On the evening of April 10, Beijing time, Parker, the former official WBO world boxing champion and the current WBO interim world boxing champion, uploaded another well-crafted short video through Twitter, in which Parker "repeats his old tricks" and continues to call out to his former old enemy, and this time his target is the former two-time heavyweight boxing champion Joshua.
Fans who follow Parker know that he has recently called out Joyce and White in succession, Joyce has knocked out Parker in 11 rounds, and White narrowly defeated Parker by 12 rounds of points, and Parker also had a WBA/IBF/WBO unified fight with Joshua in 2018, and the two sides fought for 12 rounds, Joshua won two 118-110 and one 119-109, bringing together the three major organizations of the heavyweight division.
In this video, Parker extracts the best clips of his confrontation with Joshua, and also incorporates the picture of him beating Wilder and Zhang Zhilei, and at the end of the video, he also shows Joshua's cartoon image, the meaning of ridicule is very obvious, and it seems that Parker is in a good mood.
It should be pointed out that Parker has now become Usyk's legal WBO challenger by defeating Zhang Zhilei, while Joshua has relied on the courageous performance of knockout Naganno to confirm the winner of his next match against Fury vs Usyk. This time Parker publicly declared war on Joshua, in fact, it has multiple meanings, on the one hand, he wants to seek revenge on Joshua, second, he can get a higher reward by confronting Joshua, third, to test Joshua's idea to see if he intends to fight, and fourth, Parker brushes his presence again, and at the same time shows his attitude, that is, he will not immediately rematch with Zhang Zhilei.
Zhang Zhilei said in a recent interview with CGTN that his rematch with Parker is expected to take place at the end of this year, but he did not mention whether he will face Wild Wild on June 1. According to industry practice, if Zhang can beat Wilder, he can logically rematch Parker at the end of the year, but if he loses to Wilder, there will be a big question mark over whether he can rematch Parker.
It can be felt from Parker's repeated calls for different fighters that he just doesn't want to have a rematch with Zhang Zhilei in his heart, although Zhang Zhilei wants to rematch immediately, but he has no right to speak in the industry, so he can only be at the mercy of the bigwigs. As for who Zhang Zhilei will fight next and whether he can rematch Parker, let's wait and see what happens.