{"id":963445,"date":"2026-11-13T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963445\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:38:10","slug":"boxing-eddie-hearn-surprised-by-joseph-parkers-possible-title-shot-against-daniel-dubois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963445\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxing: Eddie Hearn surprised by Joseph Parker\u2019s possible title shot against Daniel Dubois"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now cleared and eager for a return to the ring, Parker has been linked to a shot at Dubois \u2013 who has twice beaten Wardley in the last year \u2013 in late January. <\/p>\n

\u201cListen, good luck to him, because I love Joseph, but I was quite surprised with the selection from Dubois,\u201d Hearn told the Herald ahead of next Wednesday\u2019s Matchroom Boxing card in Melbourne headlined by Teremoana Teremoana and Hemi Ahio.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cObviously Parker\u2019s coming off a loss. [I\u2019m] glad to see everything get cleared up with the drug test stuff, but coming off that defeat by Fabio Wardley, the guy that Dubois has beaten twice, I think Joseph can find himself quite, you know, not lucky, because I think he deserves it, but certainly a surprising pick. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut good luck to Joseph. On his day, he\u2019s capable of beating all those guys and he\u2019ll be a handful for Daniel Dubois.\u201d <\/p>\n

Hearn signed Parker to a three-fight deal with Matchroom in 2019, and extended that with a one-fight offer for his second bout against heavy-hitting Englishman Derek Chisora in December 2021. <\/p>\n

However, the British promoter told the Herald in 2022 they did not make Parker an offer after that bout, and Parker went on to sign with Boxxer. <\/p>\n

A shot at Dubois\u2019 belt would be Parker\u2019s chance at a second world title reign, after holding the same belt between December 2016 and March 2018. <\/p>\n

However, it comes with limited runway with a targeted date of January 30. <\/p>\n

The Herald reported last month<\/a> a formal offer had been tabled to Parker\u2019s camp and was being seriously considered. <\/p>\n

The two were supposed to fight in February last year, where Parker would have been challenging for the IBF world title. However, titleholder Dubois was a late withdrawal and Parker instead ran through Martin Bakole, who took the bout on just two days\u2019 notice. <\/p>\n

Dubois went on to lose his title in a unification bout against undefeated Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who has been an undisputed heavyweight and cruiserweight champion. <\/p>\n

Hearn further clarified it wasn\u2019t just the lengthy layoff for Parker that made him a surprise choice for Dubois. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think not just after the layoff, but after the defeat as well. He got stopped in that fight against Fabio Wardley,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cSo to come back into a world championship fight after the layoff is tough work, especially with the confidence and momentum of Daniel Dubois. But Joseph\u2019s a great fighter, a tough man, and he\u2019ll give anyone a good fight on the night.\u201d <\/p>\n

Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now cleared and eager for a return to the ring, Parker has been linked to a shot at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[1914,64,63,802,7504,788,7503,223065,401003,8218,531050,46677,129937,18273,230397,2174,85,297511,8821,32388],"class_list":["post-963445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-against","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-by","tag-daniel","tag-dubois","tag-eddie","tag-hearn","tag-joseph","tag-parkers","tag-plenty","tag-possible","tag-promoter","tag-seen","tag-shot","tag-sports","tag-surprised","tag-title","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963445","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=963445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}