Before the Joseph Parker vs. Fabio Wardley fight, the latter remembered watching the Kiwi face Anthony Joshua. The two were in different positions in their career back then. Who would have thought fate would bring them together like this? But when fate did, Parker, WBO interim heavyweight champion at the time, came into the Saturday night fight as a heavy favorite to win. That’s what gave boxing journalist Chris Mannix the confidence to say what he said.

“This is the safest bet you can make in recent heavyweight championship fight history,” Mannix told Sergio Mora a day before the fight on DAZN’s The Fighter vs. Writer podcast episode 29. “If you’ve got a savings account… If you’ve got a child’s tuition… If you’ve got one bet to save your life, put it on Joseph Parker.” To Mannix

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