Joseph Parker will fade between round eight and nine, says Anthony Joshua

• WBA and IBF champion prepares for defence in Cardiff
• If I win this fight, then I’m the best in the world, says Parker

As the pounds have slipped off Joseph Parker during 11 weeks of hard training in Las Vegas, so the pounds have come in on the WBO champion to spring a huge upset when he faces Anthony Joshua in their heavyweight unification fight in Cardiff on Saturday.

But Joshua, who likes a punt himself and made £650 at the weekend when his former opponent Dillian Whyte stopped Lucas Browne in the sixth round, is convinced the smart money is on Parker’s fire raging and then fading around round eight or nine.

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