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Speaker 1: Good way to win the week for Joseph Parker. So

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Speaker 1: yesterday we were telling you that Daniel Dubois fight was off,

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Speaker 1: and that was the one that was canceled last month anyway,

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Speaker 1: But in steps the WBO sanctioning body overnight, who orders

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Speaker 1: Alex Alexander Yusik to start negotiations with Joseph Parker. So

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Speaker 1: what does all this mean from Duco Joe's manager, David Higgins's, Well,

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Speaker 1: it's David, very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning mate.

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Speaker 1: Just give us a crash course on the power ladder.

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Speaker 1: Can the wto trump Paul Warren, who is Duboir's manager,

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Speaker 1: and tell them what to do or not?

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Speaker 2: Not necessarily So at the end of the day, who

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Speaker 2: Usick fights will be up to Usik, and if he

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Speaker 2: chooses to ignore order by the WBO, he'll have to

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Speaker 2: vacate the WBO title will be stripped of it, which

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Speaker 2: will leave what's called a vacant title. There'll be no

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Speaker 2: title holder, and funnily enough, that's how Joseph Parker won

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Speaker 2: his first world title of Auckland twenty sixteen, and that's

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Speaker 2: the situation for me.

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Speaker 1: Is probably more likely than not, okay, as Warren Ropable.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, he's you know, he's an old dog and

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Speaker 2: this will have happened to many times. And frankly, Joseph

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Speaker 2: spend the number one Contendangbo from Warden a year, having

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Speaker 2: beaten Zang Warren's fighter and has been interim world champion.

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Speaker 2: So Joseph has deserved this sin It's long over June,

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Speaker 2: and they might have seen it coming, they might not have,

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Speaker 2: but it is a dilemma those a bit of a

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Speaker 2: spanner in the works, so Usik will have. It will

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Speaker 2: be ultimately up to Usk whether to fight Parker. Does

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Speaker 2: he want to belt? Well, the drivers in boxing, all

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Speaker 2: the major incentives are money number one, and so I

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Speaker 2: think I, even though I'm Joseph Parker's manager, Usak fighting

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Speaker 2: Dubois does make some sense because one it's a unification,

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Speaker 2: well it was a unification until yesterday. But two it

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Speaker 2: makes a fortune that fills up Wembley in the English summer,

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Speaker 2: so there is a powerful incentive for Usick to fight Dubois.

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Speaker 2: So I'm not too excited yet, but this is very

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Speaker 2: good news for Joseph. Parker's nothing bad. He means Joseph's

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Speaker 2: right at the top, and he's been ordered five tid

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Speaker 2: by one of sanctioned bodies, and even if it doesn't happen,

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Speaker 2: he just has to be patient and win and one

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Speaker 2: more win. I think he's right there even if it

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen next.

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Speaker 1: Because it's sort of it's sort of falling to his feet,

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Speaker 1: isn't it, Because you've got Fury gone, you got Joshua nothing,

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Speaker 1: a shadow of what he once was. So you sick

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Speaker 1: dubois in Parker at it, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, you're you're you're right, And so part leads

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Speaker 2: fall on his feet, but part the other thing. He

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Speaker 2: steamrolled three of the most feared men on the planet

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Speaker 2: in the space of the year, being Johntay Wilder. He

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Speaker 2: was undogged. No one gave him a chance, then Zang

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Speaker 2: people gave him even less of a chance, more of

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Speaker 2: a bogey man. Then as Pecoli, who's never been knocked out.

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Speaker 2: He's a manned mountain, and he put them away consecutively.

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Speaker 2: And so that that's quite an unprecedented run against that

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Speaker 2: quality of opponent in modern history. And then if you

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Speaker 2: look at Joe's overall record, he's what I call it

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Speaker 2: young veteran like he's got more names on his record

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Speaker 2: big names, Joshua White, Chazaura, Tackham, Ruiz It goes on, Wilders, etcetera.

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Speaker 2: He's got more big names than almost anyone else put

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Speaker 2: to the rest put together at over age thirty three,

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Speaker 2: I think it's a very good space.

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Speaker 1: All right, we'll stay in touch and let's see we

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Speaker 1: can get something going. David Higgins as Joe Parker's manager.

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