Joseph Parker

Joseph Parker
Data
Birth Name	Joseph Dennis Parker
Weight class	Heavyweight
nationality	New Zealand
birthday	January 9, 1992
place of birth	Auckland
style	Left delivery
size	1.93 m
Range	1.93 m
Combat Statistics
Struggles	29
Victories	27
Knockout victories	21st
Defeats	2
draw	0
No value	0
Profile in the BoxRec database

Joseph Parker medal table
Boxing
New Zealand
Youth Olympic Games
silver	2010	Super heavyweight
Youth World Championships
bronze	2010	Super heavyweight
Arafura Games
gold	2011	Super heavyweight

Joseph Parker (* 9. January 1992 in Auckland , New Zealand , as Joseph Dennis Parker ) is one of New Zealand boxer in the heavyweight and former World Champion of the Association WBO and former New Zealand and WBO Oriental, WBO Africa, WBA -Ocean-, WBA - PABA -, WBA-PABA-Interims-, WBC - EPBC - and WBC- OPBF -Champion. He is trained by Kevin Barry .

Amateur career

Parker had a thoroughly successful amateur career. From 2010 to 2012 he was New Zealand champion three times in a row. In 2010 he took part in both the Youth Olympic Games and the World Youth Championships .

At the Youth Olympic Games he defeated Daniil Svaresciuc in the semifinals and met the Frenchman Tony Yoka in the final , who became world champion in 2015 in the senior class in Doha and in the following year in the summer Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro - both in super heavyweight - Olympic champion . Parker won the silver medal here .

At the youth world championships he defeated, among others, the Turks Yusuf Acik with 7: 2 and the Cuban Yuniel Castro with 9: 1 each on points and made it to the semi-finals. There, however, he lost against the tournament winner and later European senior champion Filip Hrgović 8: 6 on points.

In 2011 Parker won gold at the Arafura Games in Darwin, Australia . He defeated Jean Tuisamoa , Jake Ageidu and Emilie Gineste .

Parker also won several international tournaments, including the China Open and the 50 Winner Tournament in Belgrade , where he beat Erik Pfeifer and Johan Linde , among others .

Professional career

The 1.93 m tall, technically very strong and equipped with plenty of clout left-hand boom made his successful debut in Auckland City on July 5, 2011 , when he won against his compatriot Dean Garmonsway by a technical knockout in round 1.

The then 44-year-old South African Francois Botha (record 48-9-3) was the first well-known boxer that Parker could defeat in the pros. He succeeded in doing this on June 13, 2013 through TKo. In his 7th fight, he beat Afa Tatupu for the New Zealand championship. On April 26, 2014 he defeated Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (record 17-5-0) and thus won the interim PABA belt. In July of the same year, the Oriental title of the WBO was added when he defeated Brian Minto (record 39-7-0) in a battle scheduled for 10 rounds in the 7th round by giving up. In October of the same year he won against Sherman Williams (record 36-13-2) over 10 rounds clearly and unanimously on points. Just two months later, Parker also defended his title against Brazilian Irineu Beato Costa Junior (15-1-0).

His next opponent was the American Jason Pettaway (17-1-0). Parker knocked him heavily in round 4 Also the German-Turk Yakup Saglam (34-3-0) had no chance and already lost in round 2 by TKo. Next he defeated Bowie Tupou (25-3-0) in a fight scheduled for 12 rounds . 0) in round 1 by classic knockout. This win earned him two more titles, namely the OPBF title, which was vacant , and the WBO Africa title.

In Parker's next fight, in addition to his four belts, the WBA Ocean and the WBC Eurasia Pacific titles, both of which were vacant, were at stake. His opponent was the 45-year-old, 1.96 m tall Kali Meehan (42-5-0-). As expected by almost all experts, Meehan also had no chance and was knocked out in the 3rd round.

Parker put down all belts except for the WBO Oriental and the WBC OPBF and successfully defended the WBO Oriental belt against Daniel Martz (14-2-1) with a knockout victory in Round 1.

