Present as a sponsor at Rugby Night this Monday in Paris, Tony Yoka returned to the clash between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua. Asked after the ceremony, the gold medalist at the 2016 Olympic Games took the opportunity to express his admiration for Usyk's boxing technique against Joshua.
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It was a very nice boxing fight, between two great champions. Boxing has spoken. Few people expected Usyk to be this level. But he showed that technique was superior to brute force. It was a very nice boxing lesson he gave us. It's hard to imagine Joshua beating him on the rematch.
»He confided to the microphone of RMC.
Unbeaten in 11 fights, Tony Yoka is gaining ground and believes that he is no longer very far from the top 5 in the world.
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There are a lot of people in the top 5, the top 10. These are opponents that I want to box.
Today, I am number 15 in the world.
We are getting closer and closer to those ranks, to those fights.
Seeing that, I tell myself that I have all my chances, that I am not far at all.
We can see the gaps that both have.
I'm pretty confident.
We are not very far from being able to fight like that.
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