Duco Events and Joseph Parker held a bizarre and provoking press conference recently during which Team Parker showed clips of Anthony Joshua getting dropped during fights and also listed names of fighters who have knocked ‘AJ’ down during sparring or in a ring.
The public stunt caused a backlash from Joshua’s fans and Team Parker certainly made headlines with their press conference that was also live streamed on Facebook.
Parker’s promoter David Higgins explained on Twitter that they were simply proving a fact.
https://twitter.com/D_Higgins_Duco/status/933067284955807745
Eddie Hearn gave his comments in a recent interview with Sky Sports and said that the press conference certainly did not justify Parker’s commercial value.
“You’ve got to love this David Higgins – he is absolutely off his swede. We are getting closer on a deal, but holding a press conference in a broom cupboard with a promotional video that looks like it’s been done by my eight-year-old daughter is not the one, in terms of justifying your commercial value,” told Hearn.
Higgins also commented on the press conference and kept his stance of just proving facts.
“If you actually watched the press conference, what we said was correct, serious, and pure fact,” Higgins told Sky Sports.
According to Higgins they want at least 35 per cent in order for the fight to happen.
“What Eddie should be worried about it is Joshua’s chin, not our press conference. It’s pathetic.
“Parker is unbeaten, he’s a world champion, and he deserves 35 per cent. They will pay us 35 per cent and not one per cent less, or we’ll take another fight, and we might lose, and they might fight [WBC champion Deontay] Wilder. So be the case.
“But I tell you this, Joseph Parker, his family, the trainer and me, we are united and we are adamant that’s the deal. Let’s make the fight,” explained Higgins.
Here’s the video that Team Parker showed during the press conference of Joshua.
https://www.facebook.com/officialworldboxingnews/videos/1718371904853404/
(Courtesy of World Boxing News)
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