IBF heavyweight fight

Joseph Parker's management want to fight winner of Joshua v Klitschko to unify belts

The Kiwi WBO heavyweight world boxing champion and his management are considering a massive unification fight against Joshua or Klitschko in London next August.

"Joe could be [at Joshua v Klitschko] to call out the winner for a mega-fight at Wembley in the late summer to unify the belts," Duco Events director David Higgins told The Express. 

"That's what we want – to unify the belts and we are willing to lose trying. If the other belt holders shared our views it would fix the heavyweight division.

Joseph Parker's handlers brush off talk his IBF heavyweight fight being downgraded

The boxing world was abuzz with suggestions the IBF had turned the May 21 fight in south Auckland into one of two elimination bouts rather than a battle to find the mandatory fighter to challenge new world champion Anthony Joshua of Britain.

The theory was that the May 7 fight in Hamburg between Britain's Anthony Chisora and Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev would also be an eliminator.