How Joseph Parker will work his way to Anthony Joshua fight

Joseph Parker vs Hughie Fury undercard

WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker has a clash with Hughie Fury inked for September 23 in Manchester, but he already has a view to taking on unified WBA and IBF boss Anthony Joshua in 2018.

Parkerโ€™s representative David Higgins met Joshuaโ€™s promoter Eddie Hearn. He told Duco Boxing, โ€œWe talked about if we get past Fury weโ€™re looking at potential opponents Dillian Whyte, Tony Bellew and even further out Joshua.

โ€œIn boxing what makes dollars makes sense.โ€

New Zealandโ€™s Parker could fight Joshua in the spring or summer of next year. โ€œFrom an Anthony Joshuaโ€™s promoter point of view, weโ€™ve got the Wladimir Klitschko fight, weโ€™ve also got a mandatory with [Kubrat] Pulev but we want Parker spring/summer of next year. We want to try to add another belt,โ€ explained Hearn.

โ€œI think Duco have a got a good opportunity in fighting Hughie Fury. Itโ€™s a fight that if it happens I think they should win and then I would stay here [in the UK], to be honest with you. I would try and knock off all the guys that would make my profile so significant that the Anthony Joshua fight becomes a huge UK and worldwide event and certainly victories over Hughie Fury and Tony Bellew or Dillian While would put Joseph in a brilliant position to earn a lot, a lot of money in the Anthony Joshua fight and put him in a position where that fight is a necessity rather than a potential fight.โ€

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โ€œObviously weโ€™re both blessed to have world heavyweight champions that we represent and obviously at some stage theyโ€™re going to fight each other. Interesting that Joseph Parker and his team are fighting a Brit next. We want to make sure the next guy they fight is one of our guys and that is Dillian Whyte, Tony Bellew or Anthony Joshua.โ€

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