A new date has been confirmed for the blockbuster showdown between Joseph Parker vs Fa, with the world-ranked Kiwi heavyweights set to clash at Auckland’s Spark Arena on Saturday, February 27.

Previously scheduled for December, the bout was postponed after blood tests revealed Fa was suffering from a health issue that required the 19-0 undefeated prospect to undergo surgery.

The official event doctor appointed for the fight, Dr Dave Renata, confirmed Fa would recover in time.

“Junior’s surgery was a success and he is well and truly on track to be fully fit and in very good health for the rescheduled date on February 27,” Renata said.

Parker’s advisor, David Higgins of Duco Events, was pleased the rescheduled date could be confirmed.

“While the postponement of the fight was disappointing, the most important thing is that both fighters are at their very best – and there are no excuses – when they step into the ring,” Higgins said.

Higgins pointed to the record-setting 2009 showdown between David Tua and Shane Cameron, which was also delayed after Cameron broke his hand during a tune-up fight.

“Interest only grew during the delay and the fight went on to set viewership records that still stand today,” Higgins said.

“And we all saw what happened when a clearly very frustrated David Tua finally got the chance to unleash his fury.”

upcoming also big event watch Floyd v Paul boxing

Paul vs Mayweather is on course to be one of the strangest sporting events in history.

It’s astonishing to think that a YouTube entertainer with a professional boxing record of 0-1 would be taking on arguably the greatest boxer of all time, who by comparison, won 50 out of 50 pro bouts.

But hey, after all the bizarre things that have happened in 2020, perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that arguably one of the biggest mismatches in boxing history is taking place at the start of 2021.

Mayweather vs Paul At the end of the day, money talks and people will buy Paul vs Mayweather in their droves.

Even though we can all be 99.9% certain that Mayweather will cruise his way to victory in what isn’t even a professional bout, there’s still that tantalising question of ‘what if?’ in the back of our minds.

Besides, while it might be easy to completely discredit Paul because of his defeat to KSI last year, we can at least point out the physical advantages he has over Mayweather.

The internet sensation is taller than Mayweather, possesses a longer reach and is technically several weight divisions above him, perhaps upping the chance of a historic knockout.

But hey, I better tear myself out of fantasy land before I become completely lost down the rabbit hole, so let’s rewind for one second and inspect how this crazy fight actually came about.

Yes, we know that Mayweather loves a dollar bill more than most, but you can’t help feeling as though he can only lose in the eyes of the public unless he secures a sensational knockout.

Well, we’re actually one step closer to finding out the story behind the fight with Paul Floyd live fight ending his YouTube silence this week to reveal the FaceTime to Mayweather that set the wheel in motion. On the advice of his management team, Paul got a direct line to Mayweather during one of his meet and greet sessions, before proceeding to wind him up with some unabashed trash talking.

And then, remarkably, the video shows the breakneck process of the Mayweather team sending over a contract and the unbeaten legend announcing the fight on his Instagram page.

What is life – am I right!? Well, you can check out the FaceTime call down below to see the inciting incident. Do you know what? You’ve got to respect Paul for having the unmentionables to possibly speak that way to Mayweather and he’s bagged himself a massive pay packet in the process.

Sure, you could say it’s disrespectful and a bad look for boxing because both of those arguments have merits, but everything points towards a win-win scenario for the YouTuber.

Unless he’s wiped out in the opening two rounds, he can leave with his head held high knowing that he blagged himself a fight with one of the greatest boxers ever and vaguely went toe to toe.

There does come a time when legends stop looking in the mirror, and seeing someone that is decades younger than they are actually are, and that they could be an approximation of their best selves if they decided to lace on the gloves again. Evander Holyfield isn’t so much at that place, though. Holyfield is 58 years old, and his last prize fight took place in 2012. But he’d like to do it again, in a form, against an old (but a bit younger than him) rival.

After Mike Tyson met up with Roy Jones in that exhibition on Nov. 28, and then more so after it became clear that plenty of consumers still wanted to pay a fee to watch the man once known as Kid Dynamite, Holyfield started to desire a third fight with Mike that much more.

They met in November 1996, and Holyfield got the W (TKO-11) in that one. They rematched seven months later, and this time, Mike melted down, and got disqualified for chewing off a portion of Holyfield’s right ear. Evander is angling for a third faceoff, this time using not the Queensberry rules, but some form of the regulations that Tyson and Jones used at Staples Center.

Holyfield (44-10-2 fighting from 1984-2011) gave us an update on what’s what on the Ak and Barak SiriusXM radio show, which also screens on the DAZN platform.