{"id":76766,"date":"2018-12-11T19:29:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76766"},"modified":"2018-12-11T19:58:42","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T00:58:42","slug":"alexander-the-great-flores-joseph-parker-war-of-words-breaking-boxing-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76766","title":{"rendered":"Alexander \u201cThe Great\u201d Flores &#8211; Joseph Parker War of Words &#8211; Breaking Boxing News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[AdSense-A]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76766\" rel=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=76766\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-76767 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/parker-flores-720x300-300x125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/parker-flores-720x300-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/parker-flores-720x300.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Upset-minded heavyweight prospect Alexander \u201cThe Great\u201d Flores departed a week ago on a 13-hour flight from California to New Zealand to challenge former world heavyweight champion Joseph Parker this Saturday (Dec. 15) in Christchurch, New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeating Parker will get me a step closer to my goal to be the first Mexican-American to become world heavyweight champion,\u201d Flores said. \u201cI can\u2019t picture myself losing, not the way I feel. I\u2019ve had a long, hard training camp for this fight. It\u2019s really been a couple years, because some fights fell through.\u201d <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A former World Boxing Council (WBC) Youth World Heavyweight Champion, the 28-year-old Flores (17-1-1, 15 KOs) has a new lease on his pro boxing career, now promoted by Roy Jones, Jr. (RJJ) Boxing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlex has worked hard during the past two months,\u201d added Keith Veltre, CEO\/co-founder of Roy Jones, Jr. Boxing. \u201cI truly believe Joseph Parker has no clue what he is in for with him. Like I said before, Alex is headed to New Zealand for the W, and he will leave it all in the ring. It has been a huge mistake on Parker\u2019s part to overlook Alex.\u201d<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Md7RFs6fejs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On a mission to become the first Mexican-American heavyweight champion of the world, Flores has already had a significant first leading up to this fight versus Parker. He experienced his initial flight a few months ago to do media work in New Zealand to promote the Dec. 15 fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah,\u201d Flores explained, \u201cthat was my first flight. It took 13 hours, but I slept five or six hours, so it wasn\u2019t too bad, other than being a little cold there. New Zealand is a beautiful country. The only thing I really need to acclimate to is the 20-hour time difference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not concerned about fighting Parker there. I know I\u2019m the underdog, but I had to take advantage of this opportunity. We were supposed to fight November 24th, so I had already waited a long time for a fight like this. At the end of the day it\u2019s just going to be me and him in the ring. I\u2019m going there to win, I see myself knocking him out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker (24-2, 18 KOs) is coming off back-to-back losses in the United Kingdom, both by way of 12-round unanimous decisions, respectively, to Dillian Whyte and unified world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. Parker captured the vacant World Boxing Organization (WBO heavyweight world title two years ago, when he took a 12-round majority decision over Andy Ruiz, Jr., followed by unanimous and majority 12-round decisions, respectively, against Razvan Cojanu and Hughie Fury. Ruiz and Fury were undefeated going into their fights with Parker, both ending in majority decisions and shrouded in scoring controversy.<\/p>\n<p>Flores\u2019 lone loss as a professional came 3 \u00bd years ago against former world champion Charles Martin for the North American Boxing Organization (NABO) title, in which Flores, who took the fight with only two weeks\u2019 notice, was stopped in the fourth round.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful Flores, fighting out of Rowland Heights, California, realizes Parker has never been knocked out as a pro, plus the New Zealander is fighting at home for the first time in 1 \u00bd years, but he is not deterred from predicting a shocking conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s going to get a little bit of everything from me,\u201d Flores forcasted. \u201cI\u2019m a boxer-puncher, but I can press the action, or stand and punch. I\u2019m tough to hit, too. It\u2019s not going the distance; I\u2019m not going down, Parker\u2019s going down.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[AdSense-A] Upset-minded heavyweight prospect Alexander \u201cThe Great\u201d Flores departed a week ago on a 13-hour flight from California to New Zealand to challenge former world heavyweight champion Joseph Parker this Saturday (Dec. 15) in Christchurch, New Zealand. \u201cBeating Parker will get me a step closer to my goal to be the first Mexican-American to become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19286],"class_list":["post-76766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-alexander-the-great-flores-joseph-parker-war-of-words-breaking-boxing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76766"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}