Tony Yoka’s third defeat in a row has been the subject of numerous comments since Saturday evening. If no one yet knows what the Olympic heavyweight champion in Rio will do with his future, between the desire for a new rebound while he only has one fight left in his contract with Canal or an early retirement at only thirty-one years old, the French boxer leaves no one indifferent. The latest, Cédric Doumbé, MMA specialist, did not fail to give his opinion.
“Tony Yoka, it’s complicated,” he analyzed on social networks. What he’s missing is what I said in an interview, I was talking about this mania it takes to be a boxer. I told you from the start, he will not be world champion. I know how to recognize… I saw it in his eyes, in his behavior, and especially in his boxing, that he would not be world champion. » The French fighter deepened his thoughts. “When you see guys like Deontay Wilder, guys like Tyson Fury, Derek Chisora, even Andy Ruiz… He lacks the aggressiveness, that gladiator side. We’re not there to make up the numbers, we’re not here to make a splash. We are gladiators. We go up to die. We go up to take down the enemy, that’s the project. You go up to put it out, it’s war, it’s you or him. He’s too nice. I see him a bit like a Ciryl Gane.
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Far from his ambitions for a global title and relegated beyond 20th in the world, Tony Yoka struggled on Saturday evening, with minimalist boxing despite the support of 6,000 people at Roland-Garros. “I advise him to come back, not to give up,” says Doumbé. Come back. And above all, don’t fall into the trap of taking a pancake, don’t fall into the trap of saying to yourself: ‘I need a victory, I’m taking a busted guy.’ Practice. Your next opponent will underestimate you. Train, be determined, and change your mindset. You need to get angry, get rid of what’s in your head that’s blocking you.”
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