By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing
Former WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker and WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury are training together in England and have apparently forged a solid friendship.
“We have a great relationship,” Parker told talkSPORT. “He treats me like a younger brother, his whole family looks after me. I’ve based myself here in Morecambe now. I’ve stayed in his house, I’m using his gym. I think I’ll never fight him. I’ll let him do his thing and fight everyone else. I’ll try to go another path and do my best to win the other belts if I can.”
“I’m back into training, back into training camp with Tyson. We’ve got Sonny Bill Williams here doing some training for his fight, David Nyika back on board. It’s great to be back training.”
Respect Parker’s view. In boxing you fight each other, try hurt each other. It’s not like other sport where you play against each other e.g. tennis or such sports.
I think because he will never get a mandatory shot at him anyway.
And because Fury never fight a mandatory challenger..
Yes, on top of that, Parker would get beat against Fury anyway. Typical predictable sparring match with Parker hitting, holding, fumbling around, and gassing out. Fury chops him down anyway to a boring one-sided fight. Yup, it would be a joke.
Nice to heard this kind of friendship in boxing. There are others at the present time. Could be very entertaining to read an article about this theme, with some details.
Nonsense! They offer Parker a title shot for 10 million and his love of Fury will go up in smoke!
But that’s just it… is there anyone in their right mind who’d be interested in ponying up $10 million to watch Fury beat the hell out of Parker?
Mmm…..”A fish with his mouth closed never gets caught.” Parker, with this sentence: I’ll try to go another path and do my best to win the other belts if I can.” is telling “I duck Filip Hrgovic ” because an offer was handed to him to fight Hrgovic, with the winner in line to face Usyk not Fury. Maybe he is hoping to face Trevor Bryan for the bogus WBA he unreservedly held.
More like he doesn’t want to look like he is ducking another obvious L if he happens to end up with some secondary title after Fury unifies. He looked the very definition of mediocre against a washed up Chisora. Reminds me of Tito Ortiz’s “friendship” avoidance of Liddell in MMA, where the guy who doesn’t fancy his chances overplays the friendship angle. The stuff he describes plenty of other fighters have done (training camp) and still been professionals when it came to competition. Sorry to rain on the love fest narrative.
Living under a man roof and using his facilities makes you subservient to that man.
Keeps him needy and has to stay humble incase he needs more favor from him.
How many grown men need another family to look after them? Do you wanna be the king or treated like a young brother?
He’s totally okay with Parker kids not getting the spoils the Fury kids enjoy.
Roy Jones once said never become good friends with fighters who are in your weight class or close to it. This is why. Fury is the man in this division right now. If you are a contender then your goal should be to challenge him. Nothing wrong with getting along with other contenders. You do not have to be enemies but imo close friendships like this should be avoided while you are an active contender
FURY HELPING THIS GUY OUT SHOWS THE KIND OF PERSON FURY IS… BEING FRIENDS WITH ANOTHER FIGHTER DOES NOT MEAN EITHER ONE IS WEAK… KIND OF A NICE BACK STORY TO A FRIENDSHIP… CIRCUMSTANCES CAN CHANGE BUT FOR NOW IT’S PRETTY COOL
The caps lock key is over there on the left.
Its broken
Not for a million $ ?
they are good friends no sense in fighting each other good luck to both fury and parker