Parker was knocked down twice in defeat to Dillian Whyte on Saturday (the first times he had been floored in his career) but almost completed a grandstand finish in a 12th-round frenzy.
"When he goes down, he gets back up," Higgins exclusively told Sky Sports when asked what he had learned about Parker, who conceded his WBO title to Anthony Joshua earlier this year.
"When he goes down, he gets back up," Higgins exclusively told Sky Sports when asked what he had learned about Parker, who conceded his WBO title to Anthony Joshua earlier this year.
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Parker and Whyte hope victory in tonight's fight at the O2 will be enough to earn one of them a rematch with the unified world champion.
Whyte was beaten in a seventh-round stoppage at the hands of Joshua in December 2015 while Parker failed in a bid to unify the world heavyweight division in a points-defeat at the Principality Stadium earlier this year.
Heavyweights Dillian Whyte and Joseph Parker are set to face off Sunday morning (AEST) in front of what will be a raucous 02 Arena in London.
Both fighters are out to prove a point, and are on similar comeback trails.
Both are among the elite heavyweights in world boxing. Both have lost just once in their careers.
And both of those losses came against current IBF, WBO, WBA, and IBO world champion Anthony Joshua.
Joseph Parker anticipated that Dillian Whyte would try and get under his skin but all the British fighter's trash and brash talk counts for nothing with the two heavyweights now set for battle in their career-defining fight in London on Sunday morning (NZ time).
Whyte has labelled Parker "cowardly" for his performance when he lost the WBO title in a points defeat to Anthony Joshua in April and claimed the New Zealander let his country down in suffering the first loss of his professional boxing career in Cardiff.
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