Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs) has already made it clear that he’s not going to shake the hands of WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker (24-0, 18 KOs) after their March 31 unification fight.

Joshua says he won’t shake the hands of Parker, 26, after he beats him. Beating the hard-hitting steal-chinned Parker isn’t a forgone conclusion for Joshua.

He’ll be respectful after I whoop him. He might try to shake my hand. I won’t shake his hand though,” said Joshua to skysports.com.

“I haven’t seen them all, but I’ve heard some of them,” said Joshua about Parker making negative comments about him. ”He’s not a respectable type of person, he can’t control himself.”

Joshua wants Parker to play it cool with him by being nice and polite like his past opponents. Parker isn’t going for that. He doesn’t want to be a nice guy to Joshua, who he doesn’t appear to like very much. The two fighters had a tough negotiation process with Parker getting the smaller purse of 30 to 35 percent.

Parker was hoping to get 40 percent of the loot, but his management wasn’t able to get Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn to agree to give him the split he wanted.

As such, there’s bad blood on Parker’s side, and he’s not about to forget about it in the lead up to the fight.

“Jab to the stomach, right hand to the stomach. If someone has got a strong head, you hit them to the body. It’s quite simple so if Parker’s got a granite chin, I’ll weaken his body down,” said Joshua.

•Photo shows Joseph Parker.

Source Daily Sports

Posted January 15, 2018