Wardley feels his reputation as a knockout artist can lead to opponents underestimating his boxing skills, yet he remains convinced he will stop Parker before the final bell.<\/p>\n
“My track record of knocking out fighters is there to be seen,” Wardley says. “I don’t think I have to [knock Parker out], but I have no doubt that I will.”<\/p>\n
Parker is no stranger to hitting the canvas. He has been dropped by Zhilei Zhang, Dillian Whyte and Derek Chisora, and was knocked out by Joe Joyce.<\/p>\n
But he remains a proven world-level contender – a top-three or top-four heavyweight – who has rebuilt his career impressively under coach Andy Lee.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been operating at a higher level for a long time, and I feel like I’m only getting better,” 33-year-old Parker says.<\/p>\n
“If you look at the ratings, [Wardley’s] power is right up there. But then if you look at the people he’s fought, there’s not a lot of top-10 fighters in his list.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wardley feels his reputation as a knockout artist can lead to opponents underestimating his boxing skills, yet he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-239392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239392","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=239392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}