On January 22, 2016, Parker met southpaw Jason Bergman in the Samoan capital, Apia . Parker won this 12-round battle in round 8 with a technical knockout. With this victory, Parker defended his WBO Oriental belt for the eighth time.

In Horncastle Arena in the New Zealand city of Christchurch , Canterbury , joined Parker on May 21 of that year in an IBF eliminator bout against the muscular and robust built in France living Cameroonian Carlos Takam (33-2-1 record) and decided this fight by a unanimous decision of the judges (116: 112, 116: 112, 115: 113).

Exactly two months later, Parker defended the title of the Oriental and Pacific Boxing Federation (OPBF for short) for the second time and the WBO Oriental title for the ninth time when he gave his compatriot Solomon Haumono (record 24-2-2) his second K. .-o.-defeat.

The Ukrainian giant Alexander Dimitrenko also knocked out hard (classic) round 3 against Parker on October 1, 2016 at the Vodafone Events Center in Auckland. With this win, Parker defended his Oriental belt for the tenth time.

Win the WBO world title

When the Briton Tyson Fury resigned the WBA and WBO world championship titles in October of the same year because of depression, Parker and the also undefeated Mexican Andy Ruiz were allowed to box for the vacant WBO world championship title, as both placed accordingly in the WBO world rankings were. This fight took place on December 10, 2016 at the Vector Arena in Auckland, New Zealand. Parker won by majority decision, becoming the first New Zealand heavyweight world champion.

Title defenses

Hughie Fury , Tyson Fury's cousin, was number 1 in the WBO world rankings and a mandatory challenger to Parker. The fight was scheduled for May 6, 2017 at the Vodafone Events Center in Auckland. However, Fury suffered an injury during training which made it impossible to attend the fight. The WBO then granted Parker a voluntary title defense, which required an opponent in the top 15. Parker then competed on May 6, 2017 against the 2.02 meter tall Romanian Răzvan Cojanu (16-2-0), who had a range of 2.06 meters, and easily defeated him on points (117: 110, 117 : 110, 119: 108).

The fight against the British Fury, which was canceled due to injury, was made up for on September 24th. In the Manchester Arena in Great Britain, Joseph Parker was able to successfully defend his WBO world title a second time. Unlike the Romanian Cojanu, however, it was only enough for a majority decision against Fury. (114: 114, 118: 110, 118: 110)

The end of undefeated

At the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff , Parker lost his WBO world champion belt in a unification title to the British Anthony Joshua on March 31, 2018, clearly and unanimously on points. Around 78,000 spectators saw a boring fight in stages. In this fight, in addition to Parker's WBO title, the IBF and WBA (Superchampion) world titles were at stake.

On July 28, 2018, he was unanimously defeated by the British boxer Dillian Whyte on points (113-112, 115-110, 114-111) and thus suffered the second defeat in his career as a professional. In addition, it was the first time in his entire professional career that Parker fell to the ground with a regular hit and was counted in.

