IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois is ill and will not fight Joseph Parker this Saturday night on the Turki Alalshikh card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dubois vs. Parker is off.
A replacement is required that Parker (35-3, 23 ko) stays on the card, but at just two days notifications, the possibilities are small. Dubois-Parker was a member of Saturday’s rematch between Arthur Beterbieva and Dmitry Bivol on DAZN PPV.
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Ariel Helwani broke the news About Dubois, which is on Saturday from the card, which is a big hit for the event. There is no word whether one of the other Undercard fights will be switched to the main support.
Fans have shown very little interest in fighting Dubois-Parker during an upgrade of Saturday’s event. The reasons for this are the deficiency of the charisma two fighters and the Parker -the boring style of the fight. He doesn’t have to see TV for fans. It was a bad idea from the beginning to have Dubois vs. Parker as a major support to this huge card.
A smart solution would be to move Vergil Ortiz Jr. Against Israil Madrid into a place of compassion and move the parker down against the one who digs for him to fight at the last moment. You can’t expect much. Even if they found someone talented, would Parker agree to fight them without his hand twisted? That’s suspicious.
In the perfect world, Martin Bakola He would have been moved and was a replacement opponent to Joseph Parker to fight on Saturday night. There’s no way that Parker would ever agree to it. His chances to win against Bakole would be Slim & None, but it would be fun to look at the fans. It would be like watching a lion if it was a meal. Turks want to create more interest in sports to bring it back to what he was in the 1960s, when Muhammad Ali was on top. Bringing to Bakola would stir fans.
If the Turks want to be inventive, it can move Zhilei Zhang or Agit Kabayel as an opponent for Joseph Parker to fight on Saturday’s site on Saturday’s card. This would be required to take such a risk of fighters to counteract another fighter who they did not train for, but it would be interesting to fans if the idea was to entertain.
I was afraid. I had a really bad feeling about the Dubois-Parker fighting as soon as it was announced, and it turned out to be right.
Last time updated 20.02.2025
