Who is next for Tony Yoka after victory over Joel Djeko?
Yoka stopped Djeko in final round in Nantes on Friday
Tony Yoka defeated Joel Tambwe Djeko to become European Union Heavyweight champion on Friday Photo Credit: Instagram @tonyyoka
Ever since winning Gold at the 2016 Olympics, after pipping Joe Joyce in Rio, Heavyweight contender Tony Yoka has been touted as a future world champion.
Yoka (10-0, 8 KOs) took another step towards that goal with a 12th round stoppage over Joel Tambe Djeko in Nantes on Friday night to claim the EBU European Union title, the secondary EBU belt to that which Joyce stakes claim to.
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Gavin Gwynne scored a seventh round stoppage over Sean McComb to become Commonwealth Lightweight champion on Friday Photo Credit: Scott Rawsthorne / MTK Global
MTK promoted their first UK show of 2021, and it was a card stacked full of talent. Topping the bill at Bolton Whites Hotel was a Commonwealth Lightweight title clash and Gavin Gwynne took the vacant belt with an absorbing seventh round stoppage of the previously unbeaten Sean McComb.
McComb (11-1, 5 KOs) was moving down from Super Lightweight, and began as favourite, but Gwynne (13-2, 2 KOs) had twice challenged for the British title previously, losing in good company to Joe Cordina and James Tennyson.