Is Tony Yoka the new Audley Harrison in making?

Kean is hard to place but I think Yoka is the favourite.

Yes in France he had a lot of promotion, especially around 2016-2019. My grandmother knows him for example.
The media called him and his ex-wife the golden couple in reference to their Olympic medal.

 

He's the next HW Amir Khan. Won't be the joke Audley was but will hardly have a glittering career either.

 

Yoka was an average amateur, but improved enough to become world and olympic champion.

He is a hard worker, can improve in the pros to have a nice career.

Better to stay away from the brutes though, it's his cryptonite. Joyce, Big Mak and Bakole types.

Simon Kean is a good matchup, Kabayel as well.

 

Should have fought Hrgovic in IBF final eliminator when he had the chance.

 

From memory he tried too but because he'd signed to fight Bakole he was legally obligated to fight Bakole after Bakole threatened legal action.

He probably would have lost even more emphatically to Hrgovic but at least that would of been against an undefeated, highly touted heavyweight contender rather than Bakole who's unheralded and already been beaten. Would of been easier to spin a defeat to Hrgovic.

 

‘Yes I can’ former WBF world champion Audley Harrison was probably the best self promoter of himself and a fight ever.

Harrison is Mr charisma and could convince even the biggest doubters that one day he would be the man.

No way does Yoka compare to that. I don’t think anyone in the current HW scene comes close.

The only thing that held Harrison back was his real world ability to take punches in the ring. If it wasn’t for that small detail, then he would have been undisputed champion at some point.