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No one is talking about this fight but it's a title fight with the underrated boxers in the heavyweight division. How do you see this fight, who has the upper hand here between the two?

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Zhang came from 2 fights KO win against Joe Joyce, while Joseph Parker upset Deontay Wilder last month on a fight in Riyadh.
This fight is part of the 3 fights in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, but it's a title fight so it's worth discussing.


https://www.espn.ph/boxing/story/_/id/12508267/boxing-schedule
https://www.boxinghana.com/zhilei-zhang-to-face-joseph-parker-on-joshua-ngannou-card-in-march/

I think it was discussed in the [Boxing] Anthony Joshua vs. Francis Ngannou - March 9 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5480577.0) as it is a undercard. However, it's good to have a separated thread for it. And in any case, the prediction will be Zhang by KO, or Parker winning by decision in the judges scorecard. If Parker can used his speed and head and foot movement, the same that he displayed against Wilder and avoided that power punch, then he has a good chance to win and Zhang might have that gas tank in his to last full 12 rounds. But if Zhang landed his powerful left on Parker early, it might end up early. And as per odds,

Zhang - 1.44
Parker - 2.65

We've been discussing this fight in the Joshua - Ngannou fight and this is one of our discussions, although it is a fight worth discussing because it is a title fight is because it is an undercard of the Joshua - Ngannou yes it is worth creating a thread for this fight as both fighters are coming from great wins and it's a title fight
honestly, I have equal interest in this fight because, like the main header, it also has the making of an explosive fight, because both fighters come to fight when they enter the ring.

Thanks for agreeing. I saw the thread but I feel that this fight has to be broken down since it's a title fight. The fight between Joshua vs Ngannou is not a championship fight but they are popular that's why they get more attention from the fans, but these two deserve some highlights here. I'm adding a poll so you guys can also vote. Thanks for sharing the betting odds, that's important.

The battle of the underrated champion. Parker came from a big win but I'm gonna bet on Zhang as I believe he had proven himself to be a strong opponent by beating Joyce twice which he was a heavy underdog on the first meeting. Parker's win against Wilder is also huge but I think Wilder is not anymore on his prime or he was mentally affected with his lose to Fury which he cannot be as confident as he was when he's still undefeated.

It's a chess match, but both have power so I think it will not end in 12 rounds. Maybe maximum rounds based on my prediction is 10 rounds, and it's favor of Zhang as I've mentioned.

Actually Parker has more fights as per boxrec, and he is younger, looking at that he got the edge but bookies listed him as underdog.

https://boxrec.com/en/proboxer/613846
https://boxrec.com/en/box-pro/692149

We all know why Zhang is the favorite here (has knockout power), but Parker is no stranger to being a underdog as well. He have shown that with careful preparation and mental toughness he can overcome one of heavy handed boxer we have in the Heavyweight division as he upset Wilder. So this is going to be another great test for Parker on how he can flip the switch again. Not taking anything though from him, but I think Wilder is shot already and that Fury has taken out the best out of him.

So this fight might be difficult to him, as we all have agree that Zhang power can KO anyone, including Parker. The odds are fair, but I guess for those who are fans or Parker, obviously they love that kind of odds for him as a underdog.

Voted already.

This is not the first time I have seen this kind of boxing thread and I thought that there is a mega boxing thread whereby everyone who's interested to discuss it goes there to view their points but it looks like that thread is condemn or was I the one that did not see the thread and topic very well? If there is a mega boxing thread does exist then all these threads should be catapult to that thread and stop creating new topic instead nof making comments therem

Zhang possesses the power to knock out anybody so he is my favorite to win the fight by knock but if the fight goes the distance Parker will have the edge because Parker has the stamina to stay in the fight until the end without diminishing his performance.
I'd like to mention here that Joyce beat Parker and Joyce was beaten twice by Zhang by TKO so in the early rounds Zhang had the edge but later on in the late rounds Parker dominated, so Zhang by knockout in the early rounds and Parker by decision in the fight lasted.

Yes, but triangle theory though does not work in boxing. As boxer prepared differently and we all know that most of the time, they either improved from their last fight or totally become shot and no longer in their prime and can't pull the trigger.

