He fell very, very low. Exactly two years ago, Tony Yoka came down in tears from the ring in the center of Roland-Garros, unable to touch the Belgian Ryad Merhy who, since then, has hardly sparked. Touched, sunk, criticized, he was completely lost between the ropes as in his life.
This third defeat in a row seemed to sound the death knell for his dreams and his credibility with a view to a world title. “Continuing like that was no longer possible and my career would certainly have ended shortly after if I had changed nothing,” whispers, with hindsight, the Olympic heavyweight champion in Rio, almost ten years ago.
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