When Joseph Parker was slated to face Daniel Dubois in the heavyweight co-main event to Artur Beterbiev's rematch with Dmitry Bivol, there was a clear narrative: two men who have risen from their ...

Martin Bakole has stepped in at 48 hours notice to fight Joseph Parker on the Beterbiev vs Bivol undercard this weekend in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. News broke late on Thursday night that Daniel Dubois ...

Joseph Parker will face late-replacement Martin Bakole on Saturday night in the co-main event of the "Last Crescendo" card in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Parker's original opponent, IBF heavyweight world ...

Joseph Parker will box Martin Bakole on Saturday as the latter replaces Daniel Dubois, who fell ill two days before his planned fight with Parker. Dubois was scheduled to defend the IBF heavyweight ...

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Joseph Parker knocked out his late replacement, Martin Bakole, in the second round to become the WBO Interim Heavyweight Champion. Parker was initially meant to fight Daniel Dubois in an IBF ...

Martin Bakole took a big risk by agreeing to step in for a sick Daniel Dubois to face Joseph Parker on 48 hours' notice. That risk did not pay off for Bakole as a glancing Parker right hand to the ...

Daniel Dubois has pulled out of his IBF world heavyweight title defence against New Zealand’s Joseph Parker 48 hours before the bout because of illness. The British fighter, who dismantled Anthony ...

Tony Bellew has given his take on the Joseph Parker vs. Martin Bakole fight. Parker was initially set to face Daniel Dubois in an IBF Heavyweight Title match-up. Dubois is the current IBF champion ...

Parker will fight Bakole on Saturday February 22 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Parker's original opponent Daniel Dubois was forced to withdraw due to illness Bakole, 31, has agreed to fight former world ...

It wasn’t the opponent he had been expecting or the meaningful matchup for which he had been planning, but Joseph Parker continued his late-career resurgence with a second-round knockout of Martin ...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Joseph Parker came to Saudi Arabia to try to win the IBF heavyweight title from Daniel Dubois. Instead, Parker has turned his attention to Congolese heavyweight Martin Bakole ...