Martin Bakola, on the eve of Anthony Joshua in the race to fight the world titles of Daniel Dubois, says promoter Ben Shalom | Boxing news
Martin Bakola is in front of Anthony Joshua on “Front of the Queue” for a hit at the Daniel Dubois World Championship.
Dubois achieved an amazing victory when he knocked out Joshua, a former unified subtitle, at Wembley Stadium, last year.
Next Dubois will be a voluntary defense of IBF belt against Noseland’s Joseph Parker on Saturday February 2nd. Sky Sports Box Office.
After that, Dubois will need to or challenge the unification of the World Cup or make a mandatory defense of the belt.
Bakole will box Effe Ajagba in May to become a mandatory challenger for the IBF title.
Ben Shalom, Bakole’s promoter, said Sky Sports“Martin can no longer avoid. If Ephesi defeats Effe ajab in May, he will be a mandatory challenger to fight for the IBF World title, and we will immediately ask for it to make this obligation. And that fight will have to happen.”
He added: “Martin is the most terrible man in a difficult division with good reason. He will closely monitor the Dubois-Parker fight, and regardless of the outcome, I know that Martin will be convinced that he will take the title when his time is coming.”
AJ’s promoter Eddie Hearn would like Joshua to be arguing to face Dubois-Parker Victor.
“If it’s not angry, it’s just a heavyweight World Cup. It’s Daniel Dubois against Joseph Parker,” Hearn said earlier Sky Sports.
“Ay will fight again no matter who is fighting. I don’t think it’s a good defeat, which is good. You should never have a good defeat. But especially in the last few weeks, Mojo returned. Ready to start a training camp. “
Hearn continued, “But the focus has always been Tyson Fury and Relnse Daniel Dubois. I’m not really sure Daniel Dubois beats Joseph Parker. You got the winner of that fight or someone else.
“Indeed at this stage of your career, you want the biggest fights and want to try and become a three -time world heavyweight champion.”
Warren: Joshua has to win the fight
Although Dubois promoter Frank Warren points out that if Joshua wants to put himself in a position to cause the winner on February 22, he must be acceptable. First aj “must go and win the fight,” Warren said Sky Sports.
Joshua will not be sanctioned for the fight against IBF, immediately from the back of the defeat. Warren explained, “He won’t let him do it. IBF will not allow it.”
If Dubois beat Parker, Warren will also explore the potential rematch with Oleksandra Usyk in the unification of all four major heavyweight titles.
Warren believes that by the end of this year it will be Dubois, not usyk, who is the world champion in the heavyweight category.
“If he comes through this and fights against Usyka,” Warren said of Dubois, ” [he will be]. “
Aj -ow route back?
There is another route back to the world level, though for Anthony Joshua.
February 22 Sky Sports Box Office Undercard, Zhilei Zhang fights Agit Kabayel for the temporary title of WBC. A temporary list would be in the main position for a mandatory challenge against Oleksandra USYKA, which holds WBC, as well as WBA and WBO World Cup.
But both Kabayel and Zhang would welcome the competition with Anthony Joshu, while waiting for that shot in Usyk.
“I’m ready, let’s go,” Kabayel said Sky Sports. “Everything is interesting. I’m a fighter.
“I’m an athlete. I’ll just fight. That’s what it is.”
Zhang is especially eager to box Joshua. The Chinese heavyweight category lost to AJ at the 2012 London Olympics, when they were amateurs, and today, all these years later, he still wants revenge.
“Everything is possible. Aj fight is possible,” Zhang said Sky Sports, “But at the moment I just want to pay attention to Kabayel.
“22. February has my whole focus. I’ll think about who’s next after I won it.”
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