Joseph Parker

Parker defends his belt for the second time when he fronts against Fury at Manchester Arena on September 23.

Parker's low profile in Britain – this will be his debut there – always put a question mark about this being a blockbuster fight. But Fury's inability to draw a home crowd has some perplexed.

The Manchester Arena has a capacity of 21,000 for boxing. But Fury's promoters aren't even trying to sell seats to the second tier which holds nearly nine thousand.

Parker defends his belt for the second time when he fronts Fury in Manchester on September 23 in a battle of two young unbeaten fighters.

Fury has been talking tough in the leadup to the fight and ramped that up when asked for a prediction for his victory.

"Four rounds I would say. Four rounds ... knock out," he told WOTV. 

Parker has also voiced his determination to score a knockout win and hammer home his abilities to the British market where he believes bigger fights lie beyond Fury.

Barry and Parker are back in camp preparing for the September 23 title defence against Fury in Manchester.

It will be Parker's debut in the United Kingdom which has now supplanted the United States as the hotbed of the heavyweight scene.

Parker is eager to make an impact, knowing an impressive win over Fury will be a huge step towards bigger fights and bigger money.

"We are really excited about having our first fight in the UK. We have been trying to get there for the last 18 months. We need to explode on the scene in the UK," Barry told Boxing Scene.

Parker defends his belt against Fury in Manchester on September 23.

They finally met up last month in a British promotion for the fight and the 25-year-old felt there was a tell-tale sign from Fury during their stare down.

"It's good that he believes in himself, " Parker told World Boxing News of the brave talk coming out of the Fury training camp in Lake Windermere.

"But during the stare down in Manchester last month his eyes gave him away. They told a totally different story and trust me, he's worried."

Boxing is never short of promotional stunts but the lanky Brit seems to be pushing his cause a bit too far ahead of the September 23 clash in Manchester.

He's been running around Windermere in Britain's famous Lakes District in army fatigues and now he's doing Sylvester Stallone impersonations.

Fury lined out for a training session/photo shoot at a local abattoir, doing his best to replicate Stallone's Philadelphia scene from the first Rocky movie which Fury says remains one his his favourites.

Daniel Dubois is regarded as the next big thing in the buoyant British heavyweight boxing scene.

The 19-year-old has turned his back on a shot at the Tokyo Olympics to go professional and has cruised through his first four fights with consecutive knockout wins.

But it's in the sparring ring where he has also made his mark, knocking down Joshua while helping his fellow Brit prepare for his recent win over veteran Wladimir Klitschko to add the WBA belt to his IBF title.

Kiwi Parker makes his British debut in Manchester on September 23 when he defends his WBO world heavyweight title against local hope Hughie Fury.

It will be just Parker's fifth bout overseas after an unbeaten run of 23 professional fights with his rapid success built on home performances. He fought twice in the United States and once in Germany in his early career and also had a win in Samoa.

Britain is the hotbed of the heavyweight scene right now and Parker knows this is his chance to make a statement.

Fury has literally headed to the hills to prepare for their September 23 clash in Manchester, immersing himself in an outdoors lifestyle at Windermere in Britain's famous Lake District.

Living out of a caravan, the 22-year-old is reportedly pushing himself to new limits with his fitness efforts to complement his boxing work in a local gym.

He says he's taking a lead from greats like Muhammad Ali in his bid to win a world title.

The Kiwi heavyweight has been welcomed into the camp of Floyd Mayweather Jr, who is getting ready for a big fight of his own, against Mixed Martial Arts star Conor McGregor.

Mayweather quit boxing in September 2015, with a 49-0 record, but has come out of retirement to fight McGregor, who has a 21-3 MMA record and is notorious for his trash talk.

Mayweather was not the tallest man, though renowned for his reach across the various fly, light and welterweight classes in which he has fought. He was 173cm tall compared with Joseph Parker who measured in at 193cm.

Joseph Parker may be fighting Tyson Fury's younger cousin but that has not stopped the former world heavyweight champion from taking aim at the Kiwi's UK-based critics.

Parker takes his first step towards cracking the lucrative British market when he puts his WBO heavyweight title on the line against Hughie Fury in Manchester on September 23. And it appears he has some convincing to do judging by the luke-warm reception he's received by some pundits in England.