The vote goes to Zhang, as you have said, he has power to knock out anybody and lately he has shown that and so he is a fan favorite. And it's good that the Chinese man is getting recognized from his two big win and now moving to a interim title fight. And perhaps winner could be waiting for their biggest paycheck as they could face either of the big 4 in HW division.

Parker had a perfect preparation match for this fight when he faced and defeated Wilder. Wilder is like Zhang in terms of their gifts of powerful punches. Probably the only difference is that Wilder got stronger punches than Zhang. So if Parker was able to survive and win against Wilder, he could have what he exactly needs in order to survive and win against Zhang.

But of course this is just one among many factors. Although Zhang is older than Wilder, I think he's got a higher boxing IQ than him. So Parker still has some puzzles to solve of course.

There's a discussion between these two fighters on the other thread but they are only an undercard event, it's good that we have a dedicated topic between these two fighters because these two fighters is worth discussing their strength and weaknesses because there's a possibility that the fight between the two will be much better than the main card between Ngannou and Joshua.

My pick here is Joseph Parker, beating Wilder was not that easy but he did it unanimously he took his punches counter punches and was the more aggressive fighter if he fought the way against Zhang he'd dominate the fight, but he needs to watch Zhang lightning jabs and left hook, those were the punches that paralyzed Joyce defenses.
I'd like to see the face-off between these two fighters I don't think there will be thrash talks as both fighters are gentlemen inside and outside of the ring.

I follow boxing only a little bit, mainly a fan of Fury, but this fight seems interesting. Until recently I didn’t really know Zhang but he has a pretty good record but is already 40 years old. Parker upset Wilder and his odd to win seems pretty good, so there might be some value in it. Most people on here think Zhang will win so will do some research before betting on it.

Zhilei Zhang reminds me of George Foreman after his comeback in his later years. He is quite old for a champion and doesn't have the best reflexes but he can still hit like a mule. Joseph Parker demonstrated against Wilder that he is able to handle a one-dimensional fighter with heavy hands so I see the outcome being favorable for him. The speed, age and skill advantage are all in Parker's favor. He just needs to follow a similar strategy to the one he used against Wilder.

This fight the fighters has their varied areas of strength to which if any one of them can make  much better use of it to his advantage he's undoubtedly going be the winner in the ring. For Zhilei Zhang is popularly known for his power bunch that is liken to a bag of cement thrown on you, but age is not on his side anymore than it is on Parker's and that can be an area of weakness that his opponent Joseph Parker can capitalize on as one with a young age he has the agility, the tactics and strength for endurance, we saw all of that when he faced Wilder as an underdog.

I think if Joseph can make good use of his reflexes to avoid receiving direct punches from Zhang who has a much experience than him in this fight then he Joseph should be able to win this fight. It won't be an easy fight but am putting my weight behind Parker on this one.

as posted, here's the betting odds of this fight.



if we are talking of value, I guess we should go with the underdog as he is younger and has more experience based on the number of fights. Although with the age of 40, you can also find that Zhang is an experience boxer, but I think it's is a major factor in choosing who will win especially if both are good boxers.

We could see ths fight like Manny vs Ugas, although per book, Manny was heavily favored, but the younger boxer prevailed on their fight. So maybe let's think about that too. Nevertheless, this fight is sure a firepower one.

Have you all seen Zhang's press conference he believes that his fight against Parker is and should be the real main event because the Joshua - Ngannou match is just an exhibition while his match against Joseph Parker is a title match and many fans agreed that their match should not be an undercard or even a co main event

According to Zhang
https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-news/zhilei-zhang-says-him-against-joseph-parker-is-the-real-march-8-main-event/273287

Although he has a case but Joshua - Ngannou has a lot of intrigue, curiosity, and interest the boxing wants to see how Ngannou will pair against Joshua or if Joshua will perform better than Fury who suffered from a knockdown when he fought Ngannou.

I believe both fights deserve a spotlight and the winner of their respective fights will move on for another title shot, it would be unusual if Ngannou ended up a champion before the end of the year, Ngannou a World Champion in less than 5 fights could be the biggest shake-up in boxing history.

