{"id":238492,"date":"2025-10-24T21:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238492\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:49:08","slug":"parker-mean-mugs-wardley-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/238492\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker Mean Mugs Wardley In London!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">WBO interim Heavyweight champion, Joseph Parker, and WBA interim Heavyweight titleholder, Fabio Wardley, will collide tomorrow (Sat., Oct. 25, 2025) in a high stakes title fight inside O2 Arena in London, England. The winner of the fight is expected to be named the rightful contender to current undisputed king, Oleksander Usyk in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Before the two men get it on inside the ring live on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dazn.com\/en-US\/sport\/Sport:2x2oqzx60orpoeugkd754ga17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DAZN Pay-per-view (PPV)<\/a>, they took part in the official weigh in earlier today (Fri., Oct. 24, 2025), with Parker coming in at 262.4, which is 20 pounds heavier than his foe, who tipped the scales at 242.7. Shortly after, the two men took part in the final staredown before the big fight which you can see in the embedded video player above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Parker is currently on a six-fight win streak, taking out the likes of Deontay Wilder, Zhilei Zhang and Martin Bakole during that span. Parker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/24\/24473634\/wbo-orders-mandatory-title-defense-between-oleksandr-usyk-joseph-parker-boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was in line to get Usky next<\/a>, but an injury to the champion left the Kiwi in a tough predicament: Wait a long time or stay busy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Luckily for fight fans Parker decided to take on a fight against undefeated sensation, Wardley, who has a mint record of 19-0-1, with the winner getting the big-money showdown against Usyk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For more boxing news and notes click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/boxing\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WBO interim Heavyweight champion, Joseph Parker, and WBA interim Heavyweight titleholder, Fabio Wardley, will collide tomorrow (Sat., Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,43957,786,40762,785,85],"class_list":["post-238492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing-news-results","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}