The South Auckland fighters are aiming for a shot at the WBO World title and the winner of this highly anticipated bout will put them on a trajectory for a huge 2021. The match-up will be a mouth-watering prospect for Kiwi boxing fans and for all sports fans starved of big events. The demand for a Heavyweight bout of this stature is enormous and the pay-per-view audience is expected to reflect that. With so much at stake for both fighters and parker vs fa fight time the previous history of Parker and Fa winning two bouts each in their amateur days, commentators are already talking about the bout being an instant classic with fans standing firmly on both sides of the ring.
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For Junior Fa, making the walk out to the ring for the Fight of the Century, in association with Stonewood Homes, will be a much less familiar position. Now 19 fights into his professional career, Fa has headlined five times, though none of those bouts have been on as big a stage as Parker has seen. For Parker’s trainer Kevin Barry, the December 12 date will be telling of where Fa is in his career. “You don’t really know until you step out and that big light is on you how you’re going to react,” Barry explained. “Now, we knew very, very early in Joseph Parker’s career – the sixth fight against Francois Botha, where he was fighting a guy who was at the end of his career, parker fa fight stream but Joe was at the beginning of his – and he walked out to headline a pay-per-view card in New Zealand in his sixth fight with the swagger of a hardened professional. Since then, he’s just grown and grown and grown. Joe has headlined 15 pay-per-view cards in New Zealand. In his career of 29 fights, 23 times he has been the lead act on a pay-per-view card. Parker vs Fa live stream "We know what Joseph Parker does when the big lights come on. We don’t know how Junior Fa is going to perform under those lights. But one thing we do know, this is a massive opportunity for Junior Fa. This is a life changing opportunity for him, so I believe we will see nothing like we’ve seen before – we’ll see the very best Junior Fa has to offer.” The Las Vegas-based Barry has returned to New Zealand to help with Parker’s preparations for the bout which many boxing fans in the country have long believed would one day eventuate. It will be the first time in Barry and Parker’s partnership that they have prepared for a fight in New Zealand. In the past, when they have a date in New Zealand they will arrive a couple of weeks beforehand for the back end of their preparation.