List of professional fights

27 wins (21 knockout wins), 2 losses , 0 draws
year	Day	place	opponent	Result for Parker
2012	5th July	SkyCity, Auckland , New Zealand	Dean Garmonsway professional debut	Victory / TKO 6th round
	November 9th	The Trusts Arena, Auckland, New Zealand	Terry Tuteru	Victory / KO 2nd round
	15th December	The Trusts Arena, Auckland, New Zealand	Richard Tutaki	Victory / TKO 3rd round
2013	February 28	Hornby Working Men's Club, Christchurch , New Zealand	Dontay Paty	Victory / TKO 1st round
	May 16	Hyatt Regency, Irvine , USA	Brice Ritani-Coe	Points victory (unanimous) / 6 rounds
	June 13th	The Trusts Arena, Auckland, New Zealand	Francois Botha	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	October 10th	The Trusts Arena, Auckland, New Zealand	Afa Tatupu New Zealand Championship	Victory / TKO 2nd round
2014	26th of April	Koenig-Pilsener-Arena , Oberhausen , Germany	Marcelo Luiz Nascimento PABA Interim Championship	Victory / TKO 7th round
	5th July	Vodafone Events Center, Auckland, New Zealand	Brian Minto PABA & WBO Oriental Championship	Victory / TKO 7th round
	August 9	Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, Bethlehem , USA	Keith Thompson	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	October, 16th	The Trusts Arena, Auckland, New Zealand	Sherman Williams PABA & WBO Oriental title defense	Points victory (unanimously) / 10 rounds
	6th of December	Claudelands Arena, Hamilton , New Zealand	Irineu Beato Costa Junior PABA & WBO Oriental title defense	Victory / KO 4th round
2015	5. March	Vodafone Events Center, Auckland, New Zealand	Jason Pettaway PABA & WBO Oriental title defense	Victory / TKO 4th round
	June 13th	Arena Manawatu, Palmerston North, New Zealand	Yakup Saglam PABA & WBO Oriental title defense	Victory / TKO 2nd round
	August 1st	Southland Stadium, Invercargill , New Zealand	Bowie Tupou PABA & WBO Oriental title defense, WBO Africa & vacant OPBF championship	Victory / KO 1st round
	15th October	The Trusts Arena, Auckland, New Zealand	Kali Meehan PABA, WBO Oriental, WBO Africa & OPBF title defense, vacant EPBC & Oceania championship	Victory / TKO 3rd round
	December 5th	Claudelands Arena, Hamilton, New Zealand	Daniel Martz WBO Oriental title defense	Victory / TKO 1st round
2016	January 23	Faleata Sports Complex, Apia , Samoa	Jason Bergman WBO Oriental title defense	Victory / TKO 8th round
	May 21	Vodafone Events Center, Auckland, New Zealand	Carlos Takam	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	21 July	Horncastel Arena, Christchurch, New Zealand	Solomon Haumono WBO Oriental & OPBF title defense	Victory / TKO 4th round
	October 1	Vodafone Events Center, Auckland, New Zealand	Alexander Dimitrenko WBO Oriental title defense	Victory / KO 3rd round
	10th of December	Vector Arena , Auckland, New Zealand	Andy Ruiz vacant WBO world championship	Point victory (majority decision) / 12 rounds
2017	May 6th	Vodafone Events Center, Auckland, New Zealand	Răzvan Cojanu WBO title defense	Points victory (unanimous) / 12 rounds
	September 23rd	Manchester Arena , Manchester, UK	Hughie Fury WBO title defense	Point victory (majority decision) / 12 rounds
2018	March 31	Principality Stadium , Cardiff, UK	Anthony Joshua WBO / WBA / IBF / IBO Title Association	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	July 28th	The O2 Arena , London , UK	Dillian Whyte WBC Silver & Vacant WBO International Championship	Loss of points (unanimously) / 12 rounds
	15th December	Horncastle Arena, Christchurch , New Zealand	Alexander Flores	Victory / KO 3rd round
2019	June 29th	Dunkin Donuts Center , Providence	Alex Leapai	Victory / TKO 10th round
2020	February 29th	The Ford Center at The Star, Frisco	Shawndell Winters	Victory / TKO 5th round
Source: Joseph Parker in the BoxRec database

Web links

• Joseph Parker in the BoxRec database
• Strefa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patrick Czerny: Joseph Parker wins with a majority decision over Hughie Fury. In: Boxing1. September 24, 2017. Retrieved September 24, 2017 . 
2. ^ MMA Kingdom: Joseph Parker Down for the first time in his career from Whyte. In: Youtube. July 28, 2018, accessed July 29, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Tyson Fury vacant	Heavyweight Boxing Champion ( WBO ) December 10, 2016 - March 31, 2018	Anthony Joshua