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Anthony Joshua And Joseph Parker Set For Major Bout Of 2018

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Anthony Joshua and Joseph Parker will both put their heavyweight world title belts on the line in the first major boxing bout of 2018.

Parker, 26, is placing his WBO belt on the line while Joshua, 28, is defending his WBA and IBF titles in a winner-takes-all fight, March 31, 2018.

The fight is set to take place at the Cardiff's Principality Stadium, where Joshua successfully defended his titles against Carlos Takam.

No official ring-walk information has been provided as of yet but it is expected that Joshua and Parker will take to the ring no later than 10:30 pm.

The fight will be broadcast live on Sky Sports Box Office.

No information has been released on how much it will cost to purchase the fight but it is expected to be as much as £19.95.

It will seem that Joshua has a glass chin.

Joshua got dropped by Wladimir Klitschko but he still had the heart to get up and finish the fight, I'll give him that but if I catch him and hurt him I'm not going to give him the chance to recover. I won't be letting him off the hook. If I get him in the trouble Klitschko had him in, there is no chance for him. I'll go in fast, I'll go in hard, and I'll go in for the kill. He won't be able to recover against me. There was no disrespect, said Parker.

We were just stating facts that he's been dropped. It's a fact that he has been dropped if not once, but many times in sparring. But with all these facts that we have, we have always said that he is a good champion, a good fighter and that we respect him.
We are just saying that these are his weaknesses and that's all out there. There is proof of it in the fights he's had and in the sparring, he has had. There is no disrespect there it's just that no-one seems to talk about it. But his weaknesses are there for all to see.

There is a lot of talk about me being dropped, but there have been only three times it has happened.

The first was the European Championships when only two weeks before I had been called back into the programme because I was banned from the British team. I was very unfit but I got stopped, not dropped.

The second time was with David Price when I had just come out [of] a police cell. Price is a puncher and that was down to a lot of experience. And Klitschko taught me that it will take more than a human to stop me from going where I am going. The rumours they have heard are all fake news.

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