Can Tony Yoka win a world title?

I don't think it is too much of a stretch to say that almost anyone CAN win one these days, given the right circumstances. And in the end, there is no prospect out there who really looks all that great, so he will have as good a chance as any due to good promotion.

All of that not withstanding, he is not that talented.

 

one of those can vs should scenarios

 

Depends what you mean by world title.

Manuel Charr has a "world title"

Although Yoka could win a legitimate won. I dont think hes reached his peak .

We are coming into a very interesting time in the HW division. The next 18 months will see a LOT of guys making breakthroughs and pushing the top guys.

Most of the top guys have 5 years left in them also

 

Watching him tonight he's more a Tyrell Biggs than a Lennox Lewis, so not for me.

 

No such thing will happen because...

A) The championships are mired in the Fury-Joshua-Wilder-Povetkin-Whyte-Usyk-Pulev-Covid quagmire.

B) Only a few heavily promoted types get the opportunity, while literally a couple of dozen good guys like Dychko, Sirenko, Makhmudov, Majidov, Nistor, etc, remain spinning their wheels.

C) The guys who are heavily promoted--Joyce, Dubois, Yoka--aren't that good.

 

I think Dubois is a pretty good fighter. It's a shame these other guys careers have stalled, theres some size and talent there to make for a really interesting heavyweight division.

 

He has talent and youth, but to me he looks like he has a long way to go.

This could be the richest division ever, and that is no joke. But it is the nature of the game. Someone has to put up the money. This is the only sport in the world where 2/3 of the talent rots on the vine.

 

I agree, so far the only thing that I can see that makes him halfway decent is that he is 6'7"

 

Not with that fragile mandible he won't. This guy's packing glass, bet on it.

 

Dubois and Hrgovic look good to me
:Edit and Wardley looks decent

 

Dubois looks good, but like he has a long way to go. He seems to telegraph a lot to me.

Hrgovic looks to me like he is half asleep.

 

He's a brutal KO waiting to happen.

 

Sure he could if the stars aligned. However, will he? Hell no!

 

Nope. He might have a trinket tho if he just kneels down before Sulaiman.