Joe Joyce to fight in October

Having seen his sparring with Fisher, Bakole and Babic up at Stallards Gym, let alone the shots he has taken in his pro fights so far, Joyce has a granite chin but can’t help but feel he’s a KO waiting to happen at elite level. Enjoying the ride though, probably the most entertaining heavyweight out there

 

Yeah may come unstuck when he faces a real big accurate puncher.

 

Fisher delivers my meat lol

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Warren will want to keep the momentum going. I went last night and it really felt like the beginning of Joyce becoming a real attraction. There was a lot of love for him and it was a very enjoyable event/fight.

If BT give Frank the money, Tony Yoka would be a massive fight, which they can easily market as an Olympic final rematch.

Other than that, realistic opponets I would pick 1 from - Chisora, Rivas, Kabayel, Wallin,

 

Joyce is genuinely a nice bloke though. I would love to see him fight Whyte, don't think it'll happen mind.

 

Tony Yoka. And be a good narrative. The French might buy into it.

Get that French Olympian Frank signed on the card as well

 

What was the crowd numbers like?

Have seen them saying they have sold 4,000 for Birmingham already

 

Me too.

 

The top tiers were curtained off, so it was setup for around 6k. I would say there was about 5k in there.

After last night, with a good name opponent and decent undercard, I think they would sell out the 12k next time. Somebody in there said they had booked it again for late October.

 

Hughie Fury would be a really interesting one. Not sure it'd happen though. Peter has said multiple times how highly he rates Joyce, and let's face it, Hughie needs to win his next big fight. JJ would be a huge risk from their side. The Queensberry-Matchroom crossover probably blocks this anyway.

Chisora would sell bucketloads - him being there last night was interesting, could be something brewing, though he told MJP that BT couldn't afford him.

Yoka sells itself due to the Olympic rematch.

I like the idea of JJ vs Otto Wallin. No idea if likely, but Wallin's stock over here is still pretty high after the Fury bout. Not the sexiest though.

 

Well Chisora is tied up with the Parker rematch, Yoka is making it clear he doesn’t want to fight outside France and Warren not likely to work with Hearn rules out any Queensbury/Matchroom head to heads. For me , Bakole could be the fight to make and judging by their recent sparring war, it has fight of the year written all over it.

 

Yeah I think they target Charles Martin, Bakole, Kabayel, Wallin, Kownacki or even Breazeale next.

 

Isn't Bakole still with Matchroom though?

 

Not anymore.

 

Ruiz , Whyte or old man Ortiz would be good. But can't see any of these happening.