Cruiserweight and Heavyweight thread.

Yoka has three offers on table he has not joined anyone yet.Joyce is staying in amateurs for the time being.

 

Kean defeated Yoka with one arm,intresting.http://www.torontosun.com/2016/11/10/boxer-simon-kean-is-tough-around-the-edges

 

Nowember 6 article about Yoka:
For Tony Yoka, the victory also had the smell of revenge after losing in the first round at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

Finally, by allowing France to hang a new medal at the Olympics, Tony Yoka follows in the footsteps of his illustrious predecessors, Paul Fritsch (67 kg - JO of Antwerp of 1920), Jean Despeaux (75 kg - Berlin 1936), Roger Michelot (81 kg - Olympic Games of Berlin 1936) and Brahim Asloum (48 kg - Olympic Games of Sydney 2000), as well as Estelle Mossely.

Tony Yoka, promising results.

When he was just 17, Tony Yoka made a name for himself when he became the French Junior Champion in 2009. From then on, nothing stops this seed of champion. A bronze medalist at the European Junior Championships in 2009, the following year he became Junior World Vice-Champion and was the winner of the Youth Olympic Games.

After winning the World Series of Boxing with Paris United in 2011 and having participated in the London Olympics, he is the 2012 champion of France, a feat reiterated in 2014. Finally, in 2015, Tony Yoka wins a bronze medal in European games, before passing APB boxer then finishing amateur world champion in the heavyweight category.

Tony YokaTony Yoka, a new star in underprivileged neighborhoods.

Tony Yoka, a native of the La Noé neighborhood, about forty kilometers from Paris, in the town of Chanteloup-les-Vignes, is interested in boxing, encouraged by his father Victor Yoka, Former professional boxer.

After his many successes, Tony Yoka has become today a true symbol for the young people of this city of the 78 whose reputation is too often tarnished. In particular, her victory at the 2016 Olympics should give even more strength and hope to all her young people who dream of a better life.

Ultimate moment of emotion, on his return to France to celebrate his victory with the inhabitants of his district, a hundred children awaited him, with for background music "Eye of the tiger", famous title excerpt of the episode 3 of "Rocky".

Tony Yoka, the French champion who packs up the promoters

While enjoying well-deserved holidays with his companion Estelle Mossely in Thailand, after his victory at the Olympics, the French and foreign promoters are racing for the new tricolor boxing star Tony Yoka.

First to release the checkbook, the Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko has proposed 1 million euros so that Tony Yoka decides to sign in his company K2 Promotions.

Anxious not to be overcome by the events, the Americans have responded in turn via the promoter Al Haymon, making an offer far exceeding the 1 million euros.

Yet and despite all this enthusiasm, it may well be that Tony Yoka continues in France so as not to burn too quickly the stages. Sébastien Acariès, 31-year-old promoter, son of Michel Acariès and head of Univent, could be on the spot.

However, if he did not sign in the United States, nevertheless Tony Yoka could well go on the other side of the Atlantic in Los Angeles, participating in a future reality show with Sylvester Stallone.

Tony Yoka, a symbol of the revival of French boxing

They are 6, 6 boxers to have won medals at the last Olympic Games that took place in Rio this summer, 6 to have shown that French boxing did not die quite the opposite, out of the 10 boxers engaged, Half came back with a trophy. Never in the history of the Olympic Games, France had won so many medals in this discipline.

This series of victories, the French largely owe it to the current qualities of French boxing, an exceptional team spirit, exemplary behavior on the rings and a strong rage to defeat.

After the summer explosion, boxing clubs fueled in the hexagon driven by the success of the tricolor boxers and by the gold medalist Tony Yoka.

Faced with this growing enthusiasm, the media as soon as the autumn again looked at this sports discipline and in particular Canal +. In October, the chain encrypted its first big boxing night of the Season, at the Sports Palace Robert Charpentier, Issy-les-Moulineaux, under the title "La relève".

On the heels of the results of the Olympic Games, Thierry Braillard, secretary of state for sports, announced the creation of a professional boxing league in 2017. An idea and criticized by Fabrice Tiozzo on the lack of fighting of boxers, So that French boxers can live out their sport.
http://www.streetnsports.fr/tony-yoka-un-futur-grand-en-5-points/

 

K2 is one of the 3 offers but nothing more.

 

First to release the checkbook, the Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko has proposed 1 million euros so that Tony Yoka decides to sign to his company K2 Promotions.

 

Anxious not to be overcome by the events, the Americans have responded in turn via the promoter Al Haymon, making an offer far exceeding the 1 million euros.

 

Joe Joyce about his future:

The big decision he faces is whether to turn professional. “I have thought about it. I’m still thinking about,” he said.

“I want to go to Sheffield [to the GB gym] as well and pick training back up there and say hello to everyone again and take it from there,” he adds.

Joyce may be 30 years old but he is already one step ahead when it comes to turning pro. He’s been highly successful in the World Series of Boxing, a competition format that pitted him against some the top operators in AIBA boxing over the course of five rounds. He had sixteen five-rounders he won 14, stopping many, over high standard opposition. Of the two WSB losses one of those was against Olympic gold medallist Oleksandr Usyk years ago. The other came more recently against Russia’s Maxim Babanin. It’s a indicator that he could certainly be fast-tracked as a professional.
http://www.boxingnewsonline.net/joe-joyce-on-his-controversial-olympic-final/

 

7 nowember article:Social project "Fizkult-Ur" was first launched in Kostanay on 7 November. Mentor for pupils spoke a native of Kostanay region, the two-time Olympic bronze medalist in Rio - boxer Ivan Dychko;http://alau.kz/bronzovyj-prizyor-olimpiady-ivan-dychko-stal-fizrukom.

 

http://www.boxingnews24.com/2016/10...-championships-get-underway-saint-petersburg/

 

Dychko will stay in amateurs it seems.Medzhidov will retire soon most likely.Aleksandr Egorov will make his pro debut in December in the cruiserweight division.Former WSB fighter Ruslan Murstaev had 2 in the pro ranks already.