It only took him two minutes. After several months of absence, and while he is trying to relaunch a career which has taken a serious hit due to three consecutive defeats in 2022 and 2023, Tony Yoka won a convincing victory in Lagos (Nigeria) against the German Patrick Korte.
It must be said that the 41-year-old boxer, who had a record of 23 victories, 1 draw and 5 defeats, must have been a bird for the cat Yoka. The result shows him with a devastating right uppercut that sent Korte to the mat. Staggering when getting up, he was finally stopped by the referee.
This success should mark a new start for the Olympic champion from Rio in 2016. “I am arriving, at 33, in my best years in a late-maturing category,” he told us before this meeting. I know it’s complicated to explain to people who say you’ve been here for a long time and yet… They just forget that I was strong at a very young age. I think the next four, five years will be the best of my career. »
We are now expecting more important deadlines. “Franck Warren asked me to do this fight because he is organizing a small meeting. I said yes because he promised me a bigger one at the start of the year, in the spring,” announced Tony Yoka a few weeks ago. The name of Anthony Joshua is already mentioned, as is that of Joe Joyce.
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