Live updates: Joseph Parker v Anthony Joshua, heavyweight boxing unification fight

It's the moment we've all been waiting for - Follow live as Kiwi boxer Joseph Parker goes head-to-head with Anthony Joshua.

The winner will walk away with four world title belts (the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO), and likely have the opportunity to fight unbeaten American Deontay Wilder for a fifth (the WBC) to become the first ever boxer to hold all five at once.

The stakes are higher than ever, and you don't want to miss a second of it.

If Parker loses his world unification heavyweight title fight against the undefeated Anthony Joshua, it will be because he wasn't good enough on the day. It won't be for lack of effort, desire, training or condition.

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Sometimes it takes the biggest challenges to bring out the best in people and Parker believes this fight will bring out the best in him.

Heavyweight boxers Anthony Joshua & Joseph Parker both weigh-in lighter for their unification clash in Cardiff.

This, he believes, is his time to shine, and so, after a relaxed day - he says he will set his alarm to wake up in time for breakfast - Parker will take the longest walk of his life behind uncles Su'a and Rudy to the ring.

On the eve of New Zealand’s biggest boxing fight ever, we assess Joseph Parker’s chances with American boxing legend Bob Arum & Kiwi actor and staunch boxing enthusiast Temuera Morrison.

The atmosphere will be chaotic, whipped into a frenzy by legendary ring announcer Michael Buffer, and fuelled by Cardiff's notorious love of a good evening out and the knowledge that the eyes of the world will be focused on this part of the UK, at least for a short time.

The All Blacks have played in some frenzied occasions here, but nothing they have faced in Wales will compare to this - a seething mass of 78,000 people and a worldwide audience of millions.

He’s watched an incredible 120 boxing title fights around the world, so what does NZ’s greatest boxing supporter think Joseph Parker needs to do to win.

Parker, the WBO heavyweight champion from South Auckland, who turned professional only six years ago, is confident he will beat Joshua, the WBA and IBF title holder, a man with whom he has been on a collision course for years.

It will be only the fourth time in heavyweight boxing history that two undefeated champions have fought in a unification bout; the others were Joe Frazier v Muhammad Ali in New York in 1971, Mike Tyson v Tony Tucker in Las Vegas in 1987 and Tyson v Michael Spinks in Atlantic City in 1988.

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