I definitely understand his point though, however, boxing is business and they can't promote a boxers that aren't popular. Maybe Zhang has to accept the reality that although he is on a title fight, but his popularity is not as good as the main even stars. He should look at the brighter side, because Joshua - Ngannou which what is promoted will certainly capture the fans to watch and that their fight will be able to generate a good amount of money.

It's a marketing strategy, if he understands and believe that boxing is boxer, he wouldn't complain.

Zhang's is looking for some spotlight here, lol..He is on the retiring age, at 40 years old, I think most boxers have already retired at that age. We are not sure if this is his last fight, but if he lose, I think it will be. however, since he is the heavy favorite, there's a likelihood that he will win and will beat the younger boxer who beat Wilder. 

This should be clear to him. Without good marketing, even if the fight is a title fight, they will not be able to make money. And, before this fight was finalized, they all agree with the terms, so why complain?

With such a statement, I would believe he is trying to belittle Ngannou for he wants to be the next to fight Ngannou. Zhang is a real deal, he could even defeat Fury in he legitimate match and China will soon produce more fighters like him to dominate the boxing industry. Zhang vs Ngannou could be the next fight already.

But the winner of the Joshua - Ngannou fight will be the one to fight the winner of the Fury - USYK fight, so the only way that these two are going to fight each other is if both fighters lose in their respective fight,  Zhang vs Ngannou  is a pretty good fight to make both fighters are big punchers, the heavyweight division has so many possibilities and the biggest event is the unification bout between Usyk and Fury because this is the first time that we will have a real undisputed and lineal champion the last undisputed and lineal champion was Lennox Lewis.

Whoever wins the undisputed and lineal championship will carve his name as the greatest boxer in this era, there are so many stakes in that fight but before that let's enjoy these two cards which I consider to be a co-main event, not one is a undercard here.

He doesn't believe Ngannou will win because he is not a legitimate boxer, or started his career as a boxer. And yeah, he may be little him but if Ngannou will lose and he wins, it doesn't make sense if he'll fight Ngannou. What we could potentially see is that AJ vs Zhang fight, and Ngannou will slowly loss the spotlight. Remember that he was only popular now in boxing because he have Fury a hard time on his debut in boxing, and that until now people still believe that he won, but a loss against AJ will change the perfective of the people and slowly he'll be forgotten as their attention will be focus on  AJ and Zhang.


Not sure if he could defeat Fury though, but of course he is a real deal. I think he should prove himself first by defeating a popular boxer. As I've mentioned, he could potentially face AJ after the fighter if both boxers will end up victorious, so maybe after that he could fight Fury if Fury will also defeat Usyk on their match.

This is a problem for me and IMO also with the other boxing fans, we only follow the popular ones but we don't tune in to fights like this. I'd like to thank OP first for bringing this heavy weight match. It's been so long that I have watched an heavy weight match so I am no longer familiar with the heavy weight fighters on this era.

Both of us haven't followed the category for that much but it's interesting that this has been brought and that's why I am going to take a look and watch some clips of these fighters for me to have some idea on what you guys are talking about. But typically, they're just all about the exposure to add some heat to the match and make some noise of it for everyone to have an idea that this match is coming soon.

You mean you don't know the popular boxers like the following?

1-Anthony Joshua
2-Tyson Fury
3- Deontay Wilder
4-Oleksandr Usyk

These are the popular big men in the heavyweight division but not all of them are champion, only Usyk and Fury are. So they should give a chance so people will also knkow Zhang and Parker who are into a title fight. Who knows, one of these two might become an undisputed champion, although unlikely though.


He's old, that's probably a disadvantage, but he won his last two fights against a KO artist, so we can respect his power.

Yeah, but I think if we look at Wilder, he is already not in his prime when he had Parker. I mean his lost to Fury might be his last straw, because after that we've seen him self destruct and blame everyone around him including his so called customed. And that's why Parker was able to bet and dance around as Wilder can't pull the trigger and he even admit that post fight interview. But with Zhang, like you said, the more he age, the more he mature and maybe, just maybe if he can hit that one power left hook of his on Parker, straight flush, we will see how Parker can take it. And maybe this is the reason why is the favorite in this fight. Odd makers are giving Zhang to hit him with his power early and put the fight away in his favor.

Because Parker was beaten by stoppage by Joe Joyce who Zhang beat twice by stoppage on those two fights so based on the analysis and on the theory that you have to beat the man that beat the man, Zhang is the favorite to win, this fight looks even two me, I already agreed that there should be a dedicated thread for this because not only this is a title fight but its also this is a much interesting fight as the fight could go either way, it depends on who wants the fight badly.
Both fighters know the importance of the fight and they will go all out for this fight.

So far the result of the poll

Zhang by decision   - 1 (12.5%)
Zhang by KO   - 6 (75%)
Parker by decision   - 0 (0%)
Parker by KO   - 1 (12.5%)

Zhang by KO is the winner. Most of us here believe that it will happen and Zhang will dominate the fight. However, I don't consider it a big factor that Joyce beat Parker while Zhang beat Joyce twice because Parker might have improve and he gained enough confidence now after beating a KO artist Wilder. IMO, this fight is very unpredictable, two unpopular boxers which one will be a champion soon. Hopefully they'll gain more popularity after this especially if this fight will end up to be a close contest so we could possibly see a rematch or even trilogy.

I know Fury but it seems that I am just a fan of boxing with the ones that I know but don't follow the whole industry. Or just some specific weight divisions and that's why I don't know that much on this weight.

That's good to know and adds to the flavor of my research with him. While age seems to be a disadvantage but as they always reason out, it's just a number and if he's got the prowess and power at that stage. He's still got some guts to do some KOs and probably on this match. Still, I need to know more for both of them.

For this match, I'll go for their history, Parker was beaten by Joyce, and Joyce got beaten by Zhang twice, so Zhang has the motivation that if he has beaten the man who beats Parker he can also beat this guy but we have a different Parker when he fought Wilder if he can do that aggressiveness against Zhang then he has the chance to beat Zhang, but between the two Zhang is the heavy hitter and a more agile fighter and posses a good skill than Wilder so his aggressiveness might not work because of Zhang lightning jab that may stop him from moving forward to attack.
This is an interesting fight too, not your usual undercard it should be a co-main event fight.

This is hard to predict since Zhang had some unique skills when he won in his last fights and that could be a problem for Parker unless he already solved it and also prepared for working strategies like how he managed to beat Wilder last time. Overall, this is something to watch and if Parker will gonna win this one too, he might get a chance to fight Ngannou as well or Usyk and Fury for the Unification championship in the heavyweight bout.

I think the winner could elevate and become mandatories to any of those top fighters that we have right now in the division. So this is a make or break, specially for Zhang, who we haven't heard before by suddenly burst into the boxing scene with his two wins against the so called next face of the HW in Dubois. But he beat him by knockout and so the same can be said for Parker, he derail the AJ vs Wilder in Saudi. But I guess the scenario that we are looking is that Zhang by early knockout win or Parker boxing his way to a 12 round decision and avoiding those heavy bombs from Zhang.

Zhang is not popular like the big names in the heavyweight division but he is a"  (WBO) interim heavyweight title since 2023. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhilei_Zhang)" And maybe if he wins here he will become the champion. I don't know how this goes since Oleksandr Usyk is also currently the champion and if he lose to Fury, it will be Fury that will take his place. But according to the report, this is a title fight, so most probably they are fighting for the WBO championship.

I think we read already the voice of the majority here, and most of us believe that Zhang will win again. I believe Zhang has no chance against a more popular champion like Usyk and Fury, and even AJ, so most likely he will just retire while he is still ahead, but it's still up to him though.

because the two boxers Zhilei Zhang and Joseph Parker are not the top boxers. so even though the fight for the WBO world championship the echo is quiet not heard. lost to the bigmact fight tyson fury against ursyk. because the time of the match is not much different fury vs ursyk will compete in February, everyone will be more focused and watch fury vs ursyk.

Yeah, people are paying to see that match. However, they don't have the same schedule since this fight is the undercard of  Joshua - Ngannou fight, it wasn't a championship fight but people recognize them more than this title fight since they are more popular. Zhilei Zhang have to accept the reality, he needs to build his name so he will become popular, maybe next fight if he wins this, he could go for Fury or Usyk, but let's see if it will happen.

Fury vs Usyk, and  Joshua vs Ngannou .. these are the two popular matches, any fights that are on their undercard will also benefit on the number of people willing to pay to watch a big fight.