Joseph Parker trains ahead of his world title fight with Anthony Joshua. Photo / Duco
Kiwi heavyweight Joseph Parker has taken part in his first big training session since arriving in London for next month's world heavyweight title fight against Anthony Joshua in Cardiff.
Parker did 16 rounds of various sparring techniques today after some light sessions since arriving in the weekend. His trainer Kevin
Barry said the plan was to get the blood flowing after arriving in the weekend.
"Today's our first workout and what I needed to do today was to get the blood flowing, get a good sweat up. Joe's drunk a lot of water in the last couple of days so I want to get some of that water weight off him.
"We're looking to do our normal four rounds of shadow. I'll probably hold pads with him for six rounds, we'll go over the same punch combinations that we've been working on for the last two months, I will probably get him to do between four and six on the heavy bag, a couple of rounds of rope so I'm looking to do probably 16 rounds of boxing training today.
