Heavyweight boxer Lupesoliai Joseph Parker is happy to be back in Samoa – and has a big announcement planned.
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He landed in the country yesterday afternoon, with his coach Kevin Barry and Dave Letele “Brown Buttabean”. Speaking to the media yesterday, Lupesoliai said he intended to catch up with family and make a major announcement later in the week.
“We are here to make a big announcement on Thursday in regards to the fight in January next year and hopefully everyone could come along.”
Lupesoliai said it was his coach’s idea to have a fight in Samoa.
“Kevin decided to bring us here and we are happy with it so it’s a great feeling to be able to come here and fight in front of all Samoans,” he said. “We have a lot of things we need to do like the media commitment visiting our sponsors and trying to organize everything for next year.”
Asked how he felt about his fight against Kali Meehan, Lupesoliai said it all came down to training hard and eating healthy. “The fight was good and we trained hard and Kevin taught me a lot of things and it was a great result and we are happy now that we are moving on to the next fight,” he said.
“I have one more fight left and that will be in December then we have to go back to Vegas after this to train hard and prepare and hopefully get a good opponent and get ready for the Samoa fight in January.
“Thank you Samoa for your support.”
Coach Kevin Barry said having Parker fight in Samoa was something he fully supported.
“Joseph has been living with me for nearly three years now in Las Vegas and so many times he said to me that he cannot wait to bring me to Samoa one day to see the family home,” he said.
“I have always said to him that this is something that I really wanted to do and when we [got the] opportunity of being able to put a fight together for Samoa, [this] is something that I very much wanted for Joseph and his parents and the people of Samoa.
“I thought it would be a great occasion to have the champion Joseph Parker fighting here on their island. “Everybody saw him fight last week against Kali Meehan and he now has seven regional titles and he has improved so much in the last couple of years. “He is the youngest fighter in the world top ten and it won’t be too long in the future that we will be looking for a really good fight for him to get to fight the number one positional for the world title sometime over the next couple of years